republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1385.md

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Bill	Domestic Relations Changes Due To Federal Tax Law	Prior to the enactment of federal tax legislation in December 2017, spousal maintenance was capable of being classified as deductible by the payor spouse for federal income tax purposes and taxable income to the recipient spouse. As a result of the 2017 federal tax legislation, commencing in 2019, spousal maintenance is not deductible by the payor spouse and is not taxable income to the recipient spouse. The guideline advisory amount of maintenance in statute, and the definitions used for calculating gross income and adjusted gross income for maintenance and child support awards, reflects the anticipated tax consequences to the payor and recipient under prior law.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1385	Colorado HB 18-1385 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Don Coram Dylan Roberts	8	12	2	2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a798c06d-974c-41b2-9863-a6c6663a003e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1385	ac2595753bce39dede86504dfc78ec84a395b94a2c19327445ca744539b15ea6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1385 (2018A) — Domestic Relations Changes Due To Federal Tax Law

Prior to the enactment of federal tax legislation in December 2017, spousal maintenance was capable of being classified as deductible by the payor spouse for federal income tax purposes and taxable income to the recipient spouse. As a result of the 2017 federal tax legislation, commencing in 2019, spousal maintenance is not deductible by the payor spouse and is not taxable income to the recipient spouse. The guideline advisory amount of maintenance in statute, and the definitions used for calculating gross income and adjusted gross income for maintenance and child support awards, reflects the anticipated tax consequences to the payor and recipient under prior law.

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 (04/12/2018) (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 (05/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-24T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+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 Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 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
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a798c06d-974c-41b2-9863-a6c6663a003e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).