republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1208.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Expand Child Care Expenses Income Tax Credit	Currently, a resident individual with a federal adjusted gross income of $60,000 or less is allowed a state income tax credit (state credit) for child care expenses that is a percentage of a similar federal income tax credit claimed (federal credit). The amount of the state credit depends on the individual's adjusted gross income (AGI). If the individual's AGI is:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1208	Colorado HB 18-1208 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Beth Martinez Humenik Crisanta Duran Faith Winter	12	15	4	2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/534c3a74-3991-4e2d-900d-a255b917bb46	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1208	56ca762ebdd55463a61900bafcaf41ada473e83fa25eac3911ec180ca28deab8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1208 (2018A) — Expand Child Care Expenses Income Tax Credit

Currently, a resident individual with a federal adjusted gross income of $60,000 or less is allowed a state income tax credit (state credit) for child care expenses that is a percentage of a similar federal income tax credit claimed (federal credit). The amount of the state credit depends on the individual's adjusted gross income (AGI). If the individual's AGI is:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (05/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 49–12 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 38–26 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 42–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
• Crisanta Duran — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations introduction
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/534c3a74-3991-4e2d-900d-a255b917bb46. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).