republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1114.md

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Bill	Defense Review of Tangible Object for Criminal Trial	The act grants a right for defense counsel to review a tangible object related to a criminal case at least 35 days before a trial, except for cases involving sexually exploitative material, and create confidential work product following their review. Law enforcement shall designate a specific location for the evidence viewing and be present during the evidence viewing to ensure chain of custody and integrity of the evidence. The act does not limit the defense's ability to request testing or a hearing, or the court's ability to conduct a hearing, on a tangible piece of evidence.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1114	Colorado HB 25-1114 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cecelia Espenoza Julie Gonzales Michael Carter Mike Weissman	10	14	6	2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/36c59e9b-2737-4f5c-9e99-306fefc825dd	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1114	53f9170b352259bb10967257ffec48dd1241eb8afde9e01605459087ba6b26cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1114 (2025A) — Defense Review of Tangible Object for Criminal Trial

The act grants a right for defense counsel to review a tangible object related to a criminal case at least 35 days before a trial, except for cases involving sexually exploitative material, and create confidential work product following their review. Law enforcement shall designate a specific location for the evidence viewing and be present during the evidence viewing to ensure chain of custody and integrity of the evidence. The act does not limit the defense's ability to request testing or a hearing, or the court's ability to conduct a hearing, on a tangible piece of evidence.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/18/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/26/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 19–42 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 23–8 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 41–21 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 22–39 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 40–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Michael Carter — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36c59e9b-2737-4f5c-9e99-306fefc825dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).