republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-243.md

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Bill	Retail Sales Alcohol Beverages	Under current law, effective January 1, 2019, the limitation on the maximum alcohol content of fermented malt beverages, also referred to as '3.2% beer', is eliminated, thereby allowing grocery stores, convenience stores, and any other person currently licensed or licensed in the future to sell fermented malt beverages for consumption on or off the licensed premises to sell fermented malt beverages containing more than 3.2% alcohol by weight or 4% alcohol by volume, referred to as 'malt liquor'.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-243	Colorado SB 18-243 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Chris Holbert Daneya Esgar Hugh McKean Lucia Guzman	13	18	15	2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00	2018-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/993d8c83-6977-4163-b52f-383ad633391e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-243	5e14b77075917a468f74372de33fbed42f037905105e22388090d710f52a5102	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-243 (2018A) — Retail Sales Alcohol Beverages

Under current law, effective January 1, 2019, the limitation on the maximum alcohol content of fermented malt beverages, also referred to as '3.2% beer', is eliminated, thereby allowing grocery stores, convenience stores, and any other person currently licensed or licensed in the future to sell fermented malt beverages for consumption on or off the licensed premises to sell fermented malt beverages containing more than 3.2% alcohol by weight or 4% alcohol by volume, referred to as 'malt liquor'.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Conference Committee (05/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/30/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA3 (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. PA4 (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Reengrossed (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Rerevised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
12. Revised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
13. Signed Act (06/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · lower
• ADOPT — 38–26 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–30 (pass) · lower
• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 29–6 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 31–34 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 22–13 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 10–25 (fail) · lower
• ADHERE — 31–33 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR — 11–24 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 34–31 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 28–7 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 34–31 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 30–35 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Holbert — primary (person)
• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Hugh McKean — primary (person)
• Lucia Guzman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services + Appropriations introduction
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Lay Over Amended
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/993d8c83-6977-4163-b52f-383ad633391e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).