republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-124.md

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Bill	Changes To Felony Murder	Under current law, it is a class 1 felony as it pertains to first degree murder if a person commits or attempts to commit certain specified felonies and the death of a person, other than one of the participants, is caused by anyone during the crime. The act changes the current law by:Moving the crime from first degree murder to second degree murder and changing the penalty from a class 1 felony to a class 2 felony that is subject to crime of violence sentencing;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-124	Colorado SB 21-124 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Mike Weissman Pete Lee	9	16	2	2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1508a316-d239-43f8-ba4c-e7a68779b420	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-124	94e1348a3399ab91445770343e29295d741f629ce27bf72558047bd396e47a6a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-124 (2021A) — Changes To Felony Murder

Under current law, it is a class 1 felony as it pertains to first degree murder if a person commits or attempts to commit certain specified felonies and the death of a person, other than one of the participants, is caused by anyone during the crime. The act changes the current law by:Moving the crime from first degree murder to second degree murder and changing the penalty from a class 1 felony to a class 2 felony that is subject to crime of violence sentencing;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/31/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 38–27 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 22–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Pete Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/29/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1508a316-d239-43f8-ba4c-e7a68779b420. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).