---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Funding 2023-24 for New Arrival Students"
description: "For the 2023-24 budget year, the act appropriates $24 million from the state education fund to the department of education (department) to distribute one-time funding to school districts and institute charter schools that enrolled new arrival students after the 2023-24 pupil enrollment count day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1389"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1389 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rick Taggart"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91169afe-ff59-4e7e-b5b1-f3037e62bb47"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1389"
source_hash: "c46a65105737c8a9a3652a01c19e8b4dfda2d139983ec636cf9e5f6dc85a2494"
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 24-1389 (2024A) — School Funding 2023-24 for New Arrival Students

For the 2023-24 budget year, the act appropriates $24 million from the state education fund to the department of education (department) to distribute one-time funding to school districts and institute charter schools that enrolled new arrival students after the 2023-24 pupil enrollment count day.

## 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_hb1389_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1389_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1389_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **18–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **49–15** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **11–22** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91169afe-ff59-4e7e-b5b1-f3037e62bb47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).