republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-189.md

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Bill	Require Jury to Determine Prior Convictions	Under existing law, a person convicted of certain prior offenses may be adjudged a habitual criminal and subject to enhanced sentencing. The act requires a jury, in a habitual proceeding that is separate from the trial of the charged substantive offense and for the purpose of determining whether the defendant is a habitual criminal, to determine whether the defendant has been previously convicted as alleged, whether the convictions were separately brought and tried, and whether the convictions arose out of separate and distinct criminal episodes. The habitual proceeding must be conducted before the same jury impaneled to try the substantive offense; except that, when necessary and as constitutionally permissible, a new jury may be impaneled. If a new jury is impaneled, the court shall hold the habitual proceeding as soon as practicable.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-189	Colorado SB 25-189 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cecelia Espenoza Larry Liston Marc Snyder Matt Soper	10	16	2	2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e5063830-d370-420f-8d65-28fc4085d2d0	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-189	47a782627de07eace55fda45814be72cfe5d930154e2d21a4432f94b7fef79b5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-189 (2025A) — Require Jury to Determine Prior Convictions

Under existing law, a person convicted of certain prior offenses may be adjudged a habitual criminal and subject to enhanced sentencing. The act requires a jury, in a habitual proceeding that is separate from the trial of the charged substantive offense and for the purpose of determining whether the defendant is a habitual criminal, to determine whether the defendant has been previously convicted as alleged, whether the convictions were separately brought and tried, and whether the convictions arose out of separate and distinct criminal episodes. The habitual proceeding must be conducted before the same jury impaneled to try the substantive offense; except that, when necessary and as constitutionally permissible, a new jury may be impaneled. If a new jury is impaneled, the court shall hold the habitual proceeding as soon as practicable.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/27/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
• Larry Liston — primary (person)
• Marc Snyder — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2025-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
• 2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5063830-d370-420f-8d65-28fc4085d2d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).