---
type: "Bill"
title: "Use Of Colorado Preschool Program Positions"
description: "Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission. If a district chooses to use early childhood at-risk enhancement (ECARE) positions to enroll children in the district's full-day kindergarten program, children using the ECARE positions must satisfy at least one of the eligibility requirements of the Colorado preschool program.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1134"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1134 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Martinez Humenik", "Brittany Pettersen", "James Wilson", "Michael Merrifield"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46b1acaa-680a-4ec5-9d9b-292c6a5c5188"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1134"
source_hash: "0ec1b86c7ed869cd003c1b64a63b0cfe8b9635d2407ea5815c77339231b10d34"
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 18-1134 (2018A) — Use Of Colorado Preschool Program Positions

Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission. If a district chooses to use early childhood at-risk enhancement (ECARE) positions to enroll children in the district's full-day kindergarten program, children using the ECARE positions must satisfy at least one of the eligibility requirements of the Colorado preschool program.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

## 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_hb1134_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/20/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/22/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/21/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/28/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/09/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1134_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **49–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
- Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Michael Merrifield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46b1acaa-680a-4ec5-9d9b-292c6a5c5188`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).