republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2026a/sb-34.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	Auraria Board Student & Faculty Participation	Under current law, the members of the Auraria board of directors (board) who are the representatives of the student advisory committee and faculty advisory committee are nonvoting members. The act makes the student board member and the faculty board member voting members of the board. Concerning the student board member, the act repeals the requirement that the student be a full-time student and reduces the Colorado residency requirement from 3 years prior to the member's election to one year prior to the member's election. The faculty advisory committee is expanded from 6 to 9 members. One of the additional members is elected from each constituent institution of the Auraria higher education center. The act states that board members are fiduciaries of the Auraria higher education center and requires board members to recuse themselves from a vote or executive session of the board when they have a conflict of interest.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2026A	SB 34	Colorado SB 34 (2026A)	bill	Higher Education	enacted	C. Kolker E. Hamrick J. Bacon J. Marchman	7	14	5	2026-01-26	2026-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/17dede34-8db0-4f5a-95a0-a164e540a2c1	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-034	e2f1ba262eac8bd57abedd72ae254406fc20b60279ba1f9ae6110f7b101b46c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 34 (2026A) — Auraria Board Student & Faculty Participation

Under current law, the members of the Auraria board of directors (board) who are the representatives of the student advisory committee and faculty advisory committee are nonvoting members. The act makes the student board member and the faculty board member voting members of the board. Concerning the student board member, the act repeals the requirement that the student be a full-time student and reduces the Colorado residency requirement from 3 years prior to the member's election to one year prior to the member's election. The faculty advisory committee is expanded from 6 to 9 members. One of the additional members is elected from each constituent institution of the Auraria higher education center. The act states that board members are fiduciaries of the Auraria higher education center and requires board members to recuse themselves from a vote or executive session of the board when they have a conflict of interest.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (committee substitute) — source
4. Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Rerevised (committee substitute) — source
6. Revised (committee substitute) — source
7. Signed Act (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer Senate Bill 26-034, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · upper
• Adopt amendment L.006 — pass (pass) · upper
• Adopt amendment L.001 — pass (pass) · upper
• BILL — pass (pass) · lower
• Refer Senate Bill 26-034 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C. Kolker — primary (person)
• E. Hamrick — primary (person)
• J. Bacon — primary (person)
• J. Marchman — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• L. Goldstein — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-03-27 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2026-03-10 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2026-03-18 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-03-18 Signed by the Speaker of the House passage
• 2026-03-17 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2026-03-11 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-10 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2026-03-05 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2026-02-18 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2026-02-17 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-13 Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 02/17/2026 - No Amendments
• 2026-02-12 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2026-02-09 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2026-01-26 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17dede34-8db0-4f5a-95a0-a164e540a2c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).