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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Financial Incentives For Rural Educators"
+description: "Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2019A"
+identifier: "SB 19-009"
+citation: "Colorado SB 19-009 (2019A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "James Wilson", "Nancy Todd"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-009"
+source_hash: "0010385cc1274b8c2a1e482288af6c4af875151b0b4071a2b41649cbeb08893d"
+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 19-009 (2019A) — Financial Incentives For Rural Educators
+
+Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000.
+
+## 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/2019a_sb009_h_app_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (01/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_01.pdf)
+5. **Reengrossed (01/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_ren.pdf)
+6. **Rerevised (03/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_rer.pdf)
+7. **Revised (03/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_rev.pdf)
+8. **Signed Act (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_009_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **31–0** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **64–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
+- James Wilson — primary (person)
+- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations `introduction`
+- **2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+