---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Funding For Full-day Kindergarten"
description: "Full-day kindergarten - funding - appropriation. Before passage of the act, the school finance formula provided funding for half-day kindergarten educational programs plus a small additional amount of supplemental kindergarten funding. The act provides funding through the school finance formula for full-day kindergarten educational programs. A student enrolled in a full-day kindergarten educational program will be funded at the same amount as students enrolled full-time in other grades. A student enrolled in a half-day kindergarten educational program will be funded as a half-day student plus the existing amount of supplemental kindergarten funding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1262"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1262 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "James Wilson", "Jeff Bridges", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ff22f3b-e378-41c4-b1a6-d29edbed22d5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1262"
source_hash: "c497db915561822a8a4bfb30d5a347705027f8355ff001867e4e582de6350856"
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 19-1262 (2019A) — State Funding For Full-day Kindergarten

Full-day kindergarten - funding - appropriation. Before passage of the act, the school finance formula provided funding for half-day kindergarten educational programs plus a small additional amount of supplemental kindergarten funding. The act provides funding through the school finance formula for full-day kindergarten educational programs. A student enrolled in a full-day kindergarten educational program will be funded at the same amount as students enrolled full-time in other grades. A student enrolled in a half-day kindergarten educational program will be funded as a half-day student plus the existing amount of supplemental kindergarten funding.

## 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_hb1262_s_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262sapp_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1262_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1262_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **53–11** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **55–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-21T06:00:00+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 President of the Senate
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ff22f3b-e378-41c4-b1a6-d29edbed22d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).