republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-095.md

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Bill	Outdated References To "Illegitimate" Children	Statutory Revision Committee. The bill removes or modernizes outdated statutory references to a 'legitimate' or 'illegitimate' child and a 'child born out of wedlock'. Colorado only recognizes parentage of a child and acknowledges that the parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and every parent, regardless of the marital status of the parents.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-095	Colorado SB 18-095 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Beth Martinez Humenik Edie Hooton Hugh McKean Rachel Zenzinger	10	13	4	2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1a9a95d7-be61-4498-b04c-02f75bf9a1b2	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-095	5e81cdcb1e13ae86370cf4902b854b1407e14b86a0b02d3505e3b5eaae0656c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-095 (2018A) — Outdated References To "Illegitimate" Children

Statutory Revision Committee. The bill removes or modernizes outdated statutory references to a 'legitimate' or 'illegitimate' child and a 'child born out of wedlock'. Colorado only recognizes parentage of a child and acknowledges that the parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and every parent, regardless of the marital status of the parents.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/13/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
• Edie Hooton — primary (person)
• Hugh McKean — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-23T06:00:00+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
• 2018-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2018-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a9a95d7-be61-4498-b04c-02f75bf9a1b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).