republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/sb-19-216.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "High School Innovative Learning Pilot"
description: "High school innovative learning pilot program - appropriation. The act creates the high school innovative learning pilot program (pilot program) to support school districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools (local education providers) in providing innovative learning opportunities to students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 (high school students). Each local education provider that is selected to participate in the pilot program is allowed, for purposes of school finance, to count high school students who participate in innovative learning opportunities as full-time pupils regardless of whether they meet the required number of teacher-pupil instruction and contact hours for full-time enrollment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "SB 19-216"
citation: "Colorado SB 19-216 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Bridges", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/071bc47b-9d73-4cb8-ad2a-2ffe4f807263"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb19-216"
source_hash: "ab3492d562767e0051bb71db8b8310d02ad5d740f449f71013a23cad38b40c7b"
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 SB 19-216 (2019A) — High School Innovative Learning Pilot

High school innovative learning pilot program - appropriation. The act creates the high school innovative learning pilot program (pilot program) to support school districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools (local education providers) in providing innovative learning opportunities to students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 (high school students). Each local education provider that is selected to participate in the pilot program is allowed, for purposes of school finance, to count high school students who participate in innovative learning opportunities as full-time pupils regardless of whether they meet the required number of teacher-pupil instruction and contact hours for full-time enrollment.

## 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_sb216_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/18/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/07/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/12/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216sedu_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/16/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216seduapp.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/29/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_216_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/10/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_216_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **51–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-10T06:00:00+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 Speaker of the House
- **2019-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/071bc47b-9d73-4cb8-ad2a-2ffe4f807263`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).