republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1176.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sunset Offender Reentry Grant Program"
description: "Sunset Process - House Judiciary Committee. Under current law, a grant program exists in the department of corrections (department) to provide funding to eligible community-based organizations that provide reentry services to offenders. The grant program is scheduled to repeal on September 1, 2018. The bill reschedules the repeal of the grant program to September 1, 2023. The bill also provides that, in awarding grants from the grant program, the department shall release as much as one quarter of the amount annually appropriated to the grant program to an intermediary at the beginning of each fiscal year. The intermediary shall determine how much of this amount is awarded to each community partner as an advance portion of grant money to be awarded to the community partner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1176"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1176 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cole Wist", "John Cooke", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-02T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cd6fd23-afb0-4f5d-8f04-c33a18bfbb05"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1176"
source_hash: "149a744fa5fa140aee143c2a0addd1410068478046e222695745f62b130c7059"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 18-1176 (2018A) — Sunset Offender Reentry Grant Program

Sunset Process - House Judiciary Committee. Under current law, a grant program exists in the department of corrections (department) to provide funding to eligible community-based organizations that provide reentry services to offenders. The grant program is scheduled to repeal on September 1, 2018. The bill reschedules the repeal of the grant program to September 1, 2023. The bill also provides that, in awarding grants from the grant program, the department shall release as much as one quarter of the amount annually appropriated to the grant program to an intermediary at the beginning of each fiscal year. The intermediary shall determine how much of this amount is awarded to each community partner as an advance portion of grant money to be awarded to the community partner.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018a/bills/cr/2018a_hb1176_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/13/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/16/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/30/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/30/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1176_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **48–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cole Wist — primary (person)
- John Cooke — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8cd6fd23-afb0-4f5d-8f04-c33a18bfbb05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).