---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhance Student Support Colorado School of Mines Fee-for-service Funds"
description: "Currently, the Colorado school of mines (institution) must use its state fee-for-service contract money to provide merit- and need-based scholarships and graduate support funding to reduce tuition for in-state students. In addition to tuition supports, the bill allows the institution to use state fee-for-service contract money to fund services and programs described in the bill, including but not limited to counseling, academic support, student recruiting, and precollegiate programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1140"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1140 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Tim Neville"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e34dafd3-eed2-456b-8f25-0d320e686650"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1140"
source_hash: "67e336ee16f67eed4e0fa55ae92b62562981b7ae7b1198c96767ed6555099a96"
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 17-1140 (2017A) — Enhance Student Support Colorado School of Mines Fee-for-service Funds

Currently, the Colorado school of mines (institution) must use its state fee-for-service contract money to provide merit- and need-based scholarships and graduate support funding to reduce tuition for in-state students. In addition to tuition supports, the bill allows the institution to use state fee-for-service contract money to fund services and programs described in the bill, including but not limited to counseling, academic support, student recruiting, and precollegiate programs.

## 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/2017a/bills/cr/2017a_hb1140_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/21/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/14/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/01/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/22/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/08/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/07/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/16/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1140_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 17-1140 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1140 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 7-0. — **7–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Tim Neville — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-01T07:00:00+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/e34dafd3-eed2-456b-8f25-0d320e686650`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).