---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Check-off Young Americans Financial Education"
description: "The bill creates the Young Americans Center for Financial Education fund (fund) in the state treasury. A voluntary contribution designation line for the fund will appear on the state individual income tax return form (form) for the 5 income tax years following the year that the executive director of the department of revenue (department) certifies to the revisor of statutes that:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1305"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1305 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Coleman", "Patrick Neville", "Tim Neville"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdb8c3af-1749-4c8e-92f1-96ef09cb1b79"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1305"
source_hash: "b4b5957003d087a9647f29e247270c3efd0fbfb6fc551b424878f6590cd139bb"
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 18-1305 (2018A) — Income Tax Check-off Young Americans Financial Education

The bill creates the Young Americans Center for Financial Education fund (fund) in the state treasury. A voluntary contribution designation line for the fund will appear on the state individual income tax return form (form) for the 5 income tax years following the year that the executive director of the department of revenue (department) certifies to the revisor of statutes that:

## 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_hb1305_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/20/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/12/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/11/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1305_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **60–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Patrick Neville — primary (person)
- Tim Neville — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2018-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdb8c3af-1749-4c8e-92f1-96ef09cb1b79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).