republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1220.md

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Bill	Court Facility Dog During Witness Testimony	Court facility dog - requirements - jury instruction. The act allows a court, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, to allow a witness to testify during criminal proceedings while a court facility dog is in the courtroom if certain conditions are satisfied.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1220	Colorado HB 19-1220 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Rhonda Fields Tom Sullivan	9	14	4	2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a55e5777-a8d5-4a4c-9ef4-74538acbbb7c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1220	75eeffa2c3dd8b442f4ccf4eb0f976367122b1b0530893e06647f41321f08a3e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1220 (2019A) — Court Facility Dog During Witness Testimony

Court facility dog - requirements - jury instruction. The act allows a court, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, to allow a witness to testify during criminal proceedings while a court facility dog is in the courtroom if certain conditions are satisfied.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/11/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/01/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–2 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 30–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a55e5777-a8d5-4a4c-9ef4-74538acbbb7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).