---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand Court Reminder Program"
description: "Under existing law, the court reminder program (program) provides reminders to criminal defendants and juveniles who have been alleged to have committed a delinquent act (collectively, \"defendants\") to appear at each of their scheduled court appearances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-018"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-018 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adrienne Benavidez", "John Cooke", "Matt Soper", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbbeaff3-6818-4b00-bcf0-7f7c1802c2d3"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-018"
source_hash: "b24323ed4d149c3e33e7fde782f5c372988350a0db2f5a0d513081a06b72141b"
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 22-018 (2022A) — Expand Court Reminder Program

Under existing law, the court reminder program (program) provides reminders to criminal defendants and juveniles who have been alleged to have committed a delinquent act (collectively, "defendants") to appear at each of their scheduled court appearances.

## 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/2022a_sb018_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018sjud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_s_jud_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_rn2.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_018_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_018_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **54–11** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adrienne Benavidez — primary (person)
- John Cooke — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T07:00:00+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/dbbeaff3-6818-4b00-bcf0-7f7c1802c2d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).