---
type: "Bill"
title: "Distribution of State Share of District Total Program"
description: "Under current law, the state distributes its share of a school district's total program funding in 12 approximately equal monthly payments during the budget year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-017"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-017 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Jeff Bridges", "Paul Lundeen", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad4703a5-0578-455e-a0ce-9dcc4236a2c6"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-017"
source_hash: "d86cd54992a76c431c09cf967a221109cd2c4f7357955e3019e46de79a85781b"
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 24-017 (2024A) — Distribution of State Share of District Total Program

Under current law, the state distributes its share of a school district's total program funding in 12 approximately equal monthly payments during the budget 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_sb017_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_017_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_017_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **62–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
- Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **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 - No Amendments
- **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 Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2024-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+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/ad4703a5-0578-455e-a0ce-9dcc4236a2c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).