republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-002.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	Financing Rural Broadband Deployment	Section 1 of the bill amends the definition of "broadband network" to increase the speed of downstream broadband internet service from at least 4 megabits per second to at least 10 megabits per second and the definition of "unserved area" to refer to areas that are unincorporated, or within a city with a population of fewer than 7,500 inhabitants, and that are not receiving federal broadband support.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-002	Colorado SB 18-002 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Crisanta Duran Don Coram Jerry Sonnenberg KC Becker	11	18	6	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bd68c66b-83ee-4117-83b2-4aac11248dd7	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-002	0862102ed493efc12d06a40a17748804862eb90d85a8b29664b482559d5c02b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-002 (2018A) — Financing Rural Broadband Deployment

Section 1 of the bill amends the definition of "broadband network" to increase the speed of downstream broadband internet service from at least 4 megabits per second to at least 10 megabits per second and the definition of "unserved area" to refer to areas that are unincorporated, or within a city with a population of fewer than 7,500 inhabitants, and that are not receiving federal broadband support.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (2) (02/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (03/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• COW * — 16–18 (fail) · upper
• REPASS — 29–6 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 50–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Crisanta Duran — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
• KC Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
• 2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources introduction
• 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2018-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/07/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd68c66b-83ee-4117-83b2-4aac11248dd7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).