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Bill	Education Accountability System	The accountability, accreditation, student performance, and resource inequity task force (task force) studied and made recommendations on academic opportunities, inequities, promising practices in schools, and improvements to the accountability and accreditation system. The act implements some recommendations of the task force.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	HB 25-1278	Colorado HB 25-1278 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Dafna Michaelson Jenet Meghan Lukens Shannon Bird	10	15	4	2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00	2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9b77408e-4fba-4f63-9298-4a0486801c3f	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1278	28da5d23f65269e1e4f0553e6812915ae7dac81d75aaa8f2945f37b46360b162	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 25-1278 (2025A) — Education Accountability System

The accountability, accreditation, student performance, and resource inequity task force (task force) studied and made recommendations on academic opportunities, inequities, promising practices in schools, and improvements to the accountability and accreditation system. The act implements some recommendations of the task force.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/20/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/28/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/05/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 51–13 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• PERM — 43–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Meghan Lukens — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
• C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
• G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
• I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• J. Joseph — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
• L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
• L. García — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• M. Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
• N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
• R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2025-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b77408e-4fba-4f63-9298-4a0486801c3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).