republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-084.md

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Bill	Full-time Employment For Higher Education Faculty	To determine if a faculty or teacher at a state or nonprofit institution of higher education (institution) is a full-time employee under the federal public loan forgiveness program (program), the act requires the faculty's or teacher's credit or contact hours to be multiplied by at least 4.35 to determine the number of hours worked. The act directs institutions to either directly certify employment for the program or annually provide employees with partially completed forms to certify their employment. The act allows an institution to apply this calculation going back to October 1, 2007.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-084	Colorado SB 23-084 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Janice Marchman Julie Gonzales Mary Young	10	13	4	2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ebf7bc25-b93e-43ca-8f2e-ff95aa933b70	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-084	dbced074ab54dc9e63a20ea4432730283696706cdf29011727b0a86a409ac8da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-084 (2023A) — Full-time Employment For Higher Education Faculty

To determine if a faculty or teacher at a state or nonprofit institution of higher education (institution) is a full-time employee under the federal public loan forgiveness program (program), the act requires the faculty's or teacher's credit or contact hours to be multiplied by at least 4.35 to determine the number of hours worked. The act directs institutions to either directly certify employment for the program or annually provide employees with partially completed forms to certify their employment. The act allows an institution to apply this calculation going back to October 1, 2007.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/08/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/23/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 44–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Janice Marchman — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-13T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebf7bc25-b93e-43ca-8f2e-ff95aa933b70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).