---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals"
description: "The Colorado supreme court approved the licensure of legal paraprofessionals (LLPs), which allows LLPs to represent clients and perform certain types of legal services related to domestic relations matters, including:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1291"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1291 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Dylan Roberts", "Junie Joseph", "Regina English"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/235dea91-90dd-45be-8c53-7c9c966b93e0"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1291"
source_hash: "e59b12f3cb8bd3bc96a859863f98d93a088dd799b13aefe3a242bf2997f82247"
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 24-1291 (2024A) — Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals

The Colorado supreme court approved the licensure of legal paraprofessionals (LLPs), which allows LLPs to represent clients and perform certain types of legal services related to domestic relations matters, including:

## 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_hb1291_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1291_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/29/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1291_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **58–4** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **58–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **62–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Junie Joseph — primary (person)
- Regina English — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2024-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/19/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+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/235dea91-90dd-45be-8c53-7c9c966b93e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).