republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1116.md

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Bill	Broadband Deployment Board Apply For Federal Funds	Joint Budget Committee. The bill authorizes the broadband deployment board to apply for federal funding of broadband deployment and allocate any federal money received to broadband deployment projects approved by the board. The bill also directs the board to petition the federal communications commission (FCC) for a waiver from the FCC's rules prohibiting a state entity from applying for federal money earmarked for broadband deployment through the FCC's connect America fund phase II auction to allow the board to apply for the federal auction money.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1116	Colorado HB 18-1116 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Dominick Moreno	8	12	2	2018-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a72c7cfb-1aae-4b80-8c12-33db7778505b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1116	c50217e43ac2307ab9e7f8dacf1c1aee25555e96706b24da4dc081a2ad2bd12c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1116 (2018A) — Broadband Deployment Board Apply For Federal Funds

Joint Budget Committee. The bill authorizes the broadband deployment board to apply for federal funding of broadband deployment and allocate any federal money received to broadband deployment projects approved by the board. The bill also directs the board to petition the federal communications commission (FCC) for a waiver from the FCC's rules prohibiting a state entity from applying for federal money earmarked for broadband deployment through the FCC's connect America fund phase II auction to allow the board to apply for the federal auction money.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (01/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (01/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (01/25/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (01/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 47–16 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-01-26T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-25T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-01-25T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2018-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-23T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a72c7cfb-1aae-4b80-8c12-33db7778505b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).