republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1178.md

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Bill	Court Personnel And Domestic Violence Awareness	To comply with the federal "Keeping Children Safe From Family Violence Act" (federal act), the act requires courts that hear parental allocation proceedings involving domestic violence or child abuse, including child sexual abuse, to consider the admission of expert testimony and evidence if the expert demonstrates expertise and experience working with victims of domestic violence or child abuse. Courts are also required to consider evidence of past sexual or physical abuse committed by the accused party, any restraining orders against the accused party, arrests or convictions of the accused party, and any other documentation of abuse, such as letters to landlords to break leases or medical records.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1178	Colorado HB 23-1178 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Meg Froelich	11	17	4	2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b059d42c-f485-41ae-8eaa-b226252391d8	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1178	ff4b5a437598847c7b042d43d22cd9097980dffc1a3ac1bebe38d6d734ca253a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1178 (2023A) — Court Personnel And Domestic Violence Awareness

To comply with the federal "Keeping Children Safe From Family Violence Act" (federal act), the act requires courts that hear parental allocation proceedings involving domestic violence or child abuse, including child sexual abuse, to consider the admission of expert testimony and evidence if the expert demonstrates expertise and experience working with victims of domestic violence or child abuse. Courts are also required to consider evidence of past sexual or physical abuse committed by the accused party, any restraining orders against the accused party, arrests or convictions of the accused party, and any other documentation of abuse, such as letters to landlords to break leases or medical records.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 48–16 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 48–15 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 45–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b059d42c-f485-41ae-8eaa-b226252391d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).