---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pretrial Diversion Programs"
description: "The act requires a district attorney's office, or the office's designee, to consider the use of a juvenile diversion program (program) to prevent a juvenile who demonstrates behaviors or symptoms consistent with an intellectual and developmental disability, a mental or behavioral health issue, or a lack of mental capacity from further involvement in formal delinquency proceedings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-006"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-006 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary Bradfield", "Regina English", "Rhonda Fields", "Robert Rodriguez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bc6dfca-1c19-431e-bddb-40d9a4bf7edd"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-006"
source_hash: "88a229a0709a5deba05cd5a6bbb952adf4d2e6286c6c8c4bbde7cca66bc244b5"
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 SB 24-006 (2024A) — Pretrial Diversion Programs

The act requires a district attorney's office, or the office's designee, to consider the use of a juvenile diversion program (program) to prevent a juvenile who demonstrates behaviors or symptoms consistent with an intellectual and developmental disability, a mental or behavioral health issue, or a lack of mental capacity from further involvement in formal delinquency proceedings.

## 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_sb006_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/21/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_006_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_006_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **53–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
- Regina English — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/14/24 - No Amendments
- **2024-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/08/24 - No Amendments
- **2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/3bc6dfca-1c19-431e-bddb-40d9a4bf7edd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).