---
type: "Bill"
title: "Failure to Appear Charges in Municipal Court"
description: "The act prohibits a person's failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge against the person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-062"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-062 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lindsay Gilchrist", "Michael Carter", "Mike Weissman", "Nick Hinrichsen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e84f0e0-aad1-44a0-8d0c-0ccd49f577fd"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-062"
source_hash: "8bd886a70da0143f47405bc950c68d46df05084b28e1a4c47d34420c2417b13b"
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 25-062 (2025A) — Failure to Appear Charges in Municipal Court

The act prohibits a person's failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge against the person.

## 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_sb062_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_062_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_062_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lindsay Gilchrist — primary (person)
- Michael Carter — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T07:00:00+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/8e84f0e0-aad1-44a0-8d0c-0ccd49f577fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).