---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crime Of Cruelty To Certified Police Working Horse"
description: "Current law includes a separate crime for cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog. The bill adds a definition for 'certified police working horse' to statute and adds certified police working horses to the crime of cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog. A person who, in good faith, reports an incident of cruelty to a certified police working horse is granted the same immunity from civil liability that persons have when reporting, in good faith, cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1041"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1041 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Marc Catlin"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dfefd87-52fc-4b3b-873e-00be7bf6f64b"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1041"
source_hash: "8d7fccf543d464c8e7aeedcba62c30d5d3a6cf15b17efd06bf3aa0455954506d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 18-1041 (2018A) — Crime Of Cruelty To Certified Police Working Horse

Current law includes a separate crime for cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog. The bill adds a definition for 'certified police working horse' to statute and adds certified police working horses to the crime of cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog. A person who, in good faith, reports an incident of cruelty to a certified police working horse is granted the same immunity from civil liability that persons have when reporting, in good faith, cruelty to a service animal or a certified police working dog.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018a/bills/cr/2018a_hb1041_s_lg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (02/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (02/23/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1041_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government `introduction`
- **2018-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/07/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6dfefd87-52fc-4b3b-873e-00be7bf6f64b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).