All Roll Calls
Yes: 150 • No: 150
ColoradoSB26-0042026 Regular SessionSenate
Expand List of Petitioners for Protection Order
Sponsored By: Jenny Willford (Democratic), Julie Gonzales (Democratic), Meg Froelich (Democratic), Tom Sullivan (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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More people can seek protection orders
Colorado allows more educators, crisis workers, and institutions to seek temporary or continuing extreme risk protection orders and renewals. Educators must have had a direct professional relationship with the person named or their child within the previous six months. Eligible educators include teachers, school administrators, and college faculty. Qualifying crisis workers must provide on-site crisis assessment, de-escalation, or intervention services and meet the six-month contact rule. This includes qualifying co-responders and community members working with law enforcement agencies or emergency response teams. The added crisis-worker category excludes law enforcement officers who answered a behavioral health call involving the person named. Institutions must employ or contract with a qualifying community member. Examples include school districts, private and charter schools, the State Charter School Institute, colleges, licensed hospitals and health-care facilities, and behavioral health, substance-use treatment, or crisis-service facilities.
Police must request firearm search warrants
Police seeking a temporary extreme risk protection order must also file a sworn statement requesting a search warrant. This applies when they have probable cause to believe the person named has firearms in their custody, control, or possession. The requested warrant covers searches for that person's firearms at the locations it names.
Protection order cases can include minors
Colorado's extreme risk protection order law expressly includes people under 18 who are named as respondents in petitions. This means the order process applies to cases involving those minors, not just adults.
Good-faith petitioners get liability protections
The law protects people and organizations from liability under the protection-order law for good-faith actions or failures to act. This includes reporting, investigating, and filing or declining to file temporary or continuing protection-order petitions. Protection covers criminal, civil, and administrative liability, subject to the exception in section 13-14.5-111. Peace officers lawfully enforcing an order are also protected from criminal or civil liability under this law.
Health records shared with court safeguards
Authorized community members and institutions can share protected health information needed to investigate and resolve a protection-order petition. They must make reasonable efforts to share only the minimum needed. Courts can obtain relevant records for good cause and issue protective orders limiting their use. The information can be used only for the case, must be returned or destroyed afterward, and must be sealed by the court. Good-faith decisions to disclose receive protection from civil liability.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Jenny Willford
Democratic • House
Julie Gonzales
Democratic • Senate
Meg Froelich
Democratic • House
Tom Sullivan
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Andrew Boesenecker
Democratic • House
Amy Paschal
Democratic • House
Brianna Titone
Democratic • House
Cecelia Espenoza
Democratic • House
Eliza Hamrick
Democratic • House
Emily Sirota
Democratic • House
Gretchen Rydin
Democratic • House
Jennifer Bacon
Democratic • House
Jamie Jackson
Democratic • House
Junie Joseph
Democratic • House
Julie McCluskie
Democratic • House
Kyle Brown
Democratic • House
Karen McCormick
Democratic • House
Kenny Nguyen
Democratic • House
Lorena Garcia
Democratic • House
Lindsay Gilchrist
Democratic • House
Lesley Smith
Democratic • House
Monica Duran
Democratic • House
Mandy Lindsay
Democratic • House
Manny Rutinel
Democratic • House
Rebekah Stewart
Democratic • House
Sean Camacho
Democratic • House
Steven Woodrow
Democratic • House
Tammy Story
Democratic • House
Yara Zokaie
Democratic • House
Cathy Kipp
Democratic • Senate
Chris Kolker
Democratic • Senate
Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Democratic • Senate
Iman Jodeh
Democratic • Senate
Judy Amabile
Democratic • Senate
James Coleman
Democratic • Senate
Jessie Danielson
Democratic • Senate
Katie Wallace
Democratic • Senate
Lisa Cutter
Democratic • Senate
Matt Ball
Democratic • Senate
Mike Weissman
Democratic • Senate
Robert Rodriguez
Democratic • Senate
Tony Exum
Democratic • Senate
William Lindstedt
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/20/2026
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 39 • No: 24
House vote • 3/19/2026
Committee of the whole: Amd (h.003)
Yes: 22 • No: 40
House vote • 3/19/2026
Committee of the whole: Amd (h.002)
Yes: 27 • No: 36
House vote • 3/19/2026
Committee of the whole: Amd (h.001)
Yes: 31 • No: 32
House vote • 3/2/2026
Refer Senate Bill 26-004 to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 8 • No: 3
Senate vote • 2/3/2026
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 20 • No: 13
Senate vote • 1/27/2026
Refer Senate Bill 26-004, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
4/6/2026HouseSent to the Governor
3/27/2026HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
3/26/2026SenateSigned by the Speaker of the House
3/26/2026HouseHouse Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
3/20/2026HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
3/19/2026HouseHouse Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
3/5/2026HouseHouse Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
3/2/2026HouseIntroduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs
2/4/2026HouseSenate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
2/3/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
2/2/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/02/2026 - No Amendments
1/30/2026SenateSenate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
1/27/2026SenateIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
1/14/2026Senate
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Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Preamend
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