---
type: "Bill"
title: "Automatic Enrollment In Advanced Course Grant Program"
description: "Advanced courses - automatic enrollment grant program - appropriation. The John W. Buckner automatic enrollment in advanced courses grant program (grant program)is established in the department of education (department) to provide funding for local education providers that automatically enroll certain students in advanced courses. The department must annually notify local education providers of the grant program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-059"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-059 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Janet Buckner"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b77398ae-e868-41da-945a-b3639119395a"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-059"
source_hash: "302805c51c007aa56efe538c161e536ba2fcaba59417cb657f7750238bb3c73f"
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 19-059 (2019A) — Automatic Enrollment In Advanced Course Grant Program

Advanced courses - automatic enrollment grant program - appropriation. The John W. Buckner automatic enrollment in advanced courses grant program (grant program)is established in the department of education (department) to provide funding for local education providers that automatically enroll certain students in advanced courses. The department must annually notify local education providers of the grant program.

## 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_sb059_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059sedu_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059seduapp.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_059_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_059_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **64–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10T07:00:00+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/b77398ae-e868-41da-945a-b3639119395a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).