republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1143.md

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Bill	Protect Survivors' Rights To Rape Kit Evidence	The act requires the medical professional collecting medical evidence for a rape kit to inform the rape victim of the contact information for the nearest sexual assault victim's advocate or confidential victim's advocate, the length of time that medical evidence must be preserved, and the victim's right to be notified of the destruction of the medical evidence.The act creates the following rights, upon request, for a victim of a sex crime:The right to be notified that evidence has been submitted for testing;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1143	Colorado HB 21-1143 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Jessie Danielson Matt Soper Meg Froelich	8	12	2	2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dca81aac-92f4-45cb-b330-de605441751d	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1143	f78636d84a7ea62bf3776dd61558c209491d3e6e438de65b6e28245d5eb5e7f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1143 (2021A) — Protect Survivors' Rights To Rape Kit Evidence

The act requires the medical professional collecting medical evidence for a rape kit to inform the rape victim of the contact information for the nearest sexual assault victim's advocate or confidential victim's advocate, the length of time that medical evidence must be preserved, and the victim's right to be notified of the destruction of the medical evidence.The act creates the following rights, upon request, for a victim of a sex crime:The right to be notified that evidence has been submitted for testing;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dca81aac-92f4-45cb-b330-de605441751d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).