---
type: "Bill"
title: "Communication Rights for Persons in Custody"
description: "Current law allows a person who is committed, imprisoned, or arrested (person in custody) the right to communicate with an attorney or family member by making a reasonable number of telephone calls or through any other reasonable manner. The act adds the attorney's authorized representative to those whom a person in custody can communicate with."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1049"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1049 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judy Amabile", "Julie Gonzales", "Lorena García"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ba4fa7e-a093-4c83-be60-c63a849f2fd9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1049"
source_hash: "ac9e4195ab6725732fa5843d1c6279d6a1879639bf229c5ddce270677c15c562"
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 25-1049 (2025A) — Communication Rights for Persons in Custody

Current law allows a person who is committed, imprisoned, or arrested (person in custody) the right to communicate with an attorney or family member by making a reasonable number of telephone calls or through any other reasonable manner. The act adds the attorney's authorized representative to those whom a person in custody can communicate with.

## 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/2025a_hb1049_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_h_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/15/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1049_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1049_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **26–8** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+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/7ba4fa7e-a093-4c83-be60-c63a849f2fd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).