---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special Education Funding"
description: "Current law requires the department of education to distribute to each administrative unit $1,250 for each child with a disability who receives special education services from the administrative unit. The act increases the amount to $1,750 and requires the amount to increase by the rate of inflation each budget year beginning with the 2024-25 budget year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-127"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-127 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Colin Larson", "Julie McCluskie", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-26T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4bf1df8-542e-4cc3-9e2b-3bae5ffa547e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-127"
source_hash: "33d67dea817d49b18f46544a3abbba7e04c38f2c729d79e3932f0b62969ea396"
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 22-127 (2022A) — Special Education Funding

Current law requires the department of education to distribute to each administrative unit $1,250 for each child with a disability who receives special education services from the administrative unit. The act increases the amount to $1,750 and requires the amount to increase by the rate of inflation each budget year beginning with the 2024-25 budget year.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_sb127_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_127_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_127_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **58–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Colin Larson — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08T07:00:00+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/b4bf1df8-542e-4cc3-9e2b-3bae5ffa547e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).