---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student Weight-Based Bullying Prevention"
description: "Current law identifies bullying behaviors that are subject to school district and charter school discipline policies and reporting requirements. The act adds a pattern of bullying based on a student's weight, height, or body size to the prohibited bullying behaviors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1285"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1285 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Eliza Hamrick", "Janice Marchman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3069cd8c-8662-4dc2-a42b-2fb2ae44193d"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1285"
source_hash: "7a997ed210e0261e7d442adab3bfbd25103506cd9fc7a19941aad99e8b76bb98"
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 24-1285 (2024A) — Student Weight-Based Bullying Prevention

Current law identifies bullying behaviors that are subject to school district and charter school discipline policies and reporting requirements. The act adds a pattern of bullying based on a student's weight, height, or body size to the prohibited bullying behaviors.

## 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_hb1285_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1285_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1285_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **29–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **46–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
- Janice Marchman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+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/3069cd8c-8662-4dc2-a42b-2fb2ae44193d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).