| Bill # | Short Title | Bill Summary | Most Recent Status | Fiscal Note Status |
| HB10-1013 | Modifications To School Finance Admin | Cleans up various administrative provisions of school finance law, including timing of when charter schools receive facilities funding. | 06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1015 | Stable Funding For Small Sch Districts | Creates a stable-funding pilot program for small school districts that would guarantee state support for five years if such districts worked with neighboring districts or BOCES to achieve administration efficiencies. | 02/11/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1026 | Quality Child Care Grant Incentive Prog | Establishes a grant program to provide incentives for improving the quality of early childhood programs. (Subject to federal funding.) | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1028 | Early Childhood Universal Application | Sets up a committee to develop a universal application for various kinds of early childhood services. | 04/05/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1030 | Early Childhood Teacher Scholarships | Creates a scholarship program for early-childhood education workers who are seeking further education. (Subject to federal or other non-state funding.) | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1034 | School Speech-language Pathology Asst | The bill allows the department of education to issue an emergency authorization to a school speech-language pathology assistant (SLP assistant) who has not yet met the statutory requirements for a school SLP assistant authorization. | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1036 | Pub Sch Transparency Fin Info On-line | Enacts the Public School Financial Transparency Act, which would set a three-year schedule for school districts and other education entities to post budgets, audits, financial statements, salary schedules, spending records and investment performance reports online. | 04/12/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1037 | Extend Supplemental On-line | The bill continues the supplemental on-line education grant program and the funding of a contract for the provision of supplemental on-line education services. | 03/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1040 | Collegeinvest Lifelong Learning Savings | Allows adult to establish CollegeInvest accounts to their own use in paying for postsecondary education costs. | 02/12/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1044 | Neighborhood Youth Org Requirements | Establishes a voluntary licensing program for neighborhood youth organizations such as the Boys and Girls Clubs. Bill is designed to clarify whether child care licensing applies to such groups. | 04/14/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1054 | Higher Ed Safety Protocols Presentation | Requires institutions of higher education to provide annual notification to students of campus emergency procedures. | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1064 | Ineligible Student Arbitration Appeal | The bill requires a student who is found by a school, school district, or any organization or association to be ineligible to participate in an extracurricular or interscholastic activity or who is otherwise sanctioned to complete an appeal process before filing a petition or complaint with a group of sitting or retired judges or other group of neutral arbitrators. | 03/31/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1066 | CDE Food Procure Distrib | The bill requires the department of education (department) to procure approved food and beverages for and distribute them to any board of cooperative services (BOCES) that contracts with the department for the service. The state board of education is required to promulgate rules identifying approved food and beverages. A BOCES may contract with the department or one or more food and beverage distributors, or any combination thereof, for the provision of food and beverages. | 02/11/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| HB10-1067 | Fort Lewis Cost Of Instruction | Currently, the state must fund 100% of the cost of tuition for Native American students enrolled at Fort Lewis college. The bill maintains that requirement for in-state students, but changes it to 100% of the cost of instruction for nonresident students. | 01/25/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1071 | Forestry Eliminate Experience Reqmnt | The bill eliminates the requirement that a person employed in a technical forestry capacity by the board of governors of the Colorado state university system possess a minimum of 2 years' experience in forest practice. | 03/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1072 | Create Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund | Converts the state's general fund reserve to a fiscal stability fund that over time would grow to 15 percent of general fund appropriations. Sets a funding mechanism and rules for use. | 03/10/2010 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1082 | Bar Felons From School Employment | The bill enacts the "Felon-free Schools Act of 2010" (the act), which prohibits a school district or public school from employing as a nonlicensed employee a person who has a conviction for certain enumerated criminal offenses. The act also amends existing mandatory disqualifications for licensed educators to include any conviction for a felony drug offense. | 02/22/2010 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1107 | Urban Renewal Area Ag Lands | Changes procedures for local governments in using urban renewal designations on agricultural land, which can affect school district tax revenues. | 04/14/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1126 | Priority-based Budgeting For CO | Requires the state to use a two-year priority-based budget process; reduces role of Joint Budget Committee. | 02/09/2010 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1131 | Colorado Kids Outdoors Grant Program | The bill creates the Colorado kids outdoors grant program (grant program) in the department of natural resources to provide grants for programs that allow Colorado youth to participate in outdoor activities in the state, including but not limited to programs that emphasize the environment and experiential, field-based learning. The grant program will be funded through gifts, grants, and donations. