republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-190.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Teacher Preparation Program Support	Teacher preparation - best practices - teacher mentor grant program - license endorsement - teacher preparation program requirements - appropriation. The act directs the department of higher education and the department of education (departments) to work with the deans of the schools of education to review, research, and identify best practices in teacher preparation. By January 1, 2020, the departments must jointly adopt guidelines to assist educator preparation programs in adopting and implementing the best practices. The departments must also jointly prepare a report concerning the best practices, the guidelines, and regulatory and statutory recommendations to ensure that the policies and criteria for approving educator preparation programs align with the best practices. The departments must submit the report to the Colorado commission on higher education, the state board of education, and the education committees of the general assembly. By March 1, 2020, the educator preparation programs must each submit a report to the departments demonstrating how the program will implement the best practices over the following 3 years.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	SB 19-190	Colorado SB 19-190 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Bob Rankin James Wilson Nancy Todd	12	17	4	2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/36df3266-f625-42d4-b48b-29f4d2004e84	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-190	1a87e920f8ae095e8769da6614286cb31874de5025d7407d074664891bb06701	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 19-190 (2019A) — Teacher Preparation Program Support

Teacher preparation - best practices - teacher mentor grant program - license endorsement - teacher preparation program requirements - appropriation. The act directs the department of higher education and the department of education (departments) to work with the deans of the schools of education to review, research, and identify best practices in teacher preparation. By January 1, 2020, the departments must jointly adopt guidelines to assist educator preparation programs in adopting and implementing the best practices. The departments must also jointly prepare a report concerning the best practices, the guidelines, and regulatory and statutory recommendations to ensure that the policies and criteria for approving educator preparation programs align with the best practices. The departments must submit the report to the Colorado commission on higher education, the state board of education, and the education committees of the general assembly. By March 1, 2020, the educator preparation programs must each submit a report to the departments demonstrating how the program will implement the best practices over the following 3 years.

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 (05/07/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/08/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/05/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA4 (04/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (04/17/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/10/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 49–16 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 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 Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36df3266-f625-42d4-b48b-29f4d2004e84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).