republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1343.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans' Service-to-career Program"
description: "Current law contains a pilot program to assist veterans, veterans' spouses, and other eligible participants in obtaining employment and provide support services to seek and obtain employment. The bill continues the program and includes funding for the current pilot program and the expanded program. The bill adds persons who may participate in the program and addresses veterans who have barriers to employment. The department is required to develop an evaluation methodology to measure program effectiveness."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1343"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1343 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kent Lambert", "Nancy Todd", "Pete Lee", "Terri Carver"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c881362f-88e2-40f6-a65f-c2ca5af77574"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1343"
source_hash: "856eb65451068e7e4d1526536d35320277fa991fe8cf9f098c64f03d37c4c492"
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 18-1343 (2018A) — Veterans' Service-to-career Program

Current law contains a pilot program to assist veterans, veterans' spouses, and other eligible participants in obtaining employment and provide support services to seek and obtain employment. The bill continues the program and includes funding for the current pilot program and the expanded program. The bill adds persons who may participate in the program and addresses veterans who have barriers to employment. The department is required to develop an evaluation methodology to measure program effectiveness.

## 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_hb1343_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/18/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/13/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/26/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343sapp_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/27/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/24/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1343_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **48–17** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **51–13** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **29–5** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **50–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kent Lambert — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)
- Terri Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c881362f-88e2-40f6-a65f-c2ca5af77574`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).