---
type: "Bill"
title: "Academic Adjustments in Higher Education"
description: "The act requires each institution of higher education (institution) in Colorado to create and adopt a policy and a process to support the ability of an admitted or enrolled student with a disability (student) to voluntarily self-disclose the student's disability and to engage in an interactive process with the institution to receive an academic adjustment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-087"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-087 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janice Marchman", "Max Brooks", "Rebekah Stewart"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-28T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06fb3a59-d5ba-4600-9bf2-03650565ddff"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-087"
source_hash: "e0c124333c0b21e144ac576188a59320e18edc83e3080d4c55917f85ab94e09b"
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 25-087 (2025A) — Academic Adjustments in Higher Education

The act requires each institution of higher education (institution) in Colorado to create and adopt a policy and a process to support the ability of an admitted or enrolled student with a disability (student) to voluntarily self-disclose the student's disability and to engage in an interactive process with the institution to receive an academic adjustment.

## 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/2025a_sb087_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/08/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/21/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_h_ed_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/31/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_087_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/18/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_087_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **58–5** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Max Brooks — primary (person)
- Rebekah Stewart — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. García — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
- M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2025-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T07:00:00+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/06fb3a59-d5ba-4600-9bf2-03650565ddff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).