republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1461.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Exemption for College Program Completion Earned Time	Under existing law, the department of corrections may, for an inmate who was sentenced for a nonviolent felony offense, deduct earned time from the inmate's sentence for each accredited degree or other credential awarded by an institution of higher education to the inmate while the inmate is incarcerated or on parole (degree or credential earned time). The act exempts degree or credential earned time from the statutory limit on earned time.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1461	Colorado HB 24-1461 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Matthew Martinez Rose Pugliese	8	12	2	2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00	2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5a501097-0f5a-4d6d-b53f-e801f2cb0c27	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1461	5ae6286198deb5b8909ca3cbd29efa03a1eabef839ef4a8ab98e83a7f091b477	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1461 (2024A) — Exemption for College Program Completion Earned Time

Under existing law, the department of corrections may, for an inmate who was sentenced for a nonviolent felony offense, deduct earned time from the inmate's sentence for each accredited degree or other credential awarded by an institution of higher education to the inmate while the inmate is incarcerated or on parole (degree or credential earned time). The act exempts degree or credential earned time from the statutory limit on earned time.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/25/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/26/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Matthew Martinez — primary (person)
• Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a501097-0f5a-4d6d-b53f-e801f2cb0c27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).