republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-268.md

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Bill	Design Bid Build Highway Project Contract Awards	If there are fewer than 3 bidders on a design bid build highway project, a provision of current law generally prohibits the department of transportation (CDOT) from awarding a contract in an amount that is more than 10% over CDOT's estimate on the project, but allows the executive director of CDOT (executive director) to award a contract that is more than 10% but less than 25% over the estimate if the estimate is less than $1,000,000. The bill authorizes a designee of the executive director to award such a contract.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-268	Colorado SB 18-268 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Dominick Moreno Ray Scott	9	16	4	2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3ff03e6f-55e4-4e8e-82e9-4ac0bdb5ec1e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-268	d6720b0a8ce62eb9eaf6faf65a2879c6a6863a90abfa2f72dbcbab2a4e8c6490	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-268 (2018A) — Design Bid Build Highway Project Contract Awards

If there are fewer than 3 bidders on a design bid build highway project, a provision of current law generally prohibits the department of transportation (CDOT) from awarding a contract in an amount that is more than 10% over CDOT's estimate on the project, but allows the executive director of CDOT (executive director) to award a contract that is more than 10% but less than 25% over the estimate if the estimate is less than $1,000,000. The bill authorizes a designee of the executive director to award such a contract.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/20/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/04/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 34–1 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 33–2 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 36–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Ray Scott — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-29T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-15T06:00:00+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
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/03/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy 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 Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ff03e6f-55e4-4e8e-82e9-4ac0bdb5ec1e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).