republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-009.md

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Bill	Financial Incentives For Rural Educators	Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-009	Colorado SB 19-009 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan James Wilson Nancy Todd	8	14	2	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-009	0010385cc1274b8c2a1e482288af6c4af875151b0b4071a2b41649cbeb08893d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-009 (2019A) — Financial Incentives For Rural Educators

Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/06/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 31–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 64–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 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
• 2019-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-02-01T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations introduction
• 2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/385bf209-57a1-40aa-a00a-4feb8a1f8b65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).