Fabio
80 lines
5.0 KiB
Markdown
80 lines
5.0 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Allow Natural Occurring Radioactive Material Rules"
|
||
description: "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."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
|
||
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2018A"
|
||
identifier: "SB 18-245"
|
||
citation: "Colorado SB 18-245 (2018A)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Jeni James Arndt", "John Cooke"]
|
||
version_count: 8
|
||
action_count: 13
|
||
vote_count: 3
|
||
first_action: "2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00"
|
||
last_action: "2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0fba3d5-3de4-418a-b88a-c65a415deb38"
|
||
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-245"
|
||
source_hash: "b903067ec20dad572a379387a27efde011aaea2b42f34a4124e76fd8c318fe6a"
|
||
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 18-245 (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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018a/bills/cr/2018a_sb245_h_agr_001.pdf)
|
||
2. **Engrossed (05/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_eng.pdf)
|
||
3. **Final Act (05/17/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_enr.pdf)
|
||
4. **Introduced (04/16/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_01.pdf)
|
||
5. **Reengrossed (05/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_ren.pdf)
|
||
6. **Rerevised (05/08/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_rer.pdf)
|
||
7. **Revised (05/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_rev.pdf)
|
||
8. **Signed Act (06/06/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_245_signed.pdf)
|
||
|
||
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0fba3d5-3de4-418a-b88a-c65a415deb38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
|
||
|