---
type: "Bill"
title: "Required State Assessment For Ninth-grade Students"
description: "Under existing law, each local education provider must administer the state assessments in math and English language arts to ninth-grade students and must administer a state-selected assessment to tenth-grade students. The bill repeals the requirement to administer the state assessment to ninth-grade students. Instead, local education providers must administer a state-selected ninth-grade assessment that is aligned with the ninth-grade content standards and the assessment administered to tenth-grade students. The department of education must ensure that, under the testing schedule, ninth-grade students take the state-selected assessment in the spring semester."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2017A"
identifier: "HB 17-1181"
citation: "Colorado HB 17-1181 (2017A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brittany Pettersen", "Kevin Priola", "Nancy Todd", "Paul Lundeen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c680232-26b6-446f-850d-02f62d2291c9"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1181"
source_hash: "fee94a4460b25719355333b3dc3e7f119d8190990575ab86a6aa28da5c3885bf"
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 17-1181 (2017A) — Required State Assessment For Ninth-grade Students

Under existing law, each local education provider must administer the state assessments in math and English language arts to ninth-grade students and must administer a state-selected assessment to tenth-grade students. The bill repeals the requirement to administer the state assessment to ninth-grade students. Instead, local education providers must administer a state-selected ninth-grade assessment that is aligned with the ninth-grade content standards and the assessment administered to tenth-grade students. The department of education must ensure that, under the testing schedule, ninth-grade students take the state-selected assessment in the spring semester.

## 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_HB1181_S_APP_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/07/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/01/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/10/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/03/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/09/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/17/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/13/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/06/2017)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017A/bills/2017a_1181_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- Adopt amendment J.001 The motion passed without objection. — **0–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1181 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1181, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1181 to the Committee of the Whole. Add to consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 7-0. — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Refer House Bill 17-1181 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 6-0, with one member excused. — **6–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2017-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2017-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2017-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+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/1c680232-26b6-446f-850d-02f62d2291c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).