republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1038.md

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Bill	Right To Counsel For Youth	Current law requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem for children or youth in dependency and neglect cases. The act requires that client-directed counsel for youth be appointed for children or youth 12 years of age or older to provide specialized client-directed legal representation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1038	Colorado HB 22-1038 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Dominick Moreno Lindsey Daugherty Tonya Van Beber	10	14	4	2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00	2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0ae38c1f-3b76-409e-928a-140a669074f3	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1038	a76adf48bd05da71005e8d820ba3d8d0d313a39767f2e27c200ebe7319b03acc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1038 (2022A) — Right To Counsel For Youth

Current law requires the appointment of a guardian ad litem for children or youth in dependency and neglect cases. The act requires that client-directed counsel for youth be appointed for children or youth 12 years of age or older to provide specialized client-directed legal representation.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/17/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/22/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)
• Tonya Van Beber — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2022-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ae38c1f-3b76-409e-928a-140a669074f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).