---
type: "Bill"
title: "Offenses Against Civil And Administrative Witnesses"
description: "The bill clarifies that the offenses of intimidating a witness or victim and retaliation against a witness or victim apply to witnesses in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "SB 18-169"
citation: "Colorado SB 18-169 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ca258b1-8977-4dd2-9202-9bb57c02a7c4"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-169"
source_hash: "ca51504ef7afd949f4741ae5048c42aa8a36304ee0f15511701a94d2f41b77b9"
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 18-169 (2018A) — Offenses Against Civil And Administrative Witnesses

The bill clarifies that the offenses of intimidating a witness or victim and retaliation against a witness or victim apply to witnesses in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings.

## 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_sb169_h_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/18/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/21/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/25/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_169_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **60–2** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **29–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2018-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 03/08/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/3ca258b1-8977-4dd2-9202-9bb57c02a7c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).