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type: "Bill"
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title: "Prohibit Flat Fees for Defending Indigent Clients"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2024A"
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identifier: "HB 24-1437"
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citation: "Colorado HB 24-1437 (2024A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Mike Weissman", "Monica Duran", "Rhonda Fields"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8139f45c-50ca-46f7-a182-b2c18ff46b15"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1437"
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source_hash: "2c0e83267791e8a51417ca9a287b4bef98031925653d4e15401e5f513f6ba7ff"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado HB 24-1437 (2024A) — Prohibit Flat Fees for Defending Indigent Clients
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_hb1437_s_jud_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_h_jud_01.pdf)
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6. **Reengrossed (04/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_ren.pdf)
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7. **Rerevised (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_rer.pdf)
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8. **Revised (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1437_rev.pdf)
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9. **Signed Act (06/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1437_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **23–10** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **45–15** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
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- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
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- Monica Duran — primary (person)
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- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2024-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
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- **2024-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
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- **2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8139f45c-50ca-46f7-a182-b2c18ff46b15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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