republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1065.md

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Bill	DHS Department of Human Services Employee Discipline Harm To Vulnerable Persons	The Colorado department of human services (department) operates numerous facilities in the state that provide direct care to vulnerable people, including veterans and their families, youth in rehabilitation programs, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and people with mental health diagnoses. Current law specifies when an employee of the department (employee) will be suspended or dismissed after being charged with specified criminal offenses. However, the department has encountered difficulty in suspending, dismissing, or otherwise disciplining employees through the administrative process when the employee was involved in an egregious incident of mistreatment of a vulnerable person but was not convicted of a criminal offense. The bill specifies that:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1065	Colorado HB 18-1065 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Janet Buckner Kent Lambert Susan Beckman	9	16	2	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/003f1921-81b0-4d8e-9b92-7b5ffb8012c5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1065	8e9d332fe51763e9ec8162de386728f170db1a84b08a8c9a0b10f7ece944aa67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1065 (2018A) — DHS Department of Human Services Employee Discipline Harm To Vulnerable Persons

The Colorado department of human services (department) operates numerous facilities in the state that provide direct care to vulnerable people, including veterans and their families, youth in rehabilitation programs, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and people with mental health diagnoses. Current law specifies when an employee of the department (employee) will be suspended or dismissed after being charged with specified criminal offenses. However, the department has encountered difficulty in suspending, dismissing, or otherwise disciplining employees through the administrative process when the employee was involved in an egregious incident of mistreatment of a vulnerable person but was not convicted of a criminal offense. The bill specifies that:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Kent Lambert — primary (person)
• Susan Beckman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/23/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/22/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/21/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/003f1921-81b0-4d8e-9b92-7b5ffb8012c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).