---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Incentives For Rural Educators"
description: "Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-009"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-009 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "James Wilson", "Nancy Todd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-009"
source_hash: "0010385cc1274b8c2a1e482288af6c4af875151b0b4071a2b41649cbeb08893d"
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 SB 19-009 (2019A) — Financial Incentives For Rural Educators

Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000.

## 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_sb009_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (01/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/05/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_009_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_009_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **31–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **64–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- James Wilson — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).