republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1236.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce Diploma Pilot Program"
description: "Workforce diploma pilot program - performance payments to qualified providers for student outcomes - appropriation. The act creates the workforce diploma pilot program (program) in the department of education (department) to award completion payments to qualified providers for the attainment of certain outcomes achieved by eligible students enrolled in the courses or programs, including earning high school diplomas, course credits, or industry-recognized training certificates. The department shall administer the program. The program will operate in any year in which the general assembly appropriates money for the program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1236"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1236 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Gray", "Nancy Todd", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df64e5ab-ea26-41d1-adb7-ce7b51c5ee73"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1236"
source_hash: "0dc84377ec39ed802b489d05c64550ec5e0e9567c93d4b9206eba73e8e80e9f2"
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 19-1236 (2019A) — Workforce Diploma Pilot Program

Workforce diploma pilot program - performance payments to qualified providers for student outcomes - appropriation. The act creates the workforce diploma pilot program (program) in the department of education (department) to award completion payments to qualified providers for the attainment of certain outcomes achieved by eligible students enrolled in the courses or programs, including earning high school diplomas, course credits, or industry-recognized training certificates. The department shall administer the program. The program will operate in any year in which the general assembly appropriates money for the program.

## 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_hb1236_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/15/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/11/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236app.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/30/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236sapp_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/03/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/02/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1236_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/01/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1236_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–2** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **37–26** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **42–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matt Gray — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df64e5ab-ea26-41d1-adb7-ce7b51c5ee73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).