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Bill	Child Protection Ombudsman and Immigrant Children	Under current law, the office of the child protection ombudsman (ombudsman) has a duty to receive complaints made by or on behalf of a child relating to the child protection system in order to investigate and seek resolution of the complaint. The act extends the scope of the ombudsman's duties to self-initiate impartial and independent investigations and ongoing reviews of the safety and well-being of unaccompanied immigrant children who live in a state-licensed residential child care facility (facility) and who are in the custody of the office of refugee resettlement of the federal department of health and human services. The ombudsman may seek resolution of such investigations and ongoing reviews by referring an investigation and ongoing review to the state department of human services (department) or the appropriate agency or entity and making a recommendation for action relating to the investigation and ongoing review of the facility. The ombudsman may request, review, and receive copies of information, records, or documents that the ombudsman deems necessary to conduct a thorough and independent investigation and ongoing review of the facility. The ombudsman shall report the results of the investigation and ongoing review in the ombudsman's annual report.The act requires the facility to notify the ombudsman and the department within 3 days after the arrival of an unaccompanied immigrant child.The act permits the department and the ombudsman to coordinate site visits to investigate and review a facility. The department and the ombudsman may share final reports based on their site visits.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $90,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the judicial department and provides 0.9 FTE for use by the office of the child protection ombudsman to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1313	Colorado HB 21-1313 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Adrienne Benavidez Julie Gonzales Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	10	15	2	2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00	2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5356f0b4-8a87-4034-883d-ac1595a4369d	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1313	0a4afb7fcca8dd68f8a5991e94f1c38d6fa58e18709a77c44e05745ff58aab01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1313 (2021A) — Child Protection Ombudsman and Immigrant Children

Under current law, the office of the child protection ombudsman (ombudsman) has a duty to receive complaints made by or on behalf of a child relating to the child protection system in order to investigate and seek resolution of the complaint. The act extends the scope of the ombudsman's duties to self-initiate impartial and independent investigations and ongoing reviews of the safety and well-being of unaccompanied immigrant children who live in a state-licensed residential child care facility (facility) and who are in the custody of the office of refugee resettlement of the federal department of health and human services. The ombudsman may seek resolution of such investigations and ongoing reviews by referring an investigation and ongoing review to the state department of human services (department) or the appropriate agency or entity and making a recommendation for action relating to the investigation and ongoing review of the facility. The ombudsman may request, review, and receive copies of information, records, or documents that the ombudsman deems necessary to conduct a thorough and independent investigation and ongoing review of the facility. The ombudsman shall report the results of the investigation and ongoing review in the ombudsman's annual report.The act requires the facility to notify the ombudsman and the department within 3 days after the arrival of an unaccompanied immigrant child.The act permits the department and the ombudsman to coordinate site visits to investigate and review a facility. The department and the ombudsman may share final reports based on their site visits.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $90,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the judicial department and provides 0.9 FTE for use by the office of the child protection ombudsman to implement the act.(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 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (07/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 54–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Adrienne Benavidez — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5356f0b4-8a87-4034-883d-ac1595a4369d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).