republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1029.md

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Bill	Lowering Mandatory Parole From 5 Years To 3 Years	Sentencing in the Criminal Justice System Interim Study Committee. Under current law, the length of a mandatory parole sentence for a class 2 and 3 felony is 5 years. The bill lowers the length of mandatory parole for a class 2 felony if the offense is not a crime of violence and a class 3 felony to 3 years.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1029	Colorado HB 18-1029 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Kevin Lundberg Mike Weissman	9	16	4	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b97133a6-4fad-4b15-98e9-2fa39fb58e7d	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1029	b2bf575db6baa8fdab9b59916b2b8d40960bf3558e69d80a12b91bead47ecd5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1029 (2018A) — Lowering Mandatory Parole From 5 Years To 3 Years

Sentencing in the Criminal Justice System Interim Study Committee. Under current law, the length of a mandatory parole sentence for a class 2 and 3 felony is 5 years. The bill lowers the length of mandatory parole for a class 2 felony if the offense is not a crime of violence and a class 3 felony to 3 years.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 49–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 28–6 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 50–11 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 59–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kevin Lundberg — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2018-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2018-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b97133a6-4fad-4b15-98e9-2fa39fb58e7d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).