republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1249.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reduce Justice-involvement For Young Children"
description: "The act requires that the department of human services (department) add to its report information on the number of youth who at the time they received services from the county department of human or social services (county department) or were placed in out-of-home placement by a county department had an open delinquency case in a district court, were on juvenile probation, or had a juvenile deferred sentence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1249"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1249 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "James Coleman", "Ryan Armagost", "Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d256e29c-0774-42dd-9a28-5e9321645a01"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1249"
source_hash: "30e595f5f1670675421ab4607b617bd798aa7c2f4bfb40b6301d37741564dfc4"
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 23-1249 (2023A) — Reduce Justice-involvement For Young Children

The act requires that the department of human services (department) add to its report information on the number of youth who at the time they received services from the county department of human or social services (county department) or were placed in out-of-home placement by a county department had an open delinquency case in a district court, were on juvenile probation, or had a juvenile deferred sentence.

## 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_hb1249_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/20/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_h_jud_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1249_rv2.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1249_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- PREV ? — **45–20** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **52–13** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **40–25** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **45–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)
- Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01T06:00:00+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
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Floor
- **2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Floor
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over with Amendments to 05/02/2023 - Floor
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments - Floor
- **2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20T06:00:00+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/d256e29c-0774-42dd-9a28-5e9321645a01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).