republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1228.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic Violence Training Court Personnel"
description: "The act increases and clarifies domestic violence training requirements (training) for court personnel (personnel) who are regularly involved in cases related to domestic matters, including child and family investigators, parenting responsibility evaluators, and legal representatives of children.Training for all personnel must include both an initial training requirement as well as an ongoing annual continuing education requirement as follows:Six initial hours of training on domestic violence, including coercive control, and its traumatic effects on children, adults, and families;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1228"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1228 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faith Winter", "Jim Smallwood", "Meg Froelich"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/643d5c53-9045-4eb2-87c9-bb7e1feb4ee1"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1228"
source_hash: "db541e09eea4e33a7a508d3c43fa71ef57779fba2f7dd62237554e4b2845639a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 21-1228 (2021A) — Domestic Violence Training Court Personnel

The act increases and clarifies domestic violence training requirements (training) for court personnel (personnel) who are regularly involved in cases related to domestic matters, including child and family investigators, parenting responsibility evaluators, and legal representatives of children.Training for all personnel must include both an initial training requirement as well as an ongoing annual continuing education requirement as follows:Six initial hours of training on domestic violence, including coercive control, and its traumatic effects on children, adults, and families;

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1228_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1228_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1228_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **61–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **54–9** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- AMEND — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Meg Froelich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/643d5c53-9045-4eb2-87c9-bb7e1feb4ee1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).