republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1229.md

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Bill	Peace Officers Standards and Training Board Scholarship Rural And Small Law Enforcement	The act authorizes the peace officers standards and training (P.O.S.T.) board to establish a scholarship program for law enforcement agencies in rural and smaller jurisdictions with limited resources due to their size or location to assist the agencies with the payment of tuition costs for peace officer candidates to attend an approved basic law enforcement training academy. A peace officer who received a scholarship for a training academy tuition must be employed for at least three years by a law enforcement agency in a rural and small jurisdiction after attending the approved basic law enforcement training academy or the peace officer shall reimburse the cost of attending the basic law enforcement training academy to the P.O.S.T. board.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1229	Colorado HB 20-1229 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Bri Buentello Jeff Bridges John Cooke	9	15	6	2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00	2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1e7d5194-a4f8-43fa-8c6c-a8e45f823589	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1229	bd8b61328981cbcff8c8eff82c57ab841233ee7d2be5ed9e4154e6c56daf2c41	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1229 (2020A) — Peace Officers Standards and Training Board Scholarship Rural And Small Law Enforcement

The act authorizes the peace officers standards and training (P.O.S.T.) board to establish a scholarship program for law enforcement agencies in rural and smaller jurisdictions with limited resources due to their size or location to assist the agencies with the payment of tuition costs for peace officer candidates to attend an approved basic law enforcement training academy. A peace officer who received a scholarship for a training academy tuition must be employed for at least three years by a law enforcement agency in a rural and small jurisdiction after attending the approved basic law enforcement training academy or the peace officer shall reimburse the cost of attending the basic law enforcement training academy to the P.O.S.T. board.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/21/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/16/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/31/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/27/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• NOTCNCR — 59–0 (pass) · lower
• RECEDE — 41–21 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 42–20 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 39–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 62–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bri Buentello — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Reject, Discharge and Appoint
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e7d5194-a4f8-43fa-8c6c-a8e45f823589. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).