republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-084.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Full-time Employment For Higher Education Faculty"
description: "To determine if a faculty or teacher at a state or nonprofit institution of higher education (institution) is a full-time employee under the federal public loan forgiveness program (program), the act requires the faculty's or teacher's credit or contact hours to be multiplied by at least 4.35 to determine the number of hours worked. The act directs institutions to either directly certify employment for the program or annually provide employees with partially completed forms to certify their employment. The act allows an institution to apply this calculation going back to October 1, 2007."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "SB 23-084"
citation: "Colorado SB 23-084 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janice Marchman", "Julie Gonzales", "Mary Young"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebf7bc25-b93e-43ca-8f2e-ff95aa933b70"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-084"
source_hash: "dbced074ab54dc9e63a20ea4432730283696706cdf29011727b0a86a409ac8da"
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 23-084 (2023A) — Full-time Employment For Higher Education Faculty

To determine if a faculty or teacher at a state or nonprofit institution of higher education (institution) is a full-time employee under the federal public loan forgiveness program (program), the act requires the faculty's or teacher's credit or contact hours to be multiplied by at least 4.35 to determine the number of hours worked. The act directs institutions to either directly certify employment for the program or annually provide employees with partially completed forms to certify their employment. The act allows an institution to apply this calculation going back to October 1, 2007.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_sb084_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/27/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/09/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/03/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_h_ed_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/08/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/07/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_084_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/23/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_084_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Mary Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27T07:00:00+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/ebf7bc25-b93e-43ca-8f2e-ff95aa933b70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).