republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-229.md

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Bill	Colorado Department of Education Student Teacher Criminal History Record Checks	The bill permits a student in an educator preparation program who is seeking field experiences in a school (student) to submit his or her fingerprints to the Colorado bureau of investigation (bureau) for the purpose of performing a fingerprint-based criminal history record check for the student. Upon completion of the fingerprint-based criminal history record check, the bureau must forward the results to the department of education (department). If the fingerprint-based criminal history record check of a student performed pursuant to this section reveals a record of arrest without a disposition, the department is required to perform a name-based criminal history record check of that student.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-229	Colorado SB 18-229 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Beth Martinez Humenik Kim Ransom	10	17	2	2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/050fdb3f-4f05-477c-8f08-10d8f152868f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-229	3b2e94fd76a3c33b77a117fd1d7b1fe10515086f79a57b68a8d2097b00edc049	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-229 (2018A) — Colorado Department of Education Student Teacher Criminal History Record Checks

The bill permits a student in an educator preparation program who is seeking field experiences in a school (student) to submit his or her fingerprints to the Colorado bureau of investigation (bureau) for the purpose of performing a fingerprint-based criminal history record check for the student. Upon completion of the fingerprint-based criminal history record check, the bureau must forward the results to the department of education (department). If the fingerprint-based criminal history record check of a student performed pursuant to this section reveals a record of arrest without a disposition, the department is required to perform a name-based criminal history record check of that student.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
• Kim Ransom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-24T06:00:00+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 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Lay Over Amended
• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/050fdb3f-4f05-477c-8f08-10d8f152868f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).