republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/sb-17-041.md

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Bill	Higher Education Employment Contract Terms	Under current law, institutions of higher education are limited in the number and length of term employment contracts or contract extensions that the institution can award. In addition, institutions are prohibited from providing postemployment compensation or benefits to a government-supported employee after the individual's employment has ended, except in limited situations and in limited amounts. Further, under current law, the terms of government-supported employment contracts are generally available for public inspection.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	SB 17-041	Colorado SB 17-041 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Edie Hooton Kevin Priola Yeulin Willett	10	14	3	2017-01-11T07:00:00+00:00	2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/906363ed-caf1-4db6-b4cd-4e4499f53dda	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-041	b99fe99a2c1c6b43eaa94ab7d37539feefccc439471183a1f1e748f88305d847	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 17-041 (2017A) — Higher Education Employment Contract Terms

Under current law, institutions of higher education are limited in the number and length of term employment contracts or contract extensions that the institution can award. In addition, institutions are prohibited from providing postemployment compensation or benefits to a government-supported employee after the individual's employment has ended, except in limited situations and in limited amounts. Further, under current law, the terms of government-supported employment contracts are generally available for public inspection.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.002 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (02/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (03/15/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (01/11/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (02/03/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/09/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/09/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer Senate Bill 17-041 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0. — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-041, 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 7-0. — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment B). The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Edie Hooton — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Yeulin Willett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2017-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2017-02-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-01-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/906363ed-caf1-4db6-b4cd-4e4499f53dda. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).