republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1196.md

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Bill	Financial Aid For Students With In-state Tuition	Financial assistance programs - student eligibility - Colorado high school graduates. A student who does not have lawful immigration status who attended high school in Colorado for at least 3 years before graduating from a Colorado high school or before successfully completing a high school equivalency examination, is admitted to a qualifying institution of higher education within 12 months after high school graduation, and has submitted an affidavit stating that the student has applied for lawful presence or will apply as soon as he or she is eligible, is eligible for existing student financial assistance programs offered by the department of higher education to in-state students. Prior to becoming eligible, the student is subject to the same verification requirements for eligibility to participate in the college opportunity fund program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1196	Colorado HB 19-1196 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dominick Moreno Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	8	13	2	2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/47c59073-2e83-44af-9789-6b9600f07d25	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1196	6c6043d490f86d3f142de72d184c47f5384cd88df369baf9ef77bf6cdbead082	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1196 (2019A) — Financial Aid For Students With In-state Tuition

Financial assistance programs - student eligibility - Colorado high school graduates. A student who does not have lawful immigration status who attended high school in Colorado for at least 3 years before graduating from a Colorado high school or before successfully completing a high school equivalency examination, is admitted to a qualifying institution of higher education within 12 months after high school graduation, and has submitted an affidavit stating that the student has applied for lawful presence or will apply as soon as he or she is eligible, is eligible for existing student financial assistance programs offered by the department of higher education to in-state students. Prior to becoming eligible, the student is subject to the same verification requirements for eligibility to participate in the college opportunity fund program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/22/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 41–24 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47c59073-2e83-44af-9789-6b9600f07d25. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).