republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1315.md

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Bill	Admissibility Of Statements By A Juvenile	Juvenile advisement of rights - accompanying adult's adverse interest - admissibility. Under current law, statements by a juvenile concerning delinquent acts committed by the juvenile are admissible against the juvenile so long as the juvenile is accompanied by one or more specified adults during the advisement of constitutional rights and during the interrogation. A court decision found this to be legally sufficient even if the adult was shown to have an interest adverse to the juvenile. Under the act, if an issue concerning the adult's adverse interest is raised, the prosecution must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the person conducting the interrogation reasonably believed that the adult did not have an interest adverse to the juvenile and helped safeguard the juvenile's constitutional rights to remain silent or obtain counsel during the interrogation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1315	Colorado HB 19-1315 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Julie Gonzales Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	10	14	4	2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e5597be8-e647-43f8-b0d7-c8f2cea23f16	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1315	8022a944ee2b0479cd067aede47104538f9736d24497a6538c3a3f079ae48ce1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1315 (2019A) — Admissibility Of Statements By A Juvenile

Juvenile advisement of rights - accompanying adult's adverse interest - admissibility. Under current law, statements by a juvenile concerning delinquent acts committed by the juvenile are admissible against the juvenile so long as the juvenile is accompanied by one or more specified adults during the advisement of constitutional rights and during the interrogation. A court decision found this to be legally sufficient even if the adult was shown to have an interest adverse to the juvenile. Under the act, if an issue concerning the adult's adverse interest is raised, the prosecution must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the person conducting the interrogation reasonably believed that the adult did not have an interest adverse to the juvenile and helped safeguard the juvenile's constitutional rights to remain silent or obtain counsel during the interrogation.(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 (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/24/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/26/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 53–11 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 56–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5597be8-e647-43f8-b0d7-c8f2cea23f16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).