republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-042.md

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Bill	Concerning the creation of the agricultural workforce development program.	Young and Beginning Farmers Interim Study Committee. The bill requires the commissioner of agriculture to create, by rule, the agricultural workforce development program to provide incentives to agricultural businesses to hire interns. Qualified agricultural businesses may be reimbursed an amount not to exceed 50% of the actual cost of hiring a qualified intern. The rules must include specified criteria for qualifying businesses and interns participating in the program. Qualified internships must include at least 130 hours of work experience and cannot exceed 6 months in duration. The program is repealed on July 1, 2024.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-042	Colorado SB 18-042 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Kerry Donovan Larry Crowder Marc Catlin	11	17	5	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5718e463-3bc9-49c5-81c3-11aa5dc0b4f1	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-042	82fc39bea6bb5f8b935629c3a8e539a464328e656de6fc9c040973d117ab243c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-042 (2018A) — Concerning the creation of the agricultural workforce development program.

Young and Beginning Farmers Interim Study Committee. The bill requires the commissioner of agriculture to create, by rule, the agricultural workforce development program to provide incentives to agricultural businesses to hire interns. Qualified agricultural businesses may be reimbursed an amount not to exceed 50% of the actual cost of hiring a qualified intern. The rules must include specified criteria for qualifying businesses and interns participating in the program. Qualified internships must include at least 130 hours of work experience and cannot exceed 6 months in duration. The program is repealed on July 1, 2024.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/11/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/30/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 49–16 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 50–15 (pass) · lower
• RECEDE — 59–6 (pass) · lower
• ADHERE — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 22–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
• Larry Crowder — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — 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 Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Adherence - Result was to Recede
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Adhere
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources introduction
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5718e463-3bc9-49c5-81c3-11aa5dc0b4f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).