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Bill	Direct Transfer High Cost Support Mechanism To Broadband Grant Recipients	The bill updates language regarding the use of money from the high cost support mechanism (HCSM) for broadband deployment grant applications approved by the broadband deployment board to have money transferred directly from the HCSM to approved broadband deployment grant applicants. The public utilities commission is directed to determine the amount of HCSM money available for broadband deployment and related administrative costs, and the bill requires that amount to be held in a separate account.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	SB 17-306	Colorado SB 17-306 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Kent Lambert Millie Hamner	8	14	2	2017-05-04T06:00:00+00:00	2017-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b45c915f-05ad-4d17-8230-5f227350784a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-306	e03f12a0d7206bbbdf58473d044dc8a2db5c9c59a18853410e72aafbd9c1c77a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 17-306 (2017A) — Direct Transfer High Cost Support Mechanism To Broadband Grant Recipients

The bill updates language regarding the use of money from the high cost support mechanism (HCSM) for broadband deployment grant applications approved by the broadband deployment board to have money transferred directly from the HCSM to approved broadband deployment grant applicants. The public utilities commission is directed to determine the amount of HCSM money available for broadband deployment and related administrative costs, and the bill requires that amount to be held in a separate account.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/08/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/09/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/08/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer Senate Bill 17-306 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer Senate Bill 17-306 to the Committee of the Whole and consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 7-0. — 7–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Kent Lambert — primary (person)
• Millie Hamner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Recede
• 2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2017-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2017-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2017-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b45c915f-05ad-4d17-8230-5f227350784a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).