republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1437.md

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Bill	Costs Of College-level Courses In Corrections Educational Program	Under current law, the correctional education program in the department of corrections is required to provide every person in a correctional facility who demonstrates college-level aptitudes with the opportunity to participate in college-level academic programs that may be offered within the correctional facility. However, unless financial assistance for costs of the programs is provided through certain programs or through private or federally funded grants or scholarships, costs associated with such college-level academic programs must be borne entirely by the person participating in the program. The bill removes this stipulation concerning costs and states instead that such costs may be borne through private, local, or federally funded gifts, grants, donations, or scholarships, or by such persons themselves, or through any combination of such funding.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1437	Colorado HB 18-1437 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Leslie Herod Tim Neville	8	12	2	2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00	2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f8938f32-52cd-4ef6-9317-efcb875a1835	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1437	1397274c6daca39906095da1b52fef43411090446a9f9229bc3fc3357f2a6a94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1437 (2018A) — Costs Of College-level Courses In Corrections Educational Program

Under current law, the correctional education program in the department of corrections is required to provide every person in a correctional facility who demonstrates college-level aptitudes with the opportunity to participate in college-level academic programs that may be offered within the correctional facility. However, unless financial assistance for costs of the programs is provided through certain programs or through private or federally funded grants or scholarships, costs associated with such college-level academic programs must be borne entirely by the person participating in the program. The bill removes this stipulation concerning costs and states instead that such costs may be borne through private, local, or federally funded gifts, grants, donations, or scholarships, or by such persons themselves, or through any combination of such funding.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (05/03/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/07/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 65–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Tim Neville — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2018-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2018-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8938f32-52cd-4ef6-9317-efcb875a1835. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).