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Bill	Free-standing Emergency Facility As Safe Haven	The bill expands Colorado's safe haven laws to include staff members of community clinic emergency centers as persons allowed to take temporary physical custody of infants 72 hours old or younger when the infant is voluntarily surrendered by its parent or parents.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-050	Colorado SB 18-050 (2018A)	bill		enacted	James Coleman Jim Smallwood Marc Catlin	10	13	4	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/71e10acd-e733-48f1-8ab0-430b82364cb5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-050	6f54a8f4670292929eacd833db9217f0e8266b0bf2c157523dcfb256cd299fcd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-050 (2018A) — Free-standing Emergency Facility As Safe Haven

The bill expands Colorado's safe haven laws to include staff members of community clinic emergency centers as persons allowed to take temporary physical custody of infants 72 hours old or younger when the infant is voluntarily surrendered by its parent or parents.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (01/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (02/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (02/20/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-26T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2018-01-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71e10acd-e733-48f1-8ab0-430b82364cb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).