republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1049.md

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Bill	Communication Rights for Persons in Custody	Current law allows a person who is committed, imprisoned, or arrested (person in custody) the right to communicate with an attorney or family member by making a reasonable number of telephone calls or through any other reasonable manner. The act adds the attorney's authorized representative to those whom a person in custody can communicate with.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1049	Colorado HB 25-1049 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Judy Amabile Julie Gonzales Lorena García	10	14	2	2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7ba4fa7e-a093-4c83-be60-c63a849f2fd9	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1049	ac9e4195ab6725732fa5843d1c6279d6a1879639bf229c5ddce270677c15c562	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1049 (2025A) — Communication Rights for Persons in Custody

Current law allows a person who is committed, imprisoned, or arrested (person in custody) the right to communicate with an attorney or family member by making a reasonable number of telephone calls or through any other reasonable manner. The act adds the attorney's authorized representative to those whom a person in custody can communicate with.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 26–8 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 44–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Lorena García — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Y. Zokaie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-31T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ba4fa7e-a093-4c83-be60-c63a849f2fd9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).