---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offender Release from Custody"
description: "Under current law, a sheriff may allow an individual to choose to stay in jail overnight after release when extenuating circumstances exist. The act makes facilitation of a connection to a service provider an extenuating circumstance. If an individual chooses to remain in jail overnight, the individual must be released by 10 a.m. the next morning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-190"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-190 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Bacon", "Julie Gonzales", "Matt Ball", "Matt Soper"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ee9ca03-1aca-42ac-8ee8-c45d7acf1000"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-190"
source_hash: "68dafc1c4dc76994f1dd9d08b8ee01459690a3dd497da1ea6b68790c06186d92"
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 25-190 (2025A) — Offender Release from Custody

Under current law, a sheriff may allow an individual to choose to stay in jail overnight after release when extenuating circumstances exist. The act makes facilitation of a connection to a service provider an extenuating circumstance. If an individual chooses to remain in jail overnight, the individual must be released by 10 a.m. the next morning.

## 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_sb190_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_h_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_190_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_190_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **21–44** (fail) · lower
- AMD — **18–44** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–21** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **44–21** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **21–11** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Matt Ball — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T07:00:00+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/3ee9ca03-1aca-42ac-8ee8-c45d7acf1000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).