---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regional County Jail Approach"
description: "Current law requires each county with a population of 2,000 or more to maintain a county jail. The act exempts a county from the requirement to maintain a county jail if the county has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with another county to operate a multijurisdictional county jail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1050"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1050 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judy Amabile", "Lorena García"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e74f664f-64d8-486a-a714-c9e59bb9f4ba"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1050"
source_hash: "d703d80cc3b0d3bdd1958bf5da18b9eb5d5ffaaf0e9e2ee08ab43b8652fc441d"
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 25-1050 (2025A) — Regional County Jail Approach

Current law requires each county with a population of 2,000 or more to maintain a county jail. The act exempts a county from the requirement to maintain a county jail if the county has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with another county to operate a multijurisdictional county jail.

## 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_hb1050_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1050_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1050_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **59–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2025-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T07:00:00+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/e74f664f-64d8-486a-a714-c9e59bb9f4ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).