republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1294.md

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Bill	Counting ASCENT Program Students In Graduation Rate	The bill clarifies that a student who participates in the accelerating students through concurrent enrollment program, which allows the student to remain enrolled as a high school student while concurrently enrolling in postsecondary courses during the school year immediately following the student's twelfth-grade year, is counted in the enrolling school district's or institute charter school's graduation rate in the year in which the student completes the high school graduation requirements.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1294	Colorado HB 17-1294 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Mike Weissman Nancy Todd	8	13	2	2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/751787a9-2d77-4989-8827-8c5f3a129e0d	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1294	b0140223889aa933e135ce4c8e271788b00675b3ccefdd2d096700677463fe34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1294 (2017A) — Counting ASCENT Program Students In Graduation Rate

The bill clarifies that a student who participates in the accelerating students through concurrent enrollment program, which allows the student to remain enrolled as a high school student while concurrently enrolling in postsecondary courses during the school year immediately following the student's twelfth-grade year, is counted in the enrolling school district's or institute charter school's graduation rate in the year in which the student completes the high school graduation requirements.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/07/2017) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1294 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 6-0, with one member excused. — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1294 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2017-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2017-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/751787a9-2d77-4989-8827-8c5f3a129e0d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).