republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1280.md

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Bill	Child College Savings Accounts	The bill creates the college kickstarter account program (kickstarter program) to provide initial funding (kickstarter funding) for a collegeinvest (authority) college savings account (account) for each child born or adopted in Colorado on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2040, (eligible child), encourage the parent or parents of each eligible child to claim the kickstarter funding by establishing an account, and, if sufficient funding from gifts, grants, and donations is received, provide a free financial literacy education program for eligible children and their parent or parents and other family members. The authority is required to implement and administer the kickstarter program; except that the state treasurer is required to develop and administer the program component of free financial literacy education. The authority may adopt rules that it deems necessary for the implementation and administration of the kickstarter program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1280	Colorado HB 19-1280 (2019A)	bill		enacted	KC Becker Leslie Herod Stephen Fenberg	10	15	2	2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00	2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/87caca92-48af-4fd7-8925-1fd806a470f9	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1280	34a7d429faaa64511eaf62df59162d9a4b3b8e90484ca2c8422d0cb712715337	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1280 (2019A) — Child College Savings Accounts

The bill creates the college kickstarter account program (kickstarter program) to provide initial funding (kickstarter funding) for a collegeinvest (authority) college savings account (account) for each child born or adopted in Colorado on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2040, (eligible child), encourage the parent or parents of each eligible child to claim the kickstarter funding by establishing an account, and, if sufficient funding from gifts, grants, and donations is received, provide a free financial literacy education program for eligible children and their parent or parents and other family members. The authority is required to implement and administer the kickstarter program; except that the state treasurer is required to develop and administer the program component of free financial literacy education. The authority may adopt rules that it deems necessary for the implementation and administration of the kickstarter program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/09/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–20 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 27–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• KC Becker — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87caca92-48af-4fd7-8925-1fd806a470f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).