republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1031.md

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Bill	Law Enforcement Whistleblower Protection	The act creates a civil cause of action for a peace officer if the peace officer reports or discloses conduct that is in violation of, or the peace officer reasonably believes is in violation of, any law or policy and the report or disclosure is a contributing factor in the employer of the peace officer's decision to take adverse employment action against the peace officer. A peace officer may seek the following damages:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1031	Colorado HB 25-1031 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Byron Pelton Chad Clifford Dylan Roberts Jennifer Bacon	10	14	4	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0028f60d-976e-433d-8c44-c06d875e3581	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1031	4a4fc7f92dba3c07ce8d27e84173486b73e626a2fbf53e82aa027b07719dd103	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1031 (2025A) — Law Enforcement Whistleblower Protection

The act creates a civil cause of action for a peace officer if the peace officer reports or discloses conduct that is in violation of, or the peace officer reasonably believes is in violation of, any law or policy and the report or disclosure is a contributing factor in the employer of the peace officer's decision to take adverse employment action against the peace officer. A peace officer may seek the following damages:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Chad Clifford — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Bradley — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Barron — cosponsor (person)
• C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Woog — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• J. Willford — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. English — cosponsor (person)
• R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
• R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
• R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0028f60d-976e-433d-8c44-c06d875e3581. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).