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Bill to clarify online bond payments aims to prevent people from being held when a judge sets bond
Summary
Sponsors say HB 1015 clarifies existing law to make online bond posting work as intended: remove low caps, eliminate excessive processing fees, and apply in‑person posting rules to online portals. Witnesses urged passage saying barriers leave people in custody who could post bail if portals matched statutory intent.
House Bill 1015, a cleanup measure to strengthen online bond posting, was introduced and heard by the House Judiciary Committee on May 20. The bill's sponsors said the statute that required online bond pay in 2022 has not been implemented consistently across counties and that barriers such as low maximum online payment caps, excessive platform processing fees and local practice differences have left people detained even when a judge set bond they could afford.
"When the Colorado Legislature said that online bond payments…
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