republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1225.md

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Bill	No Monetary Bail For Certain Low-level Offenses	Defendant pretrial release - no monetary bond for low level offenses. Under current law, the court is required to release a person charged with a class 3 misdemeanor, petty offense, or unclassified offense on a personal recognizance bond unless certain conditions exist. The act removes petty offenses from that requirement. The act prohibits a court from imposing a monetary condition of release for a defendant charged with a traffic offense, petty offense, or comparable municipal offense, except for a traffic offense involving death or bodily injury, eluding a police officer, circumventing an interlock device, or a municipal offense with substantially similar elements to a state misdemeanor offense. The act does not prohibit a defendant's release based on a pretrial policy that includes monetary conditions if the defendant is informed that he or she would be released without monetary conditions if he or she waits for a bond hearing. The act does not prohibit issuance of a warrant with monetary conditions of bond for a defendant who fails to appear in court as required or who violates a condition of release.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1225	Colorado HB 19-1225 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Leslie Herod Matt Soper Paul Lundeen Pete Lee	9	13	2	2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/76cf7107-6298-4aad-8d4d-819e9b002d5c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1225	761c2fd8ffd5baf277afeac025d07832a470d2dcaa2db4c4648810131a7fd212	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1225 (2019A) — No Monetary Bail For Certain Low-level Offenses

Defendant pretrial release - no monetary bond for low level offenses. Under current law, the court is required to release a person charged with a class 3 misdemeanor, petty offense, or unclassified offense on a personal recognizance bond unless certain conditions exist. The act removes petty offenses from that requirement. The act prohibits a court from imposing a monetary condition of release for a defendant charged with a traffic offense, petty offense, or comparable municipal offense, except for a traffic offense involving death or bodily injury, eluding a police officer, circumventing an interlock device, or a municipal offense with substantially similar elements to a state misdemeanor offense. The act does not prohibit a defendant's release based on a pretrial policy that includes monetary conditions if the defendant is informed that he or she would be released without monetary conditions if he or she waits for a bond hearing. The act does not prohibit issuance of a warrant with monetary conditions of bond for a defendant who fails to appear in court as required or who violates a condition of release.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/21/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76cf7107-6298-4aad-8d4d-819e9b002d5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).