republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1201.md

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Bill	Board Of Education Executive Session Negotiations Strategy	Open meetings law - executive session - developing strategy for negotiations relating to collective bargaining or employment contracts. Under the Colorado open meetings law, a board of education of a school district (board) may hold an executive session for the purpose of determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations, developing strategy for negotiations, and instructing negotiators. The act clarifies that these matters authorizing the board to meet in executive session include development by the board of its strategy for negotiations relating to collective bargaining or employment contracts.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1201	Colorado HB 19-1201 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Don Coram James Wilson Tammy Story	8	13	2	2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00	2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/235ba6f7-9916-4630-99d6-0b9e0b8abf38	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1201	bf96e9d44375ec8449bf325f4cab3adba347234be2c2070682938b4c6b3e5ca6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1201 (2019A) — Board Of Education Executive Session Negotiations Strategy

Open meetings law - executive session - developing strategy for negotiations relating to collective bargaining or employment contracts. Under the Colorado open meetings law, a board of education of a school district (board) may hold an executive session for the purpose of determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations, developing strategy for negotiations, and instructing negotiators. The act clarifies that these matters authorizing the board to meet in executive session include development by the board of its strategy for negotiations relating to collective bargaining or employment contracts.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/06/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/20/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• James Wilson — primary (person)
• Tammy Story — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2019-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-02-26T07:00:00+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/235ba6f7-9916-4630-99d6-0b9e0b8abf38. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).