---
type: "Bill"
title: "Career Development Success Program Expansion"
description: "The bill amends the existing career development success pilot program (program), which provides a distribution of up to $1,000 to school districts and charter schools for each high school student who successfully completes an identified industry-certificate, internship, or pre-apprenticeship program or computer science advanced placement (AP) course. The bill limits the distribution for industry certificates for a single school district or charter school to 10% of the total number of completed industry certificates reported."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1266"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1266 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "James Wilson", "Nancy Todd", "Owen Hill"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8da39aed-959e-40d8-8c7e-7c35486b0dc0"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1266"
source_hash: "301650bb87db4f016938273a11fd0f23e1a483a6779c672fa309588f3affcf3f"
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 18-1266 (2018A) — Career Development Success Program Expansion

The bill amends the existing career development success pilot program (program), which provides a distribution of up to $1,000 to school districts and charter schools for each high school student who successfully completes an identified industry-certificate, internship, or pre-apprenticeship program or computer science advanced placement (AP) course. The bill limits the distribution for industry certificates for a single school district or charter school to 10% of the total number of completed industry certificates reported.

## 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_hb1266_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/19/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/20/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (05/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (05/01/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1266_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **47–14** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **28–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
- Owen Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2018-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05T07:00:00+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/8da39aed-959e-40d8-8c7e-7c35486b0dc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).