republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-088.md

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Bill	Evidentiary Rules When Interference With Witness	Pursuant to an opinion of the Colorado supreme court, if a party to a criminal case wrongfully procures the unavailability of a witness, that witness's hearsay evidence may be inadmissible. The act provides that such evidence may be admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule if:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-088	Colorado SB 20-088 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Dylan Roberts Matt Soper Rhonda Fields	9	18	4	2020-01-13T07:00:00+00:00	2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a68852bc-d761-42c4-88ff-8cdc431f4a26	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-088	65dd536e55b6e43891a0220397fea86e32e0dd6242365735bcc0beb199d91a84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-088 (2020A) — Evidentiary Rules When Interference With Witness

Pursuant to an opinion of the Colorado supreme court, if a party to a criminal case wrongfully procures the unavailability of a witness, that witness's hearsay evidence may be inadmissible. The act provides that such evidence may be admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule if:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/26/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 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/a68852bc-d761-42c4-88ff-8cdc431f4a26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).