republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-319.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	Modification Higher Education Expenses Income Tax Incentive	The state allows a student pursuing higher education who satisfies statutorily specified eligibility criteria to claim an income tax incentive for amounts paid for tuition and fees for qualifying academic semesters or terms that the student completes. The act clarifies the statute that provides for the income tax incentive to improve the administration, including data tracking and reporting, of the incentive.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-319	Colorado SB 25-319 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Jeff Bridges Judy Amabile Rick Taggart Shannon Bird	8	12	2	2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00	2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0bf08cd6-2f0a-406c-8cba-0e2d011065c1	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-319	bed7a34bce6e60ca8bb04d3ad7934e3b532b340a023829ef3f5c245d72ba3f7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-319 (2025A) — Modification Higher Education Expenses Income Tax Incentive

The state allows a student pursuing higher education who satisfies statutorily specified eligibility criteria to claim an income tax incentive for amounts paid for tuition and fees for qualifying academic semesters or terms that the student completes. The act clarifies the statute that provides for the income tax incentive to improve the administration, including data tracking and reporting, of the incentive.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/04/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 44–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Judy Amabile — primary (person)
• Rick Taggart — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bf08cd6-2f0a-406c-8cba-0e2d011065c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).