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Bill	Best Practices For State Boards And Commissions	Legislative Audit Committee. Commencing January 1, 2019, the bill requires each statutorily created board or commission in state government, not including a special purpose authority, to implement written policies or bylaws and obtain annual training on specified issues in order to ensure that best practices are utilized and requires each state agency responsible for a statutorily created board or commission to ensure that the state board or commission obtains the annual training and implements the written policies.(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 18-1198	Colorado HB 18-1198 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Jim Smallwood Kerry Donovan Lori Saine Tracy Kraft-Tharp	10	15	5	2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1144bea2-d435-49b4-bde5-92c5f6cd7577	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1198	daee6680141d60ade4f3d5d511447091fd77770151c0c8eeae6ca16164b5b3bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1198 (2018A) — Best Practices For State Boards And Commissions

Legislative Audit Committee. Commencing January 1, 2019, the bill requires each statutorily created board or commission in state government, not including a special purpose authority, to implement written policies or bylaws and obtain annual training on specified issues in order to ensure that best practices are utilized and requires each state agency responsible for a statutorily created board or commission to ensure that the state board or commission obtains the annual training and implements the written policies.(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 (02/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 59–2 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 59–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
• Lori Saine — primary (person)
• Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2018-02-26T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs and Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1144bea2-d435-49b4-bde5-92c5f6cd7577. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).