republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1280.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child College Savings Accounts"
description: "The bill creates the college kickstarter account program (kickstarter program) to provide initial funding (kickstarter funding) for a collegeinvest (authority) college savings account (account) for each child born or adopted in Colorado on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2040, (eligible child), encourage the parent or parents of each eligible child to claim the kickstarter funding by establishing an account, and, if sufficient funding from gifts, grants, and donations is received, provide a free financial literacy education program for eligible children and their parent or parents and other family members. The authority is required to implement and administer the kickstarter program; except that the state treasurer is required to develop and administer the program component of free financial literacy education. The authority may adopt rules that it deems necessary for the implementation and administration of the kickstarter program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1280"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1280 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["KC Becker", "Leslie Herod", "Stephen Fenberg"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87caca92-48af-4fd7-8925-1fd806a470f9"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1280"
source_hash: "34a7d429faaa64511eaf62df59162d9a4b3b8e90484ca2c8422d0cb712715337"
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 19-1280 (2019A) — Child College Savings Accounts

The bill creates the college kickstarter account program (kickstarter program) to provide initial funding (kickstarter funding) for a collegeinvest (authority) college savings account (account) for each child born or adopted in Colorado on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2040, (eligible child), encourage the parent or parents of each eligible child to claim the kickstarter funding by establishing an account, and, if sufficient funding from gifts, grants, and donations is received, provide a free financial literacy education program for eligible children and their parent or parents and other family members. The authority is required to implement and administer the kickstarter program; except that the state treasurer is required to develop and administer the program component of free financial literacy education. The authority may adopt rules that it deems necessary for the implementation and administration of the kickstarter 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_hb1280_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/09/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280app.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/17/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1280_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1280_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **42–20** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- KC Becker — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2019-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87caca92-48af-4fd7-8925-1fd806a470f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).