republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2025a/sb-25-315.md

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Bill	Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness Programs	The act creates a postsecondary and workforce readiness funding model that includes 3 types of funding: Start-up funding, innovation grant funding, and sustain funding. The state board of education (state board) is authorized to adopt rules concerning these funding sources.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2025A	SB 25-315	Colorado SB 25-315 (2025A)	bill		enacted	Barbara Kirkmeyer Emily Sirota Jeff Bridges Shannon Bird	10	13	4	2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c47a553d-c8d1-4993-b48a-767b8e225cd1	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-315	b44e5a26ac1de3742cc82346780b258be451488b9692f654550c7967989baa0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 25-315 (2025A) — Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness Programs

The act creates a postsecondary and workforce readiness funding model that includes 3 types of funding: Start-up funding, innovation grant funding, and sustain funding. The state board of education (state board) is authorized to adopt rules concerning these funding sources.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/14/2025) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/25/2025) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/29/2025) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/30/2025) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/02/2025) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/01/2025) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/23/2025) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 50–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)
• A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
• A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
• J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
• L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• M. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
• M. Froelich — cosponsor (person)
• M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
• R. Taggart — cosponsor (person)
• S. Camacho — cosponsor (person)
• S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
• T. Exum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2025-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2025-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2025-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2025-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations introduction
• 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
• 2025-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c47a553d-c8d1-4993-b48a-767b8e225cd1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).