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1136 | K-12 Schools Emergency Safety Drills | Commencing with the 2010-11 academic year, the bill requires primary and secondary public schools to conduct at least 2 emergency safety protocol drills each academic year in addition to fire evacuation drills. | 02/11/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1147 | Safer Streets For Nonmotorized Transport | Requires various state agencies to cooperate in providing educational materials about bicycle safety. | 06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1153 | Modify Composition Of PERA Board | The bill modifies the composition of the board of trustees (board) of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) to make a majority of the board non-members of PERA. | 02/11/2010 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1157 | County Fin Assist Higher Ed | Allows local governments and college boards, with voter approval, to levy sales or property taxes to help support four-year and community colleges. | 02/02/2010 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1165 | St Land Bd Bond Convey Local Gov | Section 2 of the bill allows the state board of land commissioners (board) to convey land to units of local government if the conveyance would add value to adjoining or nearby state trust property, benefit board operations, or comply with local land use regulations. Sections 3 and 4 credit all financial warranties collected by the board that have been forfeited or are required for remediation activities to the newly created financial warranty account of the state land board trust administration fund and continuously appropriate the warranties for the remediation or other activities on the affected property. | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1171 | Repeal Of School Reporting Requirements | The bill repeals or modifies certain education data reporting requirements. | 06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1178 | Transparency In The Use Of Grant Moneys | The bill requires that each state agency that receives grant moneys submit a report to the joint budget committee of the general assembly specifying information about the grant. | 04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1183 | Alternative School Finance Models | The bill creates the alternative school funding models pilot program (pilot program) to encourage school districts and charter schools to collect data that will be used to compare the effects of alternative school funding models with those of the current school funding method. | 04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1206 | Voting Rights Students CSU System | The bill grants voting rights to student members of the board of governors of the Colorado state university system. The bill directs the governor to appoint the student members. | 03/18/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1207 | Modifications To PERA | The bill would change the calculation of retirement benefits, define actuarial necessity, require more state treasurer oversight of PERA, require PERA to use a different rate of estimated return, require employees to contribute 10 percent of salary, eliminate the SAED and AED, require annual legislative review of contributions, ban purchase of service credits, lower the COLA and offer defined contributions plans to all employees. | 02/23/2010 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1208 | Higher Ed Statewide Transfer Agreements | The bill requires statewide degree transfer agreements (transfer agreements) to transfer associate of arts (AA) degree courses and associate of science (AS) degree courses from one state institution of higher education (institution) to another. The measure sets a deadline for a process that's already underway. | 05/05/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1232 | School Bus Vehicle | The bill defines the term "school vehicle", amends the definition of "school bus", and amends certain statutory provisions that refer to "school vehicle" and "school bus" to clarify when each term applies. | 04/28/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1253 | Gifted & Exceptional Children Ed Act | The bill distinguishes, where necessary, the education of gifted children from that of children with disabilities in the "Exceptional Children's Educational Act". The state board of education is required to appoint a gifted education advisory committee to assist with issues related to gifted education services and programs. The proper use of funding for the education of gifted children is clarified. Language is added in the bill concerning the determination of giftedness and the creation of a gifted child's advanced learning plan, including what is required to be included in that plan. The bill makes conforming amendments. | 03/04/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| HB10-1254 | Assessment High School Graduation Reqmnt | The bill requires the state board of education to include in its graduation guidelines a requirement that each student in each public high school in the state, before being permitted to graduate from high school, achieve either: (1) a score at the proficient achievement level or higher on the 10th-grade statewide assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics; or (2) a score on a postsecondary and workforce readiness assessment indicating that the student has attained postsecondary and workforce readiness. Certain students with disabilities and children participating in a nonpublic, home-based educational program are exempt from the requirement. | 02/25/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1272 | Contrib Limits Sch Dist & RTD Directors | Proposes campaign contribution limits for school board and RTD director elections. | 03/23/2010 House Second Reading Lost with Amendments | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1273 | Arts Ed For Workforce Development | Requires an arts course of some kind for high school graduation. | 05/18/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1274 | Out-of-home Juvenile Transition Pub Sch | Establishes notification procedures for letting schools know when a student is returning to school from a treatment facility. | 05/25/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1295 | Income Tax Credits For Nonpublic Ed | Proposes income tax credits for the cost of private schools. | 02/24/2010 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1296 | Incent Enroll Qual Kids In Private Sch | Alternative proposal for private-schools tax credits. | 02/23/2010 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1301 | Suppl Approp Dept Of Higher Ed | Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of higher education. | 03/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| HB10-1318 | Minimum State Aid For School Districts | Changes the formula for state aid for a limited number of school districts with high levels of local revenue. | 03/22/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1335 | BOCES School Food Program | Authorizes BOCES to offer school food services. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1336 | CDPS Expenditures School Safety | The bill creates the school safety resource center cash fund and authorizes the Department of Public Safety to solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations for the purpose of implementing the school safety resource center. | 06/05/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1337 | Teacher Comp Deaf And Blind School | The bill provides that, for any budget year, a teacher employed by the Colorado school for the deaf and the blind shall not receive an increase in compensation unless the general assembly appropriates such an increase to the department of education, school for the deaf and the blind, in the general appropriations act. | 02/19/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1343 | Charter Schools Governance Standards | The bill directs the state board of education (state board) to adopt quality standards for charter school operations, finance, and governance by January 1, 2011, based on nationally recognized industry standards. Each charter school authorizer is directed to incorporate the standards adopted by the state board into its policies and systems for charter school approval, renewal, oversight, and accreditation. | 03/08/2010 House Committee on Education Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1344 | Authorizing Standards Charter Schools | The bill defines and describes specific quality standards to which school district boards of education and the state charter school institute, in their capacity as chartering authorities of charter schools, must adhere on or before July 1, 2011. | 03/08/2010 House Committee on Education Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1345 | Emergency Powers Over Charter Schools | The bill grants a school district board of education or the state charter school institute that has authorized a charter school (authorizer) the ability to request from the commissioner of education (commissioner) the power for an external entity to have control over a charter school that is considered to be in an emergency situation (charter respondent). The commissioner may grant a temporary order, a preliminary order, an order of reorganization, or an order authorizing a petition for bankruptcy (order) if all parties have been given notice and an opportunity to be heard. The commissioner may appoint the authorizer or a separate entity to act as a fiduciary to take control over the operations of the school. Powers that are permitted and prohibited under an order are outlined in the bill. The processes for obtaining and issuing an order are detailed. If an authorizer or entity appointed by the commissioner as a fiduciary determines that excess benefit transactions have occurred, as defined in the bill, the options available to the authorizer or fiduciary are set forth. A fiduciary or authorizer and the commissioner are granted immunity for actions taken in good faith. | 05/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1369 | Financing Of Public Schools | The bill amends the "Public School Finance Act of 1994" to modify the funding for public schools from kindergarten through the twelfth grade for the 2010-11 budget year. | 05/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1375 | Metro State College Finance Authority | Capital Development Committee. The bill adds the board of trustees for Metropolitan state college of Denver to the list of higher education governing boards that may exercise the power of eminent domain. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1376 | Long Appropriations Bill | Main 2010-11 budget bill | 04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| HB10-1383 | Funding Financial Assistance Higher Ed | Budget Package Bill. The bill expands the use of the collegeinvest scholarship trust fund to include funding need-based financial aid. The bill makes a one-time transfer of $29.8 million from the collegeinvest scholarship trust fund to the general fund. The bill removes the requirement for fiscal year 2010-11 concerning increasing appropriations for student financial assistance. | 06/07/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1406 | Green Schools Energy Efficiency | The bill requires newly constructed or redesigned school buildings and structures to satisfy minimum energy-efficiency design standards. The state fire suppression administrator, in consultation with the governor's energy office, shall establish and adopt rules concerning energy-efficient design and construction of school buildings and Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute. Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. structures, which rules, at a minimum, shall ensure that a school building or structure achieves a satisfactory certification rating based on an energy and environmental design rating system developed by a nonprofit trade organization. | 04/26/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1412 | Charter School & Authorizer Standards | The bill creates the charter school and charter authorizer standards review committee (committee), which is charged with making recommendations to the state board of education (board) and the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning standards for charter schools and charter school authorizers. (None), The bill creates the 13-member committee with specific appointments reflecting charter school and school district interests and expertise. The bill sets forth procedures for the committee and outlines the areas in which the committee is required to make recommendations. After receiving the committee's recommendations, the board is required to adopt by rule standards for charter schools and charter school authorizers based on those recommendations. The committee is repealed, effective July 1, 2012. | 05/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1419 | Charter School Application Process | Would have set required procedures for charter school applications and appeals. | 04/29/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1425 | DPS Postretirement Employment Limit | Cleanup legislation to the 2009 law that merged the DPS retirement system into PERA. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HB10-1430 | New K-12 Ed Assessment System | Would change the statewide testing system in the high school grades, eventually abolish CSAP tests and place limits on future statewide testing. | 05/12/2010 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adhere | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HCR10-1002 | GA Authority To Enact Addl Ed Funding | Proposed constitutional amendment to exempt education-related tax increases from the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. | 05/12/2010 House Third Reading Lost | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HCR10-1007 | Transfer Of GOCO Moneys To State Ed Fund | Would allow diversion of lottery revenue from the GoCo program to the State Education Fund under special circumstances. | 05/03/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| HJR10-1030 | Avoiding Teacher Layoffs | Advisory resolutions urging school districts and unions to preserve jobs by avoiding salary increases. | 05/03/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| SB10-001 | Eliminate PERA's Unfunded Liability | Makes changes to fully amortize the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of each of the Public Employee Retirement Association's divisions and thereby reach a 100% funded ratio for each division within the next 30 years. Imposes various increases in employee and employer contributions, changes some retiree benefits and makes various changes in retirement eligibility and other provisions. | 02/23/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-003 | Higher Education Flexibility | Higher Education fiscal flexibility bill. Requires creation of five guaranteed-transfer degree programs by 2011, changes limits on foreign student enrollment, gives institutions more control over financial aid, gives institutions more flexibility in adopting their own fiscal and information technology rules and reduces construction project reporting requirements. | 06/09/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-005 | Continuity Of Services In Kindergarten | Creates a grant program to improve transition of students from the Colorado Preschool Program and Head Start to kindergarten. (Subject to federal or other non-state grants.) | 04/16/2010 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-008 | Average Daily Membership Study | Directs the Department of Education to contract for a study to evaluate the feasibility, design and impact of a system to determine pupil enrollment based on the average number of days that each pupil is enrolled in school during the school year (average daily membership) rather than based on a single count date. (Subject to federal or grant funding.) | 04/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-017 | Weighted Student Funding Formula Grants | Creates in the Department of Education a grant program to provide moneys to school districts for designing weighted student funding formulas and providing professional development for implementation of the formulas. (Subject to federal or grant funding.) | 01/27/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-018 | School Awards Program Fund | The bill authorizes the department of education to accept gifts, grants, and donations to the school awards program fund to pay for banners and trophies for schools that are identified as eligible to receive awards under the Colorado school awards program. | 03/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-026 | Duties Of College In Colorado | The bill transfers the college in Colorado division from the department of higher education to the department of education and specifies in statute the duties of the college in Colorado division. The bill also makes conforming amendments. | 05/10/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-036 | Program Results For Educator Preparation | Beginning July 1, 2011, the bill requires the department of education (department) to prepare an annual report on educator preparation program effectiveness using data collected through the educator identifier system from an educator in his or her first 3 years of placement. The department shall make the report available to the public on its web site. The state board of education will promulgate rules regarding the methods of data collection and the content of the report. The state board is further required to use the report in its review of educator preparation programs. The bill creates the state preparation and readiness of educators program fund for use by the department in implementing the provisions of the bill, and specifies that the department is not required to implement the bill until it receives sufficient moneys to do so. | 01/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-039 | Job Training Scholarship Programs | Creates a job retraining scholarship program to be administered by CollegeInvest. | 04/29/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-050 | Contract Renewal For K-12 Teachers | The bill increases from 3 to 5 years the required length of continuous employment that a probationary teacher shall have before being classified as a nonprobationary teacher. Once a teacher is classified as a nonprobationary teacher, he