---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substitute Placement Agency Licensure"
description: "Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission. The bill creates a license within the department of human services (department) for a substitute placement agency that places or that facilitates or arranges placement of substitute child care providers in licensed child care facilities providing less than 24-hour care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "SB 18-162"
citation: "Colorado SB 18-162 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Martinez Humenik", "James Wilson", "Janet Buckner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/112da854-c735-481c-9e71-d098cc1bf475"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-162"
source_hash: "6223af6aa9bcc4fcc0bc85af3a405e6d77effee45713fa13212b2157182269a4"
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 18-162 (2018A) — Substitute Placement Agency Licensure

Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission. The bill creates a license within the department of human services (department) for a substitute placement agency that places or that facilitates or arranges placement of substitute child care providers in licensed child care facilities providing less than 24-hour care.

## 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_sb162_h_phc_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/13/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/06/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_162_rev.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **25–10** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **39–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over to 03/29/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over to 03/28/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/26/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`
- **2018-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/112da854-c735-481c-9e71-d098cc1bf475`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).