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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BEST Building Excellent Schools Today Financial Assistance Grant Application Requirements"
+description: "Capital Development Committee. Beginning with the state fiscal year 2019-20 grant cycle, the bill requires an application made to the public school capital construction assistance board under the 'Building Excellent Schools Today Act' for a grant of financial assistance that is for either the construction of a new public school facility that will replace one or more existing public school facilities or the reconstruction or expansion of an existing public school facility to include a plan for the future use or disposition of any existing public school facility that the applicant will stop using for its current use if it receives the grant.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2018A"
+identifier: "HB 18-1277"
+citation: "Colorado HB 18-1277 (2018A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "John Kefalas", "Jon Becker", "Randy Baumgardner"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02054ed4-8437-4b70-b98c-be9891357c5e"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1277"
+source_hash: "d24753ecf2ce013e75dfc12e3fc27448dcb906bd3c79d1dfcfdb4a3f60487f70"
+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 18-1277 (2018A) — BEST Building Excellent Schools Today Financial Assistance Grant Application Requirements
+
+Capital Development Committee. Beginning with the state fiscal year 2019-20 grant cycle, the bill requires an application made to the public school capital construction assistance board under the 'Building Excellent Schools Today Act' for a grant of financial assistance that is for either the construction of a new public school facility that will replace one or more existing public school facilities or the reconstruction or expansion of an existing public school facility to include a plan for the future use or disposition of any existing public school facility that the applicant will stop using for its current use if it receives the grant.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
+
+## 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_hb1277_s_ed_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (04/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (03/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_01.pdf)
+5. **Reengrossed (04/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_ren.pdf)
+6. **Rerevised (04/24/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_rer.pdf)
+7. **Revised (04/23/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_rev.pdf)
+8. **Signed Act (05/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
+- John Kefalas — primary (person)
+- Jon Becker — primary (person)
+- Randy Baumgardner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
+- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2018 - No Amendments
+- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-07T07:00:00+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/02054ed4-8437-4b70-b98c-be9891357c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+