republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1042.md

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Bill	Admissibility Standards For Juvenile Statements	The act makes any statement or admission obtained during a juvenile custodial interrogation by a law enforcement official or agent who knowingly communicated any untruthful information or belief to the juvenile to be presumptively inadmissible against the juvenile at trial, unless the prosecution, in an evidentiary hearing prior to trial, proves by a preponderance of the evidence and based on the totality of the circumstances that the statement or admission was made voluntarily, despite the untruthful information or belief used to obtain the statement or admission or that the law enforcement official agent in good faith reasonably believed the information or belief was true at the time it was used. In assessing the totality of the circumstances, the court shall consider all evidence presented concerning the juvenile's vulnerability to any untruthful information or belief used during the custodial interrogation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1042	Colorado HB 23-1042 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Bacon Julie Gonzales Said Sharbini	11	18	5	2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f015589d-2a37-4915-a459-7203bf0a6813	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1042	8ceda32d0c870b5632bd5d240c3ea483cd3638ddc0b106498363da9e7f29eaa4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1042 (2023A) — Admissibility Standards For Juvenile Statements

The act makes any statement or admission obtained during a juvenile custodial interrogation by a law enforcement official or agent who knowingly communicated any untruthful information or belief to the juvenile to be presumptively inadmissible against the juvenile at trial, unless the prosecution, in an evidentiary hearing prior to trial, proves by a preponderance of the evidence and based on the totality of the circumstances that the statement or admission was made voluntarily, despite the untruthful information or belief used to obtain the statement or admission or that the law enforcement official agent in good faith reasonably believed the information or belief was true at the time it was used. In assessing the totality of the circumstances, the court shall consider all evidence presented concerning the juvenile's vulnerability to any untruthful information or belief used during the custodial interrogation.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 45–17 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 12–18 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 23–11 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 42–21 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 44–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Said Sharbini — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations 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/f015589d-2a37-4915-a459-7203bf0a6813. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).