ColoradoColorado will review parole risk scores and report on errors
If no referendum petition is filed, the law takes effect August 12, 2026, and requires Colorado’s Department of Corrections to review parole risk assessments and report results each year.
What it does
The Department must establish a team to check parole risk assessments and train assessors. Reviews must cover each risk level and periodically check assessors’ work.
At its annual legislative hearing, the Department must report on assessment reviews, errors that led to wrong supervision levels, and steps to improve the process.
Parole risk scores and resulting supervision levels count as criminal justice records. Agreements cannot block disclosure when the records law allows those outputs to be released.
Argument forRegular checks and training could help staff catch scoring mistakes and assign supervision levels using more accurate information.
Argument againstMaking covered scores and supervision levels disclosable could reveal sensitive information about parolees’ risks and needs.
More detail
The Department must establish a team to review parole risk assessments and support accurate, consistent scoring. Reviews cover community supervision assessments and similar successor tools used to guide parole supervision. The review system must include completed assessments at each risk level, periodic checks of assessors’ work, and training. The team must put its review policies and practices in place by August 31, 2026.
The Department must report assessment review results and improvement steps at its annual legislative hearing. The reports cover community supervision assessments and similar successor tools reviewed under this section. The report must include how many assessments were reviewed, how many contained errors that led to an inaccurate supervision level, and review findings and steps to address them. Reports begin in January 2027 and continue each January after that.
The law defines parole risk scores and resulting supervision levels as criminal justice records and voids agreements that block disclosure of covered outputs. Risk assessment outputs mean a parolee’s total score and resulting supervision level from a validated tool that assesses needs and risk. Only information subject to disclosure under the criminal justice records law is covered; this does not make every record public. The rule voiding agreements applies to record requests made on or after the act’s effective date.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Jun 1Governor Jared Polis SignedBecame Law
- May 29Signed by the Speaker of the HouseMajor
- May 29Signed by the President of the SenateMajor
- May 29Sent to the GovernorTo Governor
- May 13House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- Vote recorded REPASS. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded CONCUR. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded REPASS. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded CONCUR. Result: pass.Lower
- May 12Senate Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed Senate
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Upper
- May 11Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- May 8Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/11/2026 - No Amendments
- May 8Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- May 6Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1315 to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 29Introduced In Senate - Assigned to JudiciaryMinor
- Apr 28House Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsPassed House
- Vote recorded BILL. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 27House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- Apr 24House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the WholeMinor
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1315 to the Committee of the Whole. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 1House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to AppropriationsMinor
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment L). Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Refer House Bill 26-1315, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment K), as amended by L.003. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 2Introduced In House - Assigned to JudiciaryIntroduced
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