republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-011.md

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Bill	Students Excused From Taking State Assessments	Under current law, each school district, board of cooperative services that operates a school, and charter school (local education provider) must adopt a written policy and procedure by which a parent may excuse his or her student from participating in the state assessments. The bill clarifies that the local education provider determines whether notice from the parent must be in writing.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-011	Colorado SB 18-011 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Andy Kerr Chris Holbert Paul Lundeen Tracy Kraft-Tharp	8	16	2	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ba6e4da7-f923-4e98-8573-e0c5f93819bb	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-011	6318216ca3a218011ec65b2a6a1b3eaa98350449092591c2d43a3091844f7153	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-011 (2018A) — Students Excused From Taking State Assessments

Under current law, each school district, board of cooperative services that operates a school, and charter school (local education provider) must adopt a written policy and procedure by which a parent may excuse his or her student from participating in the state assessments. The bill clarifies that the local education provider determines whether notice from the parent must be in writing.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/13/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 54–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andy Kerr — primary (person)
• Chris Holbert — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
• Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba6e4da7-f923-4e98-8573-e0c5f93819bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).