republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1218.md

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Bill	Definition Of Veterans' Organizations For Sales And Use Tax	For purposes of state sales and use tax, a 'charitable organization' includes veterans' organizations as defined in federal law, but such organizations are limited to those that sponsor special events, meetings, or other functions in the state that are not part of the organization's regular activities in the state. In other words, a veterans' organization may not claim the charitable organization sales and use tax exemption for its regular activities in the state. This limitation is not found in the federal tax law granting veterans' organizations federal tax exempt status. The bill makes state law consistent with federal law and will treat veterans' organizations registered under section 501 (c)(19) of the federal internal revenue code the same way as veterans' organizations registered under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1218	Colorado HB 18-1218 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Jovan Melton Larry Crowder Nancy Todd Terri Carver	8	14	2	2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c0bad9e0-835e-40a1-b548-09a299176c54	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1218	ba792db8742049d9885313b099599097d8d41ca31e6190271bf2ff3d6bd7b9e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1218 (2018A) — Definition Of Veterans' Organizations For Sales And Use Tax

For purposes of state sales and use tax, a 'charitable organization' includes veterans' organizations as defined in federal law, but such organizations are limited to those that sponsor special events, meetings, or other functions in the state that are not part of the organization's regular activities in the state. In other words, a veterans' organization may not claim the charitable organization sales and use tax exemption for its regular activities in the state. This limitation is not found in the federal tax law granting veterans' organizations federal tax exempt status. The bill makes state law consistent with federal law and will treat veterans' organizations registered under section 501 (c)(19) of the federal internal revenue code the same way as veterans' organizations registered under section 501 (c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code.

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 (05/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jovan Melton — primary (person)
• Larry Crowder — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)
• Terri Carver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance 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 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0bad9e0-835e-40a1-b548-09a299176c54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).