republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1261.md

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Bill	No Requirement For Selective Service Higher Education	Current law requires a male person who is applying for enrollment or reenrollment to a state-supported institution of higher education (institution) and who is at least 17 years and 9 months of age but younger than 26 years of age (applicant) to provide the institution with a statement of registration compliance for the United States selective service system (selective service). The act removes the requirement that an applicant register for selective service to enroll in an institution but requires institutions to provide information about selective service to eligible males prior to registration.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1261	Colorado HB 23-1261 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Byron Pelton Janet Buckner Matthew Martinez	9	14	2	2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00	2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e8f0d2d4-28c1-4578-939c-863211d0f74a	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1261	39052c6a87d1bbc6012365ff0c9cb16d7626bee3e7f260170689b19c3d7bd1b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1261 (2023A) — No Requirement For Selective Service Higher Education

Current law requires a male person who is applying for enrollment or reenrollment to a state-supported institution of higher education (institution) and who is at least 17 years and 9 months of age but younger than 26 years of age (applicant) to provide the institution with a statement of registration compliance for the United States selective service system (selective service). The act removes the requirement that an applicant register for selective service to enroll in an institution but requires institutions to provide information about selective service to eligible males prior to registration.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/11/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/01/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8f0d2d4-28c1-4578-939c-863211d0f74a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).