republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1004.md

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Bill	College Credit For Military Education And Training	The bill requires the governing board of each institution of higher education to adopt, make public, and implement a prior learning assessment policy for awarding academic credit for college-level learning acquired while in the military. The policy adopted by the governing board must require each campus to use the American Council on Education's recommendations on the joint services transcript and, at its discretion, assign appropriate credit. Further, the institutions shall provide specific guidance to active duty and veteran military members in selecting a program of study and optimizing prior learning assessment credit. Finally, the institutions shall accept in transfer from other state institutions prior learning assessment credit awarded for courses with guaranteed-transfer designation.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1004	Colorado HB 17-1004 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Jessie Danielson Leroy Garcia Owen Hill	12	19	6	2017-01-11T07:00:00+00:00	2017-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/579925c7-944c-47e0-ab17-187c00c901a7	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1004	b217769836125423fc6da6bac29f67e7d65135ab0aa7d006be9f2d6da862f633	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1004 (2017A) — College Credit For Military Education And Training

The bill requires the governing board of each institution of higher education to adopt, make public, and implement a prior learning assessment policy for awarding academic credit for college-level learning acquired while in the military. The policy adopted by the governing board must require each campus to use the American Council on Education's recommendations on the joint services transcript and, at its discretion, assign appropriate credit. Further, the institutions shall provide specific guidance to active duty and veteran military members in selecting a program of study and optimizing prior learning assessment credit. Finally, the institutions shall accept in transfer from other state institutions prior learning assessment credit awarded for courses with guaranteed-transfer designation.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment L.002 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.004 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (04/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Final Act (05/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Introduced (01/11/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA1 (03/29/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA2 (04/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/26/2017) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/25/2017) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (06/01/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Adopt amendment L.004 (Attachment C). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1004, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 6-0, with one member excused. — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1004, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1004 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt First Report The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment B). The motion passed on a vote of 12-1. — 12–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
• Owen Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2017-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2017-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 05/01/2017
• 2017-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 05/01/2017
• 2017-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2017-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-01-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/579925c7-944c-47e0-ab17-187c00c901a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).