· CO legislature · 2025A

Failure to Appear Charges in Municipal Court

The act prohibits a person's failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge against the person. The act clarifies that, for purposes of the act, failure to appear includes contempt of court for the failure to appear or any other term used by a municipality to refer to a person's failure to…

Sponsor

Mike Weissman (D-CO)

Introduced

2025-04-17

Policy area

Crime and Law Enforcement

Latest action

Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary