---
type: "Bill"
title: "Name Change to Conform with Gender Identity"
description: "Current law specifies the conditions a person must meet in order to change the person's name if the person was convicted of a felony. Among those conditions is that the person must show good cause to be able to change the person's name to a name different from the name the person was convicted under. The act states that good cause includes changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1071"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1071 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Kevin Priola", "Lorena García"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/841561b5-d5aa-4b61-9c10-5b557df812c0"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1071"
source_hash: "e1c8da27245f8b3cc6cee0dfa2594a395dad897ce3a266e501e5071b15171ae0"
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 24-1071 (2024A) — Name Change to Conform with Gender Identity

Current law specifies the conditions a person must meet in order to change the person's name if the person was convicted of a felony. Among those conditions is that the person must show good cause to be able to change the person's name to a name different from the name the person was convicted under. The act states that good cause includes changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity.

## 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/2024a_hb1071_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1071_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1071_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **43–18** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **31–28** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **40–18** (pass) · lower
- PREV ? — **41–18** (pass) · lower
- PREV ? — **44–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2024-02-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/841561b5-d5aa-4b61-9c10-5b557df812c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).