republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1042.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Admissibility Standards For Juvenile Statements"
description: "The act makes any statement or admission obtained during a juvenile custodial interrogation by a law enforcement official or agent who knowingly communicated any untruthful information or belief to the juvenile to be presumptively inadmissible against the juvenile at trial, unless the prosecution, in an evidentiary hearing prior to trial, proves by a preponderance of the evidence and based on the totality of the circumstances that the statement or admission was made voluntarily, despite the untruthful information or belief used to obtain the statement or admission or that the law enforcement official agent in good faith reasonably believed the information or belief was true at the time it was used. In assessing the totality of the circumstances, the court shall consider all evidence presented concerning the juvenile's vulnerability to any untruthful information or belief used during the custodial interrogation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1042"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1042 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Bacon", "Julie Gonzales", "Said Sharbini"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f015589d-2a37-4915-a459-7203bf0a6813"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1042"
source_hash: "8ceda32d0c870b5632bd5d240c3ea483cd3638ddc0b106498363da9e7f29eaa4"
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 23-1042 (2023A) — Admissibility Standards For Juvenile Statements

The act makes any statement or admission obtained during a juvenile custodial interrogation by a law enforcement official or agent who knowingly communicated any untruthful information or belief to the juvenile to be presumptively inadmissible against the juvenile at trial, unless the prosecution, in an evidentiary hearing prior to trial, proves by a preponderance of the evidence and based on the totality of the circumstances that the statement or admission was made voluntarily, despite the untruthful information or belief used to obtain the statement or admission or that the law enforcement official agent in good faith reasonably believed the information or belief was true at the time it was used. In assessing the totality of the circumstances, the court shall consider all evidence presented concerning the juvenile's vulnerability to any untruthful information or belief used during the custodial interrogation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_hb1042_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/09/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_h_jud_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_s_jud_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (03/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/24/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/21/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1042_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/18/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1042_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **45–17** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **12–18** (fail) · upper
- BILL — **23–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **42–21** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **44–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Said Sharbini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2023-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f015589d-2a37-4915-a459-7203bf0a6813`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).