republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1300.md

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Bill	Bachelor Nursing Completion Degree Local District College	The bill allows a local district college (college), such as Aims community college, to offer a bachelor of science degree in nursing program as a completion degree in nursing to students who have or are pursuing an associate degree in nursing, provided that the college's board of trustees determines it is appropriate to address the needs of the communities within its service area, as approved by the Colorado commission on higher education based on existing criteria.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1300	Colorado HB 18-1300 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Dave Young John Cooke Perry Buck Vicki Marble	8	16	6	2018-03-19T06:00:00+00:00	2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ea6dd233-2dcc-4f6a-a728-6c81a690ecc9	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1300	3628556e42ace50ac8e7153e1dccdd3da7d0a6f675dce9fa82d3819c8faaaace	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1300 (2018A) — Bachelor Nursing Completion Degree Local District College

The bill allows a local district college (college), such as Aims community college, to offer a bachelor of science degree in nursing program as a completion degree in nursing to students who have or are pursuing an associate degree in nursing, provided that the college's board of trustees determines it is appropriate to address the needs of the communities within its service area, as approved by the Colorado commission on higher education based on existing criteria.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 34–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Young — primary (person)
• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Perry Buck — primary (person)
• Vicki Marble — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2018-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2018-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea6dd233-2dcc-4f6a-a728-6c81a690ecc9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).