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Bill	Lump-sum Compensation For Exonerated Persons	Current law requires the state to compensate persons who were wrongly convicted of crimes and subsequently incarcerated. Such compensation is paid in annual payments of $100,000 until the state's duty of compensation is satisfied. The bill allows an exonerated person to elect to receive the remaining balance of the state's duty of compensation in a lump sum by:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	SB 17-125	Colorado SB 17-125 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Dan Pabon Lucia Guzman	8	14	3	2017-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6c36c45c-3fe7-4810-a841-8e5eecd447af	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-125	21a9a35118e7d47c20c284359c7aa27e228b51802cf441feb0a4fc3fa6d3cbea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 17-125 (2017A) — Lump-sum Compensation For Exonerated Persons

Current law requires the state to compensate persons who were wrongly convicted of crimes and subsequently incarcerated. Such compensation is paid in annual payments of $100,000 until the state's duty of compensation is satisfied. The bill allows an exonerated person to elect to receive the remaining balance of the state's duty of compensation in a lump sum by:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/22/2017) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/28/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/23/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer Senate Bill 17-125 to the Committee on Finance. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-125 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 10-0. — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-125 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dan Pabon — primary (person)
• Lucia Guzman — 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
• 2017-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/20/2017 - No Amendments
• 2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary + Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c36c45c-3fe7-4810-a841-8e5eecd447af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).