republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-145.md

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Bill	Implement Employment First Recommendations	The bill requires the department of labor and employment and the state medical services board in the department of health care policy and financing to promulgate rules that require all providers of supported employment services for persons with disabilities to obtain a nationally recognized supported employment training certificate or earn a nationally recognized supported employment certification relating to supported employment services. The rules must specify time frames for completion of the training or certification. The time frames must provide for training to be completed over a 5-year period, subject to appropriations for reimbursement of vendors. The state medical services board shall adopt rules for administering the reimbursements to vendors, which must be $300 for each certification exam and $1,200 for each training program certificate, which includes reimbursement for both the cost of training and wages paid to employees during training.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-145	Colorado SB 18-145 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Joann Ginal John Kefalas	11	16	4	2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5e096e01-0b1a-4042-af7e-f3b4edc2ad4c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-145	f07956bc570398ee74e491165c9f64b86462b5568f3e2e256c0221f8e07df568	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-145 (2018A) — Implement Employment First Recommendations

The bill requires the department of labor and employment and the state medical services board in the department of health care policy and financing to promulgate rules that require all providers of supported employment services for persons with disabilities to obtain a nationally recognized supported employment training certificate or earn a nationally recognized supported employment certification relating to supported employment services. The rules must specify time frames for completion of the training or certification. The time frames must provide for training to be completed over a 5-year period, subject to appropriations for reimbursement of vendors. The state medical services board shall adopt rules for administering the reimbursements to vendors, which must be $300 for each certification exam and $1,200 for each training program certificate, which includes reimbursement for both the cost of training and wages paid to employees during training.

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 (01/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/11/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 29–6 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 34–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 38–27 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 30–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• John Kefalas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-18T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services 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
• 2018-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e096e01-0b1a-4042-af7e-f3b4edc2ad4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).