republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1187.md

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Bill	Alternatives In Criminal Justice System And Pregnant Persons	In determining bond or an alternative sentence for a pregnant or postpartum defendant (defendant), the act creates a rebuttable presumption against detention and incarceration of a defendant if the defendant provides the court and district attorney with notice of the defendant's status as a pregnant or postpartum defendant at each applicable stage of the court proceedings. If the court decides to detain or incarcerate the defendant, the act requires the court to make specific findings on the record that the risk to public safety, or any other factor the court is required to consider, is substantial enough to outweigh the risks related to incarceration. Notwithstanding the provisions of the act, a court shall not:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1187	Colorado HB 23-1187 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Bacon Judy Amabile Julie Gonzales Rhonda Fields	11	17	4	2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ab3bb6ed-e5de-4725-941e-bd60839d463c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1187	79d4423e4ded3b9869f26976cb99d66b131d9797d1cd375c3cdd0ff7e28b0514	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1187 (2023A) — Alternatives In Criminal Justice System And Pregnant Persons

In determining bond or an alternative sentence for a pregnant or postpartum defendant (defendant), the act creates a rebuttable presumption against detention and incarceration of a defendant if the defendant provides the court and district attorney with notice of the defendant's status as a pregnant or postpartum defendant at each applicable stage of the court proceedings. If the court decides to detain or incarcerate the defendant, the act requires the court to make specific findings on the record that the risk to public safety, or any other factor the court is required to consider, is substantial enough to outweigh the risks related to incarceration. Notwithstanding the provisions of the act, a court shall not:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 23–11 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 44–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+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 Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab3bb6ed-e5de-4725-941e-bd60839d463c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).