---
type: "Bill"
title: "Limit Penalties For Juvenile Truancy"
description: "The bill clarifies in the Colorado Children's Code and in the 'School Attendance Law of 1963' that a 'delinquent act' does not include truancy or habitual truancy. A child who is habitually truant and who refuses to follow a plan to rehabilitate his or her truancy may be subject to various sanctions by the court in a truancy proceeding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1156"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1156 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Holbert", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd4ce736-2421-4fd4-a385-eabb642638a8"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1156"
source_hash: "16776e610f814eb5bc7eb02435363b856903a91e277c15b5c5b1ee185c70a515"
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 18-1156 (2018A) — Limit Penalties For Juvenile Truancy

The bill clarifies in the Colorado Children's Code and in the 'School Attendance Law of 1963' that a 'delinquent act' does not include truancy or habitual truancy. A child who is habitually truant and who refuses to follow a plan to rehabilitate his or her truancy may be subject to various sanctions by the court in a truancy proceeding.

## 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_hb1156_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/19/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/01/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/15/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156sjud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/20/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/17/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/16/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/06/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1156_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **57–4** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **60–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2018-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 03/19/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01T07:00:00+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/bd4ce736-2421-4fd4-a385-eabb642638a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).