republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1270.md

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Bill	Public Utilities Commission Evaluation Of Energy Storage Systems	The bill directs the public utilities commission to adopt rules establishing mechanisms for the procurement of energy storage systems by investor-owned electric utilities, based on an analysis of costs and benefits as well as factors such as grid reliability and a reduction in the need for additional peak generation capacity. The information supplied by the utilities must include appropriate data and must specify interconnection points to enable independent evaluation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1270	Colorado HB 18-1270 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Chris Hansen Jack Tate Jon Becker	10	24	7	2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00	2018-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/48ebbfe3-3490-44ee-a431-2e587c2df11b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1270	3b2cff280667f06e9c3a23f3b5d4ca3bc58f1bbd108c85d2802df7c4b107d356	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1270 (2018A) — Public Utilities Commission Evaluation Of Energy Storage Systems

The bill directs the public utilities commission to adopt rules establishing mechanisms for the procurement of energy storage systems by investor-owned electric utilities, based on an analysis of costs and benefits as well as factors such as grid reliability and a reduction in the need for additional peak generation capacity. The information supplied by the utilities must include appropriate data and must specify interconnection points to enable independent evaluation.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Conference Committee (05/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (03/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (04/13/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPT — 51–14 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• NOTCNCR — 45–19 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 56–9 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Jack Tate — primary (person)
• Jon Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/19/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy introduction
• 2018-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/04/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/03/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/29/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/28/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/48ebbfe3-3490-44ee-a431-2e587c2df11b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).