---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness Programs"
description: "The act creates a postsecondary and workforce readiness funding model that includes 3 types of funding: Start-up funding, innovation grant funding, and sustain funding. The state board of education (state board) is authorized to adopt rules concerning these funding sources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "SB 25-315"
citation: "Colorado SB 25-315 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Jeff Bridges", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c47a553d-c8d1-4993-b48a-767b8e225cd1"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-315"
source_hash: "b44e5a26ac1de3742cc82346780b258be451488b9692f654550c7967989baa0d"
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 25-315 (2025A) — Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness Programs

The act creates a postsecondary and workforce readiness funding model that includes 3 types of funding: Start-up funding, innovation grant funding, and sustain funding. The state board of education (state board) is authorized to adopt rules concerning these funding sources.

## 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_sb315_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/29/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_h_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_315_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_315_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **50–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/c47a553d-c8d1-4993-b48a-767b8e225cd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).