---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cap Schools in Early High School Graduation Pilot"
description: "Current law creates the fourth-year innovation pilot program (pilot program) in the department of higher education (department) to disburse state funding to postsecondary education and training programs on behalf of low-income students who graduate early from a participating high school. The act limits pilot program participation to local education providers, groups of providers, and schools participating in the 2023-24 school year, but it does not cap the number of students who may receive postsecondary education scholarships through the pilot program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1392"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1392 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Jeff Bridges", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/038d5ea1-2b9a-489a-a189-34aa733e0b8c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1392"
source_hash: "b965628e24f0faba4658763282b35b42501d072d36511c2a9bbdadf096c98c1c"
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 24-1392 (2024A) — Cap Schools in Early High School Graduation Pilot

Current law creates the fourth-year innovation pilot program (pilot program) in the department of higher education (department) to disburse state funding to postsecondary education and training programs on behalf of low-income students who graduate early from a participating high school. The act limits pilot program participation to local education providers, groups of providers, and schools participating in the 2023-24 school year, but it does not cap the number of students who may receive postsecondary education scholarships through the pilot program.

## 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_hb1392_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1392_rv2.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1392_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **60–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **61–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **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 with Amendments - Floor
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **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/038d5ea1-2b9a-489a-a189-34aa733e0b8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).