---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEST Building Excellent Schools Today Financial Assistance Grant Application Requirements"
description: "Capital Development Committee. Beginning with the state fiscal year 2019-20 grant cycle, the bill requires an application made to the public school capital construction assistance board under the 'Building Excellent Schools Today Act' for a grant of financial assistance that is for either the construction of a new public school facility that will replace one or more existing public school facilities or the reconstruction or expansion of an existing public school facility to include a plan for the future use or disposition of any existing public school facility that the applicant will stop using for its current use if it receives the grant.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1277"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1277 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "John Kefalas", "Jon Becker", "Randy Baumgardner"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02054ed4-8437-4b70-b98c-be9891357c5e"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1277"
source_hash: "d24753ecf2ce013e75dfc12e3fc27448dcb906bd3c79d1dfcfdb4a3f60487f70"
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 18-1277 (2018A) — BEST Building Excellent Schools Today Financial Assistance Grant Application Requirements

Capital Development Committee. Beginning with the state fiscal year 2019-20 grant cycle, the bill requires an application made to the public school capital construction assistance board under the 'Building Excellent Schools Today Act' for a grant of financial assistance that is for either the construction of a new public school facility that will replace one or more existing public school facilities or the reconstruction or expansion of an existing public school facility to include a plan for the future use or disposition of any existing public school facility that the applicant will stop using for its current use if it receives the grant.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

## 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_hb1277_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/02/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/04/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/07/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/03/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/24/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/23/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1277_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- John Kefalas — primary (person)
- Jon Becker — primary (person)
- Randy Baumgardner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2018 - No Amendments
- **2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07T07:00:00+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/02054ed4-8437-4b70-b98c-be9891357c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).