---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Employees' Retirement Association Employment after Retirement for Rural Schools"
description: "Current law limits the duration of employment a public employees' retirement association (PERA) service retiree can work for a PERA employer without a reduction in PERA retirement benefits. Under certain circumstances, a rural school district may hire a service retiree who is a teacher, a school bus driver, a school food services cook, a school nurse, or a qualified paraprofessional without the service retiree receiving a deduction in benefits for any length of employment in the calender year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-099"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-099 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Janice Marchman", "Rod Pelton", "Ty Winter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e754efc-9381-4759-9bc3-736831c2d53b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-099"
source_hash: "39a3559bc27aa7d41e88cff54f49edb6cda48110a6ca6c323b66e035d00af7f9"
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 24-099 (2024A) — Public Employees' Retirement Association Employment after Retirement for Rural Schools

Current law limits the duration of employment a public employees' retirement association (PERA) service retiree can work for a PERA employer without a reduction in PERA retirement benefits. Under certain circumstances, a rural school district may hire a service retiree who is a teacher, a school bus driver, a school food services cook, a school nurse, or a qualified paraprofessional without the service retiree receiving a deduction in benefits for any length of employment in the calender 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/2024a_sb099_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/19/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_h_ed_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_099_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_099_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **27–2** (pass) · upper
- RECONSIDERATION — **25–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **54–9** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Rod Pelton — primary (person)
- Ty Winter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **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 with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24T07:00:00+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/7e754efc-9381-4759-9bc3-736831c2d53b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).