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type: "Bill"
title: "Free-standing Emergency Facility As Safe Haven"
description: "The bill expands Colorado's safe haven laws to include staff members of community clinic emergency centers as persons allowed to take temporary physical custody of infants 72 hours old or younger when the infant is voluntarily surrendered by its parent or parents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "SB 18-050"
citation: "Colorado SB 18-050 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Coleman", "Jim Smallwood", "Marc Catlin"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71e10acd-e733-48f1-8ab0-430b82364cb5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-050"
source_hash: "6f54a8f4670292929eacd833db9217f0e8266b0bf2c157523dcfb256cd299fcd"
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 SB 18-050 (2018A) — Free-standing Emergency Facility As Safe Haven
The bill expands Colorado's safe haven laws to include staff members of community clinic emergency centers as persons allowed to take temporary physical custody of infants 72 hours old or younger when the infant is voluntarily surrendered by its parent or parents.
## 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_sb050_h_hie_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/22/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/01/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/18/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050shhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/16/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050hie_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (01/23/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (02/21/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (02/20/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_050_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- REPASS — **350** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **350** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **610** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **350** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- James Coleman — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-26T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment `introduction`
- **2018-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2018-01-17T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71e10acd-e733-48f1-8ab0-430b82364cb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).