---
type: "Bill"
title: "Online Student Protections"
description: "If a school district, board of cooperative services, or charter school (local education provider) provides educational programming via online instruction to a student (online student), the act prohibits the local education provider from:Prohibiting the online student's parent from being in the same room while the student participates in online instruction, but the person leading the instruction may require a disruptive parent to leave the area of online instruction;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1059"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1059 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary Bradfield", "Paul Lundeen", "Tim Geitner"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6ed1692-b606-4244-a826-51aa819f14b5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1059"
source_hash: "a2340e4527f529f1e745080d6a9de74b850e8e8e7ed740d58a4d88ddac588d51"
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 21-1059 (2021A) — Online Student Protections

If a school district, board of cooperative services, or charter school (local education provider) provides educational programming via online instruction to a student (online student), the act prohibits the local education provider from:Prohibiting the online student's parent from being in the same room while the student participates in online instruction, but the person leading the instruction may require a disruptive parent to leave the area of online instruction;

## 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/2021a_hb1059_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/20/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059sedu_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1059_rv2.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1059_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **60–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **61–1** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
- Tim Geitner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+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/a6ed1692-b606-4244-a826-51aa819f14b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).