---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Finance"
description: "Financing for K-12 public schools - transfer to the state education fund - rural school funding - tier B special education funding - ninth grade success grant program - health and wellness through comprehensive physical education grant program - appropriation. The act increases the statewide base per pupil funding for the 2019-20 budget year by $182.76 to account for inflation, for a new statewide base per pupil funding of $6,951.53. The act also sets the minimum district total program funding for the 2019-20 budget year. The district total program funding reflects a $100 million reduction in the dollar amount of the budget stabilization factor over the prior budget year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-246"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-246 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "James Wilson", "Nancy Todd", "Paul Lundeen"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14848599-8081-4c08-b0a6-864b022fdf9c"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-246"
source_hash: "7594bbf135471c27fb133ed6b3ba4650d02252d9f5fb0775594a8ebedf274c46"
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 19-246 (2019A) — Public School Finance

Financing for K-12 public schools - transfer to the state education fund - rural school funding - tier B special education funding - ninth grade success grant program - health and wellness through comprehensive physical education grant program - appropriation. The act increases the statewide base per pupil funding for the 2019-20 budget year by $182.76 to account for inflation, for a new statewide base per pupil funding of $6,951.53. The act also sets the minimum district total program funding for the 2019-20 budget year. The district total program funding reflects a $100 million reduction in the dollar amount of the budget stabilization factor over the prior budget year.

## 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_sb246_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246sapp_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_246_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_246_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **16–18** (fail) · lower
- PERM — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+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 Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations `introduction`
- **2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+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`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14848599-8081-4c08-b0a6-864b022fdf9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).