republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-076.md

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Bill	Ban Vote Trading	The bill makes it a misdemeanor criminal offense for a person to trade a vote or offer to trade a vote with another elector in this state or a person in another state in exchange for the other person's vote for or against a particular candidate, ballot issue, or ballot question.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-076	Colorado SB 18-076 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Jovan Melton Kevin Lundberg	9	19	5	2018-01-12T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/67c2fb73-925e-4adb-832b-8361f08bc638	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-076	783fbb54a2a3c22174f4c96680c6a4823318a75bc260ac4fc5fc7c91785494a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-076 (2018A) — Ban Vote Trading

The bill makes it a misdemeanor criminal offense for a person to trade a vote or offer to trade a vote with another elector in this state or a person in another state in exchange for the other person's vote for or against a particular candidate, ballot issue, or ballot question.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/13/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–29 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 20–31 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Jovan Melton — primary (person)
• Kevin Lundberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/11/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/10/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2018-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2018-02-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-01-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67c2fb73-925e-4adb-832b-8361f08bc638. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).