republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-247.md

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Bill	Tuition Waiver & Colorado National Guard Members	The act changes the tuition assistance program for eligible members of the Colorado National Guard (member) to a tuition waiver program (program). The act allows a member, upon being accepted for enrollment at a designated institution of higher education (institution), to pursue studies that lead to a postgraduate degree, a bachelor's degree, an associate degree, or a certificate of completion with all tuition waived. For a member, the tuition waiver must not exceed more than 65 credit hours at a designated 2-year institution of higher education and no more than 130 credit hours at a designated 4-year institution of higher education; except that the total credit hours for a member who attends both a 2-year institution and a 4-year institution must not exceed more than 145 credit hours. The department of military and veterans affairs (department) shall administer the program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-247	Colorado SB 25-247 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Jeff Bridges Rick Taggart Shannon Bird	9	12	2	2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e9396d10-f164-4412-bee2-86be3c780261	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-247	50efa92cbbabc338fba2c9f7d6d031f225da8fa914e4932f75d8d18ac0854c06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-247 (2025A) — Tuition Waiver & Colorado National Guard Members

The act changes the tuition assistance program for eligible members of the Colorado National Guard (member) to a tuition waiver program (program). The act allows a member, upon being accepted for enrollment at a designated institution of higher education (institution), to pursue studies that lead to a postgraduate degree, a bachelor's degree, an associate degree, or a certificate of completion with all tuition waived. For a member, the tuition waiver must not exceed more than 65 credit hours at a designated 2-year institution of higher education and no more than 130 credit hours at a designated 4-year institution of higher education; except that the total credit hours for a member who attends both a 2-year institution and a 4-year institution must not exceed more than 145 credit hours. The department of military and veterans affairs (department) shall administer the program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/31/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/10/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/09/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 62–2 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Rick Taggart — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Bradley — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Garcia Sander — cosponsor (person)
• M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• R. Armagost — cosponsor (person)
• R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bottoms — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e9396d10-f164-4412-bee2-86be3c780261. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).