or she shall be given a 5-year contract that shall be renewed every 5 years thereafter if the teacher receives a satisfactory final cumulative written evaluation report at the end of the 5-year period. If the board of education of the employing school district is not going to renew the nonprobationary teacher's contract, the board will provide written notice to the teacher and provide him or her with the reasons why the contract is not being renewed. The bill makes conforming amendments. | 05/10/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-054 | Educ Services For Juv Charged As Adult | Requires a school district to provide educational services during the school year to a juvenile who is held, pending trial as an adult, in a jail located within the school district. | 05/25/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-056 | Immunization Information School Children | The bill requires the state charter school institute and each school district board of education to adopt and implement a policy requiring each school to annually provide parents and legal guardians with a paper or email copy of a standardized immunization document developed and updated, as instructed, by the department of public health and environment. | 03/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-058 | Eligibility Nursing Teacher Loan Forgive | The bill changes certain eligibility requirements for the nursing teacher loan forgiveness pilot program, including reducing the required employment in teaching from full time to half time and allowing the teaching position to begin within 2 years after the completion of the nursing teacher's advanced degree. | 04/20/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-059 | Colorado D.A.R.E. Checkoff | Creates the Colorado drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) fund in the state treasury. For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2010, but before January 1, 2013, the bill requires a voluntary contribution designation line for the fund to appear on state individual income tax return forms. | 03/09/2010 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-062 | Categorical Ed Programs | Takes funding for categorical programs out of the long appropriations bill and requires that categorical funding be set in a separate bill that is considered by both education committees. | 04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-064 | Institutions Apply For COF For Students | The bill allows an institution of higher education to apply for stipends from the college opportunity fund on behalf of an admitted student using the information in the student's admission application if the student agrees. | 05/26/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-065 | Suppl Approp Dept Of Education | Reduces by $110 million state K-12 support in 2009-10. Does not fund current year enrollment and at-risk increases. | 01/28/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| SB10-069 | Transfer K-12 Ed Spending Sav To HUTF | For the state fiscal years 2001-02 through 2010-11, the state constitution requires that the statewide base per pupil funding and total state funding for all categorical programs must grow annually by at least the rate of inflation plus an additional one percentage point. The constitution removes the requirement for the additional one percentage point for the state fiscal year 2011-12 and each fiscal year thereafter. The bill requires the amount calculated as the savings realized to be transferred to the highway users tax fund (HUTF) starting for the state fiscal year 2011-12. | 02/01/2010 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-079 | Mesa State College Program Authority | The bill amends the role and mission of Mesa state college to include additional liberal arts and sciences, professional, and technical degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. | 04/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-081 | Farm-to-school Interagency Task Force | In order to provide for the development of a state farm-to-school program, which will promote the consumption of nutritional foods provided by state agricultural producers, the bill creates the "Farm-to-School Healthy Kids Act", which establishes the interagency farm-to-school coordination task force (task force). The bill describes the composition and duties of the task force, and sets a future repeal date of December 31, 2013. | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-088 | Two-year College Degree Designation | The bill authorizes community colleges and junior colleges to offer 2-year degree programs with academic designation. Prior to offering the degree program, a community college must submit the degree program designation for review and approval by the state board for community colleges and occupational education and a junior college must submit the degree program designation for review and approval by its board of trustees. | 04/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-089 | Public Schools Religious Bill Of Rights | The bill establishes the "Religious Bill of Rights for Individuals Connected to Public Schools Act" (act), which requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt a religious bill of rights for public school students and parents and a religious bill of rights for public school teachers and employees (religious bills of rights) outlining each party's respective inalienable individual religious rights | 02/15/2010 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-091 | Sch Transparency On-line Fin Database | The bill enacts the "Public School Financial Transparency Act" (act), which requires each school district, district charter school, board of cooperative services, and institute charter school and the state charter school institute (local education provider) no later than September 1, 2011, to develop, maintain, and make publicly available a single, searchable, on-line, revenue and expenditure database (on-line database) that will allow a user to review at no cost information concerning moneys collected and expended by the local education provider. The act sets forth the specific information that each on-line database will include. The local education provider must provide