republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1306.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	Accreditation Of Postsecondary Institutions	Current law requires a private college or university operating in the state to be institutionally accredited on the basis of an on-site review by a regional or national accrediting body recognized by the United States department of education (DOE). The act allows private colleges and universities and private occupational schools to be accredited by:Institutional or programmatic accrediting bodies recognized by the DOE; or	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1306	Colorado HB 21-1306 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Alec Garnett Paul Lundeen Robert Rodriguez Tim Geitner	9	15	2	2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b4d05f16-247b-4e5a-aa11-bd9a1f583fbc	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1306	84e1cc492696a2f472183f54cb44e3903c5143460be9314f07a9df53aa201b80	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1306 (2021A) — Accreditation Of Postsecondary Institutions

Current law requires a private college or university operating in the state to be institutionally accredited on the basis of an on-site review by a regional or national accrediting body recognized by the United States department of education (DOE). The act allows private colleges and universities and private occupational schools to be accredited by:Institutional or programmatic accrediting bodies recognized by the DOE; or

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (05/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 57–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alec Garnett — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Tim Geitner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4d05f16-247b-4e5a-aa11-bd9a1f583fbc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).