republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1271.md

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Bill	Standards For Innovation District Waivers	Under existing law, when a school district submits an innovation plan for a school or multiple schools of the school district, the state board of education (state board) must approve the plan and designate the school district as a district of innovation unless the plan is likely to decrease academic achievement or is not fiscally feasible. Once the plan is approved, the state board must grant any statutory waivers requested in the plan.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1271	Colorado HB 17-1271 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Kevin Priola	10	19	3	2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00	2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8f2d8ff4-e28b-4199-b518-a5f4aed9ec41	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1271	4b5a129372caf816a773551a25e24c3a6ca81dc59b2b13be4ff1edd2e1c6a1c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1271 (2017A) — Standards For Innovation District Waivers

Under existing law, when a school district submits an innovation plan for a school or multiple schools of the school district, the state board of education (state board) must approve the plan and designate the school district as a district of innovation unless the plan is likely to decrease academic achievement or is not fiscally feasible. Once the plan is approved, the state board must grant any statutory waivers requested in the plan.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.003 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/11/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/18/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (03/16/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (04/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/12/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/01/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/28/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment A). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1271 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 10-3. — 10–3 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1271, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 6-1. — 6–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2017-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2017-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/10/2017 - No Amendments
• 2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f2d8ff4-e28b-4199-b518-a5f4aed9ec41. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).