2021 Legislation
SB21-071: Bring Our Kids Home
Protects Colorado’s most vulnerable by preventing incarceration of children jailed for low-level offenses, and ending cash bail for kids.
Status: Passed the House and Senate!
HB21-1280: 48 Hour Bond
Ensures prompt access to justice to protect legally innocent from languishing in Colorado’s jails.
Status: Passed the House and Senate!
SB21-062: Jail Depopulation
Safely reduces jail populations by limiting cash bail and pretrial detention over low-level offenses — punishments that disproportionally harm our most vulnerable neighbors.
Status: Killed in the Senate by Democrats.
SB21-273: Pre-trial Justice
Narrower bill than its pre-cursor, SB21-062, SB21-273 significantly reduces the harm of over-policing and racialized policing, and decreases the number of people jailed for poverty.
Status: Passed the House but Killed in committee by Democratic Representatives Matthew Gray and Shannon Bird
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