republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-234.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Human Remains Disposition Sale Businesses	The bill makes it unlawful under the 'Mortuary Science Code' for a person to own more than a 10% indirect interest in a funeral establishment or crematory while simultaneously owning interest in a nontransplant tissue bank. The bill requires nontransplant tissue banks to:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-234	Colorado SB 18-234 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Don Coram Larry Crowder Marc Catlin Tracy Kraft-Tharp	12	16	4	2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f2804b37-1feb-4820-afde-5f76d9a7a195	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-234	a33fa0d0dcff6254e64d83221500f049076e5e6cb3b9ab078ded4f77401c9acd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-234 (2018A) — Human Remains Disposition Sale Businesses

The bill makes it unlawful under the 'Mortuary Science Code' for a person to own more than a 10% indirect interest in a funeral establishment or crematory while simultaneously owning interest in a nontransplant tissue bank. The bill requires nontransplant tissue banks to:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/30/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 19–16 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 19–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 56–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Larry Crowder — primary (person)
• Marc Catlin — primary (person)
• Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-30T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2804b37-1feb-4820-afde-5f76d9a7a195. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).