republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1142.md

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Bill	Eyewitness Identification Showup Regulations	The act requires each law enforcement agency that employs a peace officer who is required to be peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T.) certified to adopt written policies and procedures concerning eyewitness identifications, which must be consistent the provisions of this act. Beginning January 1, 2022, each law enforcement agency that uses a showup shall collect for each showup the date, the technique that was used, the gender and race of the suspect, the alleged crime, and the outcome of the showup. Each law enforcement agency shall create an annual report of the data collected.The act directs that a peace officer may only utilize a showup:Following the report of a crime, when a peace officer, acting on reasonable suspicion, has detained a subject in the crime within minutes of the commission of the crime and near the location of the crime;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1142	Colorado HB 21-1142 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Bacon Julie Gonzales	10	15	4	2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51bd92a9-6944-4673-82c6-b13910146422	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1142	93aee0ff27ac08a14b20b9b75e01e8d541ca3d5eba4a9c72621a21629a5dc3d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1142 (2021A) — Eyewitness Identification Showup Regulations

The act requires each law enforcement agency that employs a peace officer who is required to be peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T.) certified to adopt written policies and procedures concerning eyewitness identifications, which must be consistent the provisions of this act. Beginning January 1, 2022, each law enforcement agency that uses a showup shall collect for each showup the date, the technique that was used, the gender and race of the suspect, the alleged crime, and the outcome of the showup. Each law enforcement agency shall create an annual report of the data collected.The act directs that a peace officer may only utilize a showup:Following the report of a crime, when a peace officer, acting on reasonable suspicion, has detained a subject in the crime within minutes of the commission of the crime and near the location of the crime;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/17/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 42–20 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 47–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 45–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51bd92a9-6944-4673-82c6-b13910146422. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).