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type: "Bill"
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title: "Access to Educator Pathways"
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description: "The act allows a currently licensed Colorado teacher seeking to add an early childhood education endorsement, early childhood special education endorsement, elementary education endorsement, or special education generalist endorsement to demonstrate professional competencies by submitting evidence of achieving sufficiently high education coursework grades on coursework aligned with relevant standards as approved by the department of education."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2025A"
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identifier: "SB 25-154"
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citation: "Colorado SB 25-154 (2025A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cathy Kipp", "Eliza Hamrick", "Matt Soper"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a13bc8-1844-4297-8de4-93381edc710f"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-154"
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source_hash: "c46da4f5828480309dbafb0231fabad05751336f0e3078e15c6d9ede115250c2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado SB 25-154 (2025A) — Access to Educator Pathways
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The act allows a currently licensed Colorado teacher seeking to add an early childhood education endorsement, early childhood special education endorsement, elementary education endorsement, or special education generalist endorsement to demonstrate professional competencies by submitting evidence of achieving sufficiently high education coursework grades on coursework aligned with relevant standards as approved by the department of education.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_sb154_h_ed_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (03/10/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/07/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (02/05/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (03/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_s_ed_01.pdf)
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6. **Reengrossed (03/11/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_ren.pdf)
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7. **Rerevised (04/17/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_rer.pdf)
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8. **Revised (04/16/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_154_rev.pdf)
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9. **Signed Act (05/09/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_154_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **25–9** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **45–18** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Cathy Kipp — primary (person)
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- Eliza Hamrick — primary (person)
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- Matt Soper — primary (person)
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- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
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- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
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- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
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- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
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- D. Michaelson Jenet — cosponsor (person)
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- E. Sirota — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Winter — cosponsor (person)
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- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
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- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
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- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
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- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Lukens — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
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- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Bird — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Woodrow — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2025-04-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
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- **2025-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4a13bc8-1844-4297-8de4-93381edc710f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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