republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-083.md

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Bill	Prohibit Courthouse Civil Arrest	The act protects an individual from civil arrest while the person is present at a courthouse or on its environs, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding. A judge or magistrate may issue a writ of protection to prohibit a civil arrest, but a writ of protection is not required for the protection to apply.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-083	Colorado SB 20-083 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod	9	13	6	2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c55470d4-dbbc-433e-a5dc-3ce5ba30b23f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-083	569f938f0ad4a61932b94dc29f0d710c4b2a898d47afb9ca11c14077b377d892	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-083 (2020A) — Prohibit Courthouse Civil Arrest

The act protects an individual from civil arrest while the person is present at a courthouse or on its environs, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding. A judge or magistrate may issue a writ of protection to prohibit a civil arrest, but a writ of protection is not required for the protection to apply.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/17/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/30/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/05/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/23/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 30–35 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 29–35 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 19–13 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 30–35 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 32–33 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2020-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c55470d4-dbbc-433e-a5dc-3ce5ba30b23f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).