republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/hb-25-1278.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education Accountability System"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1278"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1278 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Meghan Lukens", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b77408e-4fba-4f63-9298-4a0486801c3f"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1278"
source_hash: "28da5d23f65269e1e4f0553e6812915ae7dac81d75aaa8f2945f37b46360b162"
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 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](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_hb1278_s_app_005.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/20/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/01/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_h_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/25/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_h_ed_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/02/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1278_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/23/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1278_signed.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b77408e-4fba-4f63-9298-4a0486801c3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).