HB 22-1067

House Bill 22-1067 in Colorado ensures that people held in jail on a municipal hold will have their bond hearings within 48 hours after the court is notified, starting January 1, 2023. The bill also makes changes to how grants for these bond hearings are managed and reduces funding from one account while moving it to another. This means that defendants waiting for bond hearings won't have to wait as long before their cases are heard by a judge, which affects anyone detained in Colorado on municipal charges. Since the status is "signed," this bill has been approved by both houses of the legislature and signed into law by the governor, meaning its provisions will go into effect as planned.

Official Summary

Under current law, when a defendant is detained in jail on a municipal hold, the defendant must receive a hearing before the municipal court within 2 calendar days, excluding Sundays and federal holidays. Beginning January 1, 2023, the act requires the hearing to be held within 48 hours after the municipal court receives notice that the defendant is being held solely on a municipal hold. The act makes clarifying changes to the district attorney assistance for bond hearings grant program and repeals the district attorney assistance for bond hearings cash fund. The act decreases the 2022 long bill appropriation to the district attorney assistance for bond hearing cash fund by $600,000 and appropriates in the 2022 long bill $600,000 to the department of law for district attorney bond hearing grants. The act repeals the 2021 $150,000 appropriation to the district attorney assistance for bond hearing cash fund and appropriates for the 2021-22 fiscal year $150,000 to the department of law for district attorney bond hearing grants. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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