---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Finance"
description: "Section 2 of the act increases the statewide base per pupil funding for the 2020-21 budget year by $132.08 to account for inflation of 1.9% for a new statewide base per pupil funding of $7,083.61. In addition, it sets the minimum statewide district total program funding amount for the 2020-21 budget at $7,230,448,891 and removes the requirement for the dollar amount of the budget stabilization factor to remain the same as during the 2019-20 budget year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1418"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1418 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["KC Becker", "Nancy Todd"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/916b52cb-eee1-490d-abb1-1186b48e7829"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1418"
source_hash: "fed8964179553aa501fb61939e2fa315f490f489746477ee54280e10494fd5b5"
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 20-1418 (2020A) — Public School Finance

Section 2 of the act increases the statewide base per pupil funding for the 2020-21 budget year by $132.08 to account for inflation of 1.9% for a new statewide base per pupil funding of $7,083.61. In addition, it sets the minimum statewide district total program funding amount for the 2020-21 budget at $7,230,448,891 and removes the requirement for the dollar amount of the budget stabilization factor to remain the same as during the 2019-20 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/2020a_hb1418_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418sapp_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (06/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1418_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1418_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- COW * — **15–19** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **15–19** (fail) · upper
- COW * — **16–18** (fail) · upper
- BILL — **39–23** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **39–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- KC Becker — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+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/916b52cb-eee1-490d-abb1-1186b48e7829`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).