republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1067.md

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Bill	College Admission Use Of National Test Score	Under current law, the admission standards for first-time admitted freshmen students must use high school academic performance indicators and national assessment test scores. The act removes the requirement for a national assessment test score. The act states that the governing board of a state institution of higher education (institution) may, but is not required to, require a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion for admission.An applicant may submit a national assessment test score to an institution that does not require a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion and request that the institution consider the national assessment test score.Starting June 30, 2023, the department of higher education (department) shall publish and submit to the education committees an annual report of various data intended to determine whether requiring or not requiring a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion for the admissions process provides greater diversity among institutions without causing negative student outcomes that are directly attributable to the change in the admissions process.On or before June 30, 2027, and on or before June 30, 2032, the commission on higher education shall publish and submit to the education committees a report analyzing the annual reports submitted by the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1067	Colorado HB 21-1067 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Cathy Kipp Janet Buckner Tammy Story Tony Exum	10	15	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f479c037-597b-4dad-8aa3-d0e1e249f243	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1067	d6805cd700b5f8dbb312aa95fd3fab85116edfc1a873e8773cf91a79d8a2064b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1067 (2021A) — College Admission Use Of National Test Score

Under current law, the admission standards for first-time admitted freshmen students must use high school academic performance indicators and national assessment test scores. The act removes the requirement for a national assessment test score. The act states that the governing board of a state institution of higher education (institution) may, but is not required to, require a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion for admission.An applicant may submit a national assessment test score to an institution that does not require a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion and request that the institution consider the national assessment test score.Starting June 30, 2023, the department of higher education (department) shall publish and submit to the education committees an annual report of various data intended to determine whether requiring or not requiring a national assessment test score as an eligibility criterion for the admissions process provides greater diversity among institutions without causing negative student outcomes that are directly attributable to the change in the admissions process.On or before June 30, 2027, and on or before June 30, 2032, the commission on higher education shall publish and submit to the education committees a report analyzing the annual reports submitted by the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 45–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 40–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Tammy Story — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f479c037-597b-4dad-8aa3-d0e1e249f243. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).