---
type: "Bill"
title: "Competency in Criminal Justice System Services & Bail"
description: "The act requires the judicial department to develop a form for a court to use to notify the department of human services (DHS) of the court's specific findings when the court denies a personal recognizance bond and orders inpatient restoration services for a defendant who is in custody for a misdemeanor, petty offense, or traffic offense, and who the court determines is incompetent to proceed but there is a substantial probability that the defendant, with restoration services, will attain competency in the reasonably foreseeable future."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-041"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-041 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Judy Amabile", "Mary Bradfield", "Regina English"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c745998-d3bf-44b1-b29f-835bab4b8a1c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-041"
source_hash: "020adbb1597b916d3267a2ff57caa74c40357f297bcffc1573c838ba49bd3d69"
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 25-041 (2025A) — Competency in Criminal Justice System Services & Bail

The act requires the judicial department to develop a form for a court to use to notify the department of human services (DHS) of the court's specific findings when the court denies a personal recognizance bond and orders inpatient restoration services for a defendant who is in custody for a misdemeanor, petty offense, or traffic offense, and who the court determines is incompetent to proceed but there is a substantial probability that the defendant, with restoration services, will attain competency in the reasonably foreseeable future.

## 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_sb041_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/26/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_s_jud_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_h_jud_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_041_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_041_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **20–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **47–18** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
- Regina English — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+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/8c745998-d3bf-44b1-b29f-835bab4b8a1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).