---
type: "Bill"
title: "Possession of Weapon by Previous Offender Crimes"
description: "Under current law, it is illegal for a person to possess a firearm if the person was convicted of or adjudicated for certain felonies. The act adds motor vehicle theft in the first degree to the list of violations that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1171"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1171 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Boesenecker", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Nick Hinrichsen", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f8915d6-e9a7-47c0-88fe-4f924914c9ee"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1171"
source_hash: "8281b6692aeebcd0c1781cfcc153cc1851a4a1a89d0e126f06c13c1ab40f2eec"
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 25-1171 (2025A) — Possession of Weapon by Previous Offender Crimes

Under current law, it is illegal for a person to possess a firearm if the person was convicted of or adjudicated for certain felonies. The act adds motor vehicle theft in the first degree to the list of violations that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm.

## 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_hb1171_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_s_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1171_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/19/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1171_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **22–39** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **36–27** (pass) · lower
- ADHERE — **34–31** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **26–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andrew Boesenecker — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- R. Armagost — cosponsor (person)
- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Adherence - Result was to Recede
- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Adhere
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T07:00:00+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/3f8915d6-e9a7-47c0-88fe-4f924914c9ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).