republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1037.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	Department Of Corrections Earned Time For College Program Completion	The act requires the department of corrections (department) to, for an inmate who was sentenced for a nonviolent felony offense, deduct earned time from the inmate's sentence for each accredited degree or other credential awarded by an institution of higher education to the inmate while the inmate is incarcerated or on parole, in the following amounts:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1037	Colorado HB 23-1037 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Matthew Martinez Rose Pugliese	10	14	4	2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00	2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/eff475df-8e79-4d17-a700-196e550fb2a6	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1037	a736f6292f44ebf6b45eafcf3d2dadb9f7c295587c8fc3b6b57bf45212f16fbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1037 (2023A) — Department Of Corrections Earned Time For College Program Completion

The act requires the department of corrections (department) to, for an inmate who was sentenced for a nonviolent felony offense, deduct earned time from the inmate's sentence for each accredited degree or other credential awarded by an institution of higher education to the inmate while the inmate is incarcerated or on parole, in the following amounts:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 28–6 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 59–1 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 57–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
• Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eff475df-8e79-4d17-a700-196e550fb2a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).