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Bill	Prohibit Flat Fees for Defending Indigent Clients	Beginning July 1, 2025, the act requires a municipality that prosecutes an act of domestic violence and that contracts directly with one or more defense attorneys to provide counsel to indigent defendants to ensure that the municipality's contract does not use a fixed or flat-fee payment structure for indigent defense services. The act requires the municipal court to instead use the same payment structure and rates that are paid by the state of Colorado to attorneys or other interdisciplinary team members under contract with the office of alternate defense counsel and consistent with chief justice directive 04-04.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1437	Colorado HB 24-1437 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Mike Weissman Monica Duran Rhonda Fields	9	13	2	2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00	2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8139f45c-50ca-46f7-a182-b2c18ff46b15	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1437	2c0e83267791e8a51417ca9a287b4bef98031925653d4e15401e5f513f6ba7ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1437 (2024A) — Prohibit Flat Fees for Defending Indigent Clients

Beginning July 1, 2025, the act requires a municipality that prosecutes an act of domestic violence and that contracts directly with one or more defense attorneys to provide counsel to indigent defendants to ensure that the municipality's contract does not use a fixed or flat-fee payment structure for indigent defense services. The act requires the municipal court to instead use the same payment structure and rates that are paid by the state of Colorado to attorneys or other interdisciplinary team members under contract with the office of alternate defense counsel and consistent with chief justice directive 04-04.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/28/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/18/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/24/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–10 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 45–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8139f45c-50ca-46f7-a182-b2c18ff46b15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).