---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand Child Nutrition School Lunch Protection Act"
description: "Current law creates an annual appropriation to provide lunches at no charge to children in state-subsidized early childhood education programs administered by public schools or in kindergarten through fifth grade who would otherwise have to pay for a reduced-price lunch."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "SB 18-013"
citation: "Colorado SB 18-013 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74dac10b-0f33-4c31-8476-47b45f80c09f"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-013"
source_hash: "cc2a7cf2089d5b962bf9eff6ff86e69033f00a5d9f762acc24362a7a1148a151"
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 SB 18-013 (2018A) — Expand Child Nutrition School Lunch Protection Act

Current law creates an annual appropriation to provide lunches at no charge to children in state-subsidized early childhood education programs administered by public schools or in kindergarten through fifth grade who would otherwise have to pay for a reduced-price lunch.

## 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_sb013_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/01/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013sapp_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_rn2.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_013_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **36–29** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/74dac10b-0f33-4c31-8476-47b45f80c09f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).