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Bill	Child Sex Assault Pattern Offense Place Of Trial	In current law, several sex-assault-on-a-child crimes are designated 'pattern' offenses, meaning that the defendant has a pattern of sexually assaulting the same child repeatedly. When such assaults occur in more than one jurisdiction, the district attorney in each such jurisdiction must prosecute a case for the incident that occurred in his or her jurisdiction. The bill allows a prosecutor to charge and bring a pattern-offense case for all such assaults in any jurisdiction where one of the acts occurred. The bill allows the prosecution of a defendant charged with sex-assault-on-a-child pattern offense or sex-assault-on-a-child-in-a-position-of-trust pattern offense to be tried:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1109	Colorado HB 17-1109 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Jessie Danielson John Cooke Rhonda Fields Terri Carver	12	14	5	2017-01-20T07:00:00+00:00	2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/94da7ec3-25ee-4438-9f31-c00ed9eb56a5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1109	783717860c84b390360ef4bc170542a6afb7c15c3f576b2129a77ac041ecbde5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1109 (2017A) — Child Sex Assault Pattern Offense Place Of Trial

In current law, several sex-assault-on-a-child crimes are designated 'pattern' offenses, meaning that the defendant has a pattern of sexually assaulting the same child repeatedly. When such assaults occur in more than one jurisdiction, the district attorney in each such jurisdiction must prosecute a case for the incident that occurred in his or her jurisdiction. The bill allows a prosecutor to charge and bring a pattern-offense case for all such assaults in any jurisdiction where one of the acts occurred. The bill allows the prosecution of a defendant charged with sex-assault-on-a-child pattern offense or sex-assault-on-a-child-in-a-position-of-trust pattern offense to be tried:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.005 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment L.006 (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (03/03/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Final Act (03/29/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Introduced (01/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA1 (03/01/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (03/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (03/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (03/23/2017) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1109, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0. — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment A). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment B). The motion failed on a vote of 5-6. — 5–6 (fail) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1109 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment C). The motion passed on a vote of 10-1. — 10–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Terri Carver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2017-01-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94da7ec3-25ee-4438-9f31-c00ed9eb56a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).