republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-085.md

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Bill	Financial Incentives For Education In Rural Areas	Current law allows the department of higher education to provide up to 20 financial stipends annually, not to exceed $6,000 each, to teachers in rural schools or school districts (rural schools) who are seeking certification as a national board certified teacher, seeking certification as a concurrent enrollment teacher, or furthering their professional development plan through continuing education, and who commit to employment in a rural school for a minimum of 3 years. The bill increases the number of available stipends to 60 and expands it to include teachers completing an approved alternative licensure program leading to initial licensure and full-time employment in a rural school or school district that serves rural schools and individuals completing the required course work leading to certification and employment in a rural school or a rural school district that serves rural schools.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-085	Colorado SB 18-085 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Nancy Todd	12	23	10	2018-01-16T07:00:00+00:00	2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2dd4509e-5a6a-4d9f-9dd5-5348b76a9c08	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-085	767e52097738dfd30ba19cfe4d8d370cc15d74b30016968b31584635dfaf5949	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-085 (2018A) — Financial Incentives For Education In Rural Areas

Current law allows the department of higher education to provide up to 20 financial stipends annually, not to exceed $6,000 each, to teachers in rural schools or school districts (rural schools) who are seeking certification as a national board certified teacher, seeking certification as a concurrent enrollment teacher, or furthering their professional development plan through continuing education, and who commit to employment in a rural school for a minimum of 3 years. The bill increases the number of available stipends to 60 and expands it to include teachers completing an approved alternative licensure program leading to initial licensure and full-time employment in a rural school or school district that serves rural schools and individuals completing the required course work leading to certification and employment in a rural school or a rural school district that serves rural schools.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Conference Committee (05/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (04/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (05/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (01/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (02/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (04/11/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA3 (04/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/17/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/26/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPT — 55–10 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 27–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• NOT CONCUR APPT CC — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 17–18 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR — 31–3 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 25–9 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 50–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Reconsider
• 2018-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over to 04/26/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dd4509e-5a6a-4d9f-9dd5-5348b76a9c08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).