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Bill	Discretionary Parole Of Special Needs Offenders	Current law provides 2 definitions by which an offender in the custody of the department of corrections (department) may be considered a 'special needs offender'. The first definition describes a person 'who is 60 years of age or older and has been diagnosed by a licensed health care provider who is employed by or under contract with the department as suffering from a chronic infirmity, illness, condition, disease, or behavioral or mental health disorder and the department or the state board of parole (parole board) determines that the person is incapacitated to the extent that he or she is not likely to pose a risk to public safety'. The bill amends this definition by changing '60 years' to '55 years'.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1109	Colorado HB 18-1109 (2018A)	bill		enacted	John Cooke Mike Weissman	9	15	2	2018-01-18T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dee4143f-7837-4316-a139-66e17b09c032	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1109	d5d6004360b77d69152b8a32dfea0ae628078aff8a20bcdcb2db446221431ba4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1109 (2018A) — Discretionary Parole Of Special Needs Offenders

Current law provides 2 definitions by which an offender in the custody of the department of corrections (department) may be considered a 'special needs offender'. The first definition describes a person 'who is 60 years of age or older and has been diagnosed by a licensed health care provider who is employed by or under contract with the department as suffering from a chronic infirmity, illness, condition, disease, or behavioral or mental health disorder and the department or the state board of parole (parole board) determines that the person is incapacitated to the extent that he or she is not likely to pose a risk to public safety'. The bill amends this definition by changing '60 years' to '55 years'.

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 (01/18/2018) (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

• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — 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, Floor 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
• 2018-01-18T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dee4143f-7837-4316-a139-66e17b09c032. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).