republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1127.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extend Public Employees' Retirement Association Retiree Work After Retirement Limit"
description: "A service retiree of any division of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) is allowed to work for a PERA employer for limited periods and to receive a salary without reduction in benefits under certain circumstances. Boards of cooperative services (BOCES) provide special education services to the school districts they serve. Almost all of these school districts are in rural parts of the state and it is difficult for BOCES to find qualified people to serve as special service providers in these areas. BOCES could address this issue by hiring service retirees, but PERA's employment-after-retirement provisions, including the limitation on the number of days in a calendar year that a service retiree may work for a PERA employer without a reduction in benefits, make it difficult to do so."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1127"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1127 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Jerry Sonnenberg", "Julie McCluskie", "Nancy Todd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-15T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-13T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0744c95-5956-45e4-ada5-0b5033221d06"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1127"
source_hash: "998cc6f7115af0ed5de939c675e2de8dd3329d0a6287e99a415bac0ecb991a36"
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 20-1127 (2020A) — Extend Public Employees' Retirement Association Retiree Work After Retirement Limit

A service retiree of any division of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) is allowed to work for a PERA employer for limited periods and to receive a salary without reduction in benefits under certain circumstances. Boards of cooperative services (BOCES) provide special education services to the school districts they serve. Almost all of these school districts are in rural parts of the state and it is difficult for