---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase General Fund Reserve"
description: "Joint Budget Committee. For the fiscal year 2018-19, and each fiscal year thereafter, the bill increases the statutorily required general fund reserve from 6.5% to 7.25% of the amount appropriated for expenditure from the general fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "SB 18-276"
citation: "Colorado SB 18-276 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Young", "Kent Lambert", "Kevin Lundberg", "Millie Hamner"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e3c9259-9f1f-43f0-a376-709e3fe8aaa2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-276"
source_hash: "28b195b361f4bd6df90fcfd49e1badd9c543e3c3b0cf7e456b526206afd9a4ca"
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 18-276 (2018A) — Increase General Fund Reserve

Joint Budget Committee. For the fiscal year 2018-19, and each fiscal year thereafter, the bill increases the statutorily required general fund reserve from 6.5% to 7.25% of the amount appropriated for expenditure from the general fund.

## 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_sb276_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276sapp_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/09/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/01/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_276_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **47–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dave Young — primary (person)
- Kent Lambert — primary (person)
- Kevin Lundberg — primary (person)
- Millie Hamner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-01T06:00:00+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
- **2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e3c9259-9f1f-43f0-a376-709e3fe8aaa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).