---
type: "Bill"
title: "Additional PERA Service Retirees for Schools"
description: "With limited exceptions, current law limits the number of service retirees that a state college or university or an employer in the school or Denver public schools division of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) can hire without a reduction in the service retirees' benefits to 10 service retirees when an employer determines there is a critical shortage of qualified candidates. The act allows an employer to hire such service retirees when the employer determines there is a need."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1044"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1044 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Hansen", "Eliza Hamrick", "Rick Taggart"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8073571d-deed-4155-8cdf-9049ff6131eb"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1044"
source_hash: "be7b4f14a9d9e729eadfc01c6e4fc9158a11bc73432842c0639f1dd7f316dd85"
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 24-1044 (2024A) — Additional PERA Service Retirees for Schools

With limited exceptions, current law limits the number of service retirees that a state college or university or an employer in the school or Denver public schools division of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) can hire without a reduction in the service retirees' benefits to 10 service retirees when an employer determines there is a critical shortage of qualified candidates. The act allows an employer to hire such service retirees when the employer determines there is a need.

## 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/2024a_hb1044_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/09/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_s_fin_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1044_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1044_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **58–5** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **51–11** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **50–9** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **24–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2024-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8073571d-deed-4155-8cdf-9049ff6131eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).