republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-096.md

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Bill	Modernize "Mental Retardation" Terminology	Statutory Revision Committee. The bill modernizes and makes nonsubstantive changes to provisions of statute that use terms like 'mental retardation' or 'mentally retarded' by replacing the terms with more appropriate 'intellectual and developmental disability' language.(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 18-096	Colorado SB 18-096 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Beth Martinez Humenik Dan Thurlow	9	13	2	2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00	2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/67239491-1674-4ab0-ba78-beb11b75e514	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-096	ef9261f14b4bc5010ff1dbfb7342eb0f4f81ac5822f4c5e45b614f0a868aa544	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-096 (2018A) — Modernize "Mental Retardation" Terminology

Statutory Revision Committee. The bill modernizes and makes nonsubstantive changes to provisions of statute that use terms like 'mental retardation' or 'mentally retarded' by replacing the terms with more appropriate 'intellectual and developmental disability' language.(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 (03/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/13/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
• Dan Thurlow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/05/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services 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/67239491-1674-4ab0-ba78-beb11b75e514. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).