republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-030.md

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Bill	Remedying Improper Guilty Pleas	Failure to advise consequences of guilty pleas or dismissal of charges - unconstitutionality - procedure - appropriation. The act finds that some criminal defendants who, when they entered a guilty plea in connection with a deferred judgment or had charges related to drugs dismissed under a since repealed provision of law, were not advised that there may be adverse immigration consequences that attach to the plea even if the plea is later withdrawn and the case is dismissed. These defendants did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter the plea of guilty as required by law or understand the consequences of the dismissal. The act authorizes these persons to petition the court for an order vacating the guilty plea and establishes procedures for such petitions.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-030	Colorado SB 19-030 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Kerry Tipper	10	15	3	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6dd9d5fc-4a30-4da3-a91a-9f49e37909c4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-030	55c89422c2eb9b6e1b901631d57a5249f5c781e6bfcce5e36bce31c554c528f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-030 (2019A) — Remedying Improper Guilty Pleas

Failure to advise consequences of guilty pleas or dismissal of charges - unconstitutionality - procedure - appropriation. The act finds that some criminal defendants who, when they entered a guilty plea in connection with a deferred judgment or had charges related to drugs dismissed under a since repealed provision of law, were not advised that there may be adverse immigration consequences that attach to the plea even if the plea is later withdrawn and the case is dismissed. These defendants did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter the plea of guilty as required by law or understand the consequences of the dismissal. The act authorizes these persons to petition the court for an order vacating the guilty plea and establishes procedures for such petitions.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/31/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2019) (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

• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 42–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Kerry Tipper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dd9d5fc-4a30-4da3-a91a-9f49e37909c4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).