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Bill	Policies And Procedures To Identify Domestic Abuse	Current law does not expressly recognize domestic abuse as a form of child abuse or neglect. The act establishes a domestic abuse task force (task force) that will develop a statutory definition for the Colorado Children's Code to define "domestic abuse". The statutory definition should recognize the impact domestic abuse may have on the emotional and developmental well-being of a child. The task force shall review recommendations from the department of human services' domestic violence program and child welfare workgroup (workgroup) to develop the statutory definition. The act requires the department of human services (department) to report the recommended definition to committees of the general assembly no later than December 2022.Under current law, child welfare caseworkers do not have established training policies or assessment procedures to identify and assess situations when a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian exposes a child to their perpetration of domestic abuse. The act requires the department to promulgate rules based on recommendations from the workgroup to create, implement, and update assessment policies, procedures, and training standards for child welfare caseworkers to recognize, respond to, and assess child abuse or neglect related to domestic abuse while appropriately considering the role of the non-abusive caregiver, the abusive parent, and cultural considerations.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $22,500 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of human services for use by the division of child welfare for administration.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1099	Colorado HB 21-1099 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Jim Smallwood Kim Ransom Rachel Zenzinger	10	14	2	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/67ed0859-eef8-4051-9435-99b2dda3c871	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1099	174fe5d6d096457d77aac63cda9d869fd6cdc8cd01e65d0b11f86ccebfce2eeb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1099 (2021A) — Policies And Procedures To Identify Domestic Abuse

Current law does not expressly recognize domestic abuse as a form of child abuse or neglect. The act establishes a domestic abuse task force (task force) that will develop a statutory definition for the Colorado Children's Code to define "domestic abuse". The statutory definition should recognize the impact domestic abuse may have on the emotional and developmental well-being of a child. The task force shall review recommendations from the department of human services' domestic violence program and child welfare workgroup (workgroup) to develop the statutory definition. The act requires the department of human services (department) to report the recommended definition to committees of the general assembly no later than December 2022.Under current law, child welfare caseworkers do not have established training policies or assessment procedures to identify and assess situations when a child's parent, legal guardian, or custodian exposes a child to their perpetration of domestic abuse. The act requires the department to promulgate rules based on recommendations from the workgroup to create, implement, and update assessment policies, procedures, and training standards for child welfare caseworkers to recognize, respond to, and assess child abuse or neglect related to domestic abuse while appropriately considering the role of the non-abusive caregiver, the abusive parent, and cultural considerations.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $22,500 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of human services for use by the division of child welfare for administration.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 59–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Kim Ransom — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67ed0859-eef8-4051-9435-99b2dda3c871. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).