the data in an open, structured data format that allows the user to download and systematically sort, search, and access all of the data. Each local education provider will update the data at least monthly, archive the data, make the data easily accessible from the local education provider's web site, and create a link to a service that allows users to be notified of updates to the on-line database. | 02/15/2010 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-101 | CO Mountain College Bachelor Degrees | The bill authorizes Colorado mountain college to offer baccalaureate degrees that address the needs of the communities within its service area. Steadman, Tapia, White | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-107 | Schools' Use Of American Indian Mascots | The bill requires each public high school of a school district and each institute charter high school that uses an American Indian mascot to either cease using the American Indian mascot or obtain approval for the continued use of the American Indian mascot or another American Indian mascot from the Colorado commission of Indian affairs (commission) on or before July 1, 2013. | 02/11/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-108 | Higher Ed Core Courses | Current law requires the Colorado commission on higher education (commission) to define a process whereby students enrolled in public institutions of higher education may test out of core courses and receive credit for those courses without paying tuition. The bill requires the commission to put this process in place for use beginning in the 2010-11 academic year. The bill allows a nonpublic institution of higher education (nonpublic institution) to choose to participate in the core course guidelines. Also, for a fee, a nonpublic institution may request the department of higher education (department) to review the nonpublic institution's core courses and include them in the matrix of core courses for which credit may transfer from one institution of higher education to another. A nonpublic institution that includes its courses in the matrix will also be included in the statewide transfer agreements for core course credits. The commission will set the amount of the fee to reflect the department's costs in reviewing the courses. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-111 | Institute Charter Schools | Makes various changes in Charter School Institute law, including allowing institute schools to join BOCES. | 04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-131 | Quality Full-day Kindergarten Incentives | Would have created financial incentives for high-quality kindergarten programs. | 02/25/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-150 | Temp Transfer Of Pub Sch Land Money | For the 2010-11 state fiscal year, the bill transfers to the state public school fund, instead of the permanent school fund, moneys not otherwise allocated from: * Interest or income earned on the investment of the moneys in the permanent school fund; * Proceeds received by the state for the sale of timber on public school lands, rental payments for the use and occupation of the surface of said lands, and rentals or lease payments for sand, gravel, clay, stone, coal, oil, gas, geothermal resources, gold, silver, or other minerals on said land; and * Royalties and other payments for the depletion or extraction of a natural resource on said lands. | 04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-154 | High-risk Student Alternative Ed Campus | Under current law, a public school that is identified as an alternative education campus is subject to different accreditation standards. One reason a public school may be identified as an alternative education campus is if more than 95% of the school's student population are "high-risk students". The bill expands the definition of "high-risk student" to include children with disabilities, migrant children, homeless children, children with a documented history of serious psychiatric or behavioral disorders, and children who are 2 or more years behind grade level as determined by statewide assessments or by other assessments approved by the department of education for this purpose. | 04/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | Fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-161 | Charter School Collaboratives | The bill authorizes a charter school to contract with a board of cooperative services or another charter school for buildings and services. The bill authorizes a board of cooperative services to contract with a district charter school or an institute charter school to provide services and buildings. The bill authorizes charter schools to form charter school collaboratives to perform any function appropriately performed by a charter school, including applying for state or federal grants. If the charter school collaborative was formed with the consent of the authorizers of the member charter schools, the collaborative may serve as a local education agency or administrative unit. | 05/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-191 | Principal And Teacher Effectiveness | Educator effectiveness bill that would make changes in teacher and principal evaluations and in teacher tenure. | 05/20/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-202 | Savings Accounts For Job Retraining | Creates CollegeInvest savings accounts for adult education and allows tax-deductable employer matches. | 06/09/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-205 | Sch Dist Bonded Indebtedness Elections | State law currently authorizes school districts to ask the eligible Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute. Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. electors in their districts for approval to issue bonded indebtedness and specifies the purposes for which a district may issue such bonded indebtedness. The bill creates a new purpose for which a district may issue bonded indebtedness. Specifically, it allows a district to ask its eligible electors for permission to issue bonded indebtedness to pay the costs that may be paid from the district's general fund, but only if Amendment 61, concerning state and local debt limitations, is adopted by the voters at the November 2010 general election and the eligible electors of the district approve a question to create debt for such purpose at the November 2010 general election or a subsequent election. | 05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-209 | Allocation National Forest Payments | Makes adjustments to split of federal forest revenues among some local governments, including school districts. | 06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-210 | Reading Incentive Program Grants | The bill authorizes the read-to-achieve board to award up to $1,000,000 per year to organizations that operate promise neighborhoods or choice neighborhoods, as described in federal law, to fund programs that pay incentives to students to read books. The organization must be operating the reading program with a public school or a public library. Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute. Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. To be eligible to apply, an organization must provide proof that it is approved for federal funding. The reading incentive grant program must be available to students enrolled in any of grades one through 5 in a public school within the boundaries of the promise or choice neighborhood. To receive the incentive, the student must read the book outside of class time and successfully complete a quiz on the book. | 05/10/2010 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-215 | State-supervised Lottery | The Colorado lottery commission (commission) is directed to promulgate rules to conduct new lotteries that are anticipated to result in an increase in the amount of net lottery proceeds generated during the first 12 months of operation so at least $100 million of additional net lottery proceeds would be allocated to the general fund of the state pursuant to the state constitution. However, the commission is not required to conduct such new lotteries if, prior to the commencement of Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. the new lotteries, any asset of the state is sold for at least $500 million and the sale proceeds are credited to the Colorado scholars cash fund. The commission is authorized to: * Enter into contracts to sell future net proceeds of the lottery generated by the new lotteries and is directed to transmit the proceeds from such contracts to the state treasurer to be credited to the Colorado scholars cash fund; and * Issue financial instruments, the principal of and interest thereon to be paid from future lottery revenues generated by the new lotteries. The Colorado scholars cash fund is created in the state treasury, which is to consist of certain moneys including most of the net lottery proceeds that would otherwise be transferred to the general fund pursuant to the state constitution. Moneys in the cash fund are to be annually appropriated to provide postsecondary education financial assistance. The state treasurer is authorized to use moneys in the cash fund to make payments pursuant to property sale contracts entered into by the commission. 10% of the net lottery proceeds that would otherwise be transferred to the general fund pursuant to the state constitution shall be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund, but the aggregate amount annually transferred to this fund is limited to $8 million. 5% of the net lottery proceeds that would otherwise be transferred to the general fund pursuant to the state constitution shall be transferred to the Colorado state veterans trust fund, but the aggregate amount annually transferred to this fund is limited to $3 million. | 05/05/2010 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SB10-216 | Change Ballot Order Statewide Measures | Currently, statewide ballot measures are required to appear in the following order on a ballot: Initiated amendments to the state constitution, referred amendments, initiated propositions to change the Colorado Revised Statutes, and referred propositions. The bill switches the order of referred and initiated measures, Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute. while keeping the order of amendments and propositions. Accordingly, beginning with the 2010 general election, the order of statewide ballot measures will be: Referred amendments, initiated amendments, referred propositions, and initiated propositions. | 06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SCR10-001 | Fiscal Policy Constitutional Commission | The concurrent resolution creates an additional way to amend the constitution through the creation of a temporary fiscal policy constitutional commission (commission). The commission is created for the purpose of reviewing the fiscal policy set forth in the state constitution. and, if appropriate, submitting one or more measures to amend the state constitution to the voters at the 2012 general election. | 05/11/2010 Senate Third Reading Lost | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SCR10-002 | GA Authority To Enact Addl Ed Funding | The constitutional amendment that would exempt taxes for education programs from the provisions of the Taxpayers'' Bill of Rights. | 05/07/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SCR10-003 | Ballot Initiatives To Amend Constitution | This constitutional amendment would change petition signature requirements for some types of initiatives. | 05/12/2010 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SCR10-004 | Games With Element Of Chance | The amendment would allow expansion of keno-type video gambling games statewide, with part of the proceeds devoted to college scholarships. | 05/10/2010 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | No fiscal impact for this bill |
| SJR10-002 | Request For Comprehensive Tax Study | Commissions the University of Denver to conduct a comprehensive study of state and local tax systems. | 01/27/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House | Fiscal note currently unavailable |
| SJR10-047 | Continuity Preschool To Kindergarten | This purely advisory resolution highlights the importance of quality preschool and kindergarten programs and calls on Congress to devote more funding to those efforts. | 05/24/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House | Fiscal note currently unavailable |