republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1033.md

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Bill	Alternate Defense Counsel Contracts	Current law directs the office of alternate defense counsel (office) to contract with attorneys and investigators to provide legal representation to clients who are indigent. The act directs the office to also contract with other persons who are necessary to provide legal services to persons who are indigent. The act requires that the legal services provided by attorneys and other persons must be commensurate with the legal services that persons who are not indigent receive.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1033	Colorado HB 23-1033 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Junie Joseph Said Sharbini	8	13	2	2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00	2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7055d3e2-fcbe-4f3c-81ef-b0eb2440f316	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1033	1b1212f70f48ddb241daf0dc8129af76ef242e2cddf34049bf2e025b1b4ff6dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1033 (2023A) — Alternate Defense Counsel Contracts

Current law directs the office of alternate defense counsel (office) to contract with attorneys and investigators to provide legal representation to clients who are indigent. The act directs the office to also contract with other persons who are necessary to provide legal services to persons who are indigent. The act requires that the legal services provided by attorneys and other persons must be commensurate with the legal services that persons who are not indigent receive.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/30/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (02/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/31/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (02/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (02/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 55–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Junie Joseph — primary (person)
• Said Sharbini — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 01/30/2023 - No Amendments
• 2023-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7055d3e2-fcbe-4f3c-81ef-b0eb2440f316. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).