---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit Leave Of Absence Organ Donation"
description: "Beginning January 1, 2020, an employer is allowed an income tax credit that is an amount equal to 35% of the employer's expenses incurred:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1202"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1202 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alec Garnett", "Bob Gardner"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98126d66-6d97-42ab-be2a-db8c5aed0fbf"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1202"
source_hash: "094b5c459d37e961f576a1ebf8dbfdd3653d61c260a398e7702f971a93cae3d4"
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 18-1202 (2018A) — Income Tax Credit Leave Of Absence Organ Donation

Beginning January 1, 2020, an employer is allowed an income tax credit that is an amount equal to 35% of the employer's expenses incurred:

## 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_hb1202_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/22/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/30/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1202_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **13–21** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **39–24** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **39–26** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **61–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **19–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alec Garnett — primary (person)
- Bob Gardner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Lost - No Amendments
- **2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98126d66-6d97-42ab-be2a-db8c5aed0fbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).