---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicles Tows And Crime Victims"
description: "The act requires the transportation legislation review committee (committee) to analyze the issue of an owner of a motor vehicle that was nonconsensually towed because the vehicle was stolen or because the owner was the victim of a certain serious crime. The committee may take testimony and is required to make legislative recommendations to the general assembly on the issue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1217"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1217 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Meg Froelich", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5155ae50-7efb-4ba3-b417-f050e0474956"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1217"
source_hash: "f83bf4b80dc11c57112ebfeb6c402da27a382e951fcb18d7b5bee957a20b2bd4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 23-1217 (2023A) — Motor Vehicles Tows And Crime Victims

The act requires the transportation legislation review committee (committee) to analyze the issue of an owner of a motor vehicle that was nonconsensually towed because the vehicle was stolen or because the owner was the victim of a certain serious crime. The committee may take testimony and is required to make legislative recommendations to the general assembly on the issue.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_hb1217_s_tra_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/05/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/22/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/28/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_h_sa_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1217_rv2.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1217_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–16** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **27–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy `introduction`
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5155ae50-7efb-4ba3-b417-f050e0474956`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).