republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1149.md

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Bill	Comprehensive Black History & Culture Education in K-12	The act requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt standards related to Black historical and cultural studies (standards). Local education providers shall incorporate the standards into courses for public elementary and secondary school students in the state no later than 2 years after the state board adopts the standards. The act aligns the timeline for the development, adoption, and integration of the standards with the 6-year cycle that the state board of education currently uses for revising the state academic standards.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1149	Colorado HB 25-1149 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Regina English Tony Exum	11	15	4	2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c00bc177-2a27-4512-8caf-22234548034e	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1149	6911a522ec034b483a183549a4aab84d29d375bb9d69e622ac178f6532f131f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1149 (2025A) — Comprehensive Black History & Culture Education in K-12

The act requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt standards related to Black historical and cultural studies (standards). Local education providers shall incorporate the standards into courses for public elementary and secondary school students in the state no later than 2 years after the state board adopts the standards. The act aligns the timeline for the development, adoption, and integration of the standards with the 6-year cycle that the state board of education currently uses for revising the state academic standards.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/07/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/21/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/15/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/24/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/16/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/03/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 45–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 45–20 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 44–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Regina English — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Paschal — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
• D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
• E. Velasco — cosponsor (person)
• F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. Danielson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mabrey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
• M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
• N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
• S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
• T. Story — cosponsor (person)
• T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2025-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c00bc177-2a27-4512-8caf-22234548034e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).