republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-154.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	Access to Educator Pathways	The act allows a currently licensed Colorado teacher seeking to add an early childhood education endorsement, early childhood special education endorsement, elementary education endorsement, or special education generalist endorsement to demonstrate professional competencies by submitting evidence of achieving sufficiently high education coursework grades on coursework aligned with relevant standards as approved by the department of education.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-154	Colorado SB 25-154 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Eliza Hamrick Matt Soper	9	13	2	2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b4a13bc8-1844-4297-8de4-93381edc710f	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-154	c46da4f5828480309dbafb0231fabad05751336f0e3078e15c6d9ede115250c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-154 (2025A) — Access to Educator Pathways

The act allows a currently licensed Colorado teacher seeking to add an early childhood education endorsement, early childhood special education endorsement, elementary education endorsement, or special education generalist endorsement to demonstrate professional competencies by submitting evidence of achieving sufficiently high education coursework grades on coursework aligned with relevant standards as approved by the department of education.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/06/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/11/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/17/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/16/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/09/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 45–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4a13bc8-1844-4297-8de4-93381edc710f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).