republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-245.md

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Bill	Allow Natural Occurring Radioactive Material Rules	Current law allows the state board of health to adopt rules concerning the disposal of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) only after the federal environmental protection agency (EPA) has adopted rules concerning the disposal of NORM. The EPA has not adopted the rules. The bill repeals this prohibition and requires the state board to adopt rules, which must also regulate technologically enhanced NORM (TENORM), by December 31, 2020.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-245	Colorado SB 18-245 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Jeni James Arndt John Cooke	8	13	3	2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00	2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b0fba3d5-3de4-418a-b88a-c65a415deb38	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-245	b903067ec20dad572a379387a27efde011aaea2b42f34a4124e76fd8c318fe6a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-245 (2018A) — Allow Natural Occurring Radioactive Material Rules

Current law allows the state board of health to adopt rules concerning the disposal of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) only after the federal environmental protection agency (EPA) has adopted rules concerning the disposal of NORM. The EPA has not adopted the rules. The bill repeals this prohibition and requires the state board to adopt rules, which must also regulate technologically enhanced NORM (TENORM), by December 31, 2020.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMEND — 33–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 54–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources introduction
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0fba3d5-3de4-418a-b88a-c65a415deb38. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).