republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1055.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Cap Construction Financial Assistance"
description: "Public school capital construction - increase in state financial assistance - adjustment to formula for determining total financial assistance for charter schools - financial assistance for full-day kindergarten facilities - appropriations. Law in effect before May 21, 2019, required the greater of the first $40 million of state retail marijuana excise tax revenue or 90% of the revenue to be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund (assistance fund) and limited the maximum total amount of annual lease payments payable by the state under the terms of all outstanding lease-purchase agreements entered into as authorized by the \"Building Excellent Schools Today Act\" (BEST) to $100 million. Beginning July 1, 2019, the act:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1055"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1055 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6160fa4d-6b43-4fd5-b535-1cd944532911"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1055"
source_hash: "ec224aa591c5a747849aae5c4b286d1f31e258b7923d51c13249aa1b14986479"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 19-1055 (2019A) — Public School Cap Construction Financial Assistance

Public school capital construction - increase in state financial assistance - adjustment to formula for determining total financial assistance for charter schools - financial assistance for full-day kindergarten facilities - appropriations. Law in effect before May 21, 2019, required the greater of the first $40 million of state retail marijuana excise tax revenue or 90% of the revenue to be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund (assistance fund) and limited the maximum total amount of annual lease payments payable by the state under the terms of all outstanding lease-purchase agreements entered into as authorized by the "Building Excellent Schools Today Act" (BEST) to $100 million. Beginning July 1, 2019, the act:

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1055_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/08/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/06/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055fin.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055app.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1055_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/21/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1055_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **56–8** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-21T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6160fa4d-6b43-4fd5-b535-1cd944532911`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).