republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1002.md

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Bill	Rural School District Teaching Fellowship Programs	The bill directs the department of education to identify geographic areas within the state and specific subjects for which there is a teacher shortage. Under the bill, a rural school district, rural charter school, or rural board of cooperative services (rural local education provider) and a public or private institution of higher education (institution) may enter into an agreement to provide a teaching fellowship program for students enrolled in the fourth year of the approved educator preparation program. The rural local education provider must be located within an identified area or need a teacher for one of the identified subjects and demonstrate chronic hiring difficulty and financial need; the institution must offer an approved educator preparation program. The agreement must include the commitments of both the rural local education provider and the institution, including the commitments of both the rural local education provider and the institution to jointly design an individualized fellowship plan for each teaching fellow that addresses necessary competencies, the rural local education provider's commitment to extend an offer of employment to the teaching fellow when he or she successfully completes the fellowship year, and the institution's commitment to pay a percentage of a stipend to the teaching fellow during the fellowship year.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1002	Colorado HB 18-1002 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Don Coram Millie Hamner Nancy Todd	10	16	2	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/58524cfc-4d29-4b35-bdf7-2f36a45fdb3e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1002	2f60410923f4ff835b4313138fc49eed48c86e423d6005d50613ab4b84e94685	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1002 (2018A) — Rural School District Teaching Fellowship Programs

The bill directs the department of education to identify geographic areas within the state and specific subjects for which there is a teacher shortage. Under the bill, a rural school district, rural charter school, or rural board of cooperative services (rural local education provider) and a public or private institution of higher education (institution) may enter into an agreement to provide a teaching fellowship program for students enrolled in the fourth year of the approved educator preparation program. The rural local education provider must be located within an identified area or need a teacher for one of the identified subjects and demonstrate chronic hiring difficulty and financial need; the institution must offer an approved educator preparation program. The agreement must include the commitments of both the rural local education provider and the institution, including the commitments of both the rural local education provider and the institution to jointly design an individualized fellowship plan for each teaching fellow that addresses necessary competencies, the rural local education provider's commitment to extend an offer of employment to the teaching fellow when he or she successfully completes the fellowship year, and the institution's commitment to pay a percentage of a stipend to the teaching fellow during the fellowship year.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/30/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/25/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 53–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Millie Hamner — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 04/16/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58524cfc-4d29-4b35-bdf7-2f36a45fdb3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).