republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1439.md

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Bill	Financial Incentives Expand Apprenticeship Programs	For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035, section 1 of the act creates a refundable state income tax credit (tax credit) that an employer may claim if the employer employs an apprentice for at least 6 months during an income tax year and either has a registered apprenticeship program or is an employer-partner of a registered apprenticeship program. The amount of the tax credit is up to $6,300 for 6 months of employment plus up to $1,050 for each additional month of employment, for a maximum of up to $12,600 per apprentice per income tax year. An employer may not claim a credit for:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1439	Colorado HB 24-1439 (2024A)	bill		enacted	James Coleman Jenny Willford Mark Baisley Ron Weinberg	11	15	4	2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00	2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/44a8f0e1-9a47-4e21-b993-76be556b2dea	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1439	a4db340a42fde2606115fce3e6069d0fb6fdd0f6a2455e4e13fcb1e2556d83ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1439 (2024A) — Financial Incentives Expand Apprenticeship Programs

For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035, section 1 of the act creates a refundable state income tax credit (tax credit) that an employer may claim if the employer employs an apprentice for at least 6 months during an income tax year and either has a registered apprenticeship program or is an employer-partner of a registered apprenticeship program. The amount of the tax credit is up to $6,300 for 6 months of employment plus up to $1,050 for each additional month of employment, for a maximum of up to $12,600 per apprentice per income tax year. An employer may not claim a credit for:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/30/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/08/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/30/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/10/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 45–19 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 53–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 45–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Jenny Willford — primary (person)
• Mark Baisley — primary (person)
• Ron Weinberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44a8f0e1-9a47-4e21-b993-76be556b2dea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).