republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-143.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	Credential Quality Apprenticeship Classification	Current law requires the department of higher education (department) and higher education institutions to develop a framework for evaluating the quality of nondegree credentials. The act formally recognizes the resulting quality and in-demand nondegree credentials framework (framework) as the primary tool for assessing the quality of nondegree credentials offered in the state.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-143	Colorado SB 24-143 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Eliza Hamrick James Coleman Leslie Herod Rachel Zenzinger	10	15	2	2024-02-07T07:00:00+00:00	2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/08a93665-0e63-4754-a960-ce65ed033f80	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-143	ade066840465b965cdbc4a2d1caf700e926d9c66d037f4a667d45f800e3fbbbd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-143 (2024A) — Credential Quality Apprenticeship Classification

Current law requires the department of higher education (department) and higher education institutions to develop a framework for evaluating the quality of nondegree credentials. The act formally recognizes the resulting quality and in-demand nondegree credentials framework (framework) as the primary tool for assessing the quality of nondegree credentials offered in the state.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/18/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/16/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/10/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 51–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 30–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2024-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08a93665-0e63-4754-a960-ce65ed033f80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).