republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1275.md

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Bill	Forensic Science Integrity	The act defines "knowing misconduct" as a voluntary act or omission or series of acts or omissions consciously performed by a crime laboratory employee (employee) as a result of effort or determination in which the employee is aware that the employee's conduct is improper or deceptive and involves mishandling physical evidence or data or results, incorrectly performing forensic testing, presenting misleading or false results, concealing material information, or presenting false sworn testimony about evidence. The act defines a "significant event" as an act or omission by an employee that is a gross deviation from the standard operation procedures or accreditation requirements of the crime laboratory, or requirements in law that were applicable at the time of the act or omission of the employee, that could substantially negatively affect the integrity of the crime laboratory activities.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1275	Colorado HB 25-1275 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Lisa Frizell Matt Soper Mike Weissman Yara Zokaie	10	14	2	2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/96e2e383-60c4-4711-bf85-78a46d2dc90f	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1275	2ba579baaf559a06e45a7b9fc27e7939f4e9869df29590d10663a2588d040070	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1275 (2025A) — Forensic Science Integrity

The act defines "knowing misconduct" as a voluntary act or omission or series of acts or omissions consciously performed by a crime laboratory employee (employee) as a result of effort or determination in which the employee is aware that the employee's conduct is improper or deceptive and involves mishandling physical evidence or data or results, incorrectly performing forensic testing, presenting misleading or false results, concealing material information, or presenting false sworn testimony about evidence. The act defines a "significant event" as an act or omission by an employee that is a gross deviation from the standard operation procedures or accreditation requirements of the crime laboratory, or requirements in law that were applicable at the time of the act or omission of the employee, that could substantially negatively affect the integrity of the crime laboratory activities.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/19/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/16/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lisa Frizell — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Yara Zokaie — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
• M. Baisley — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
• R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-02T06:00:00+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
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96e2e383-60c4-4711-bf85-78a46d2dc90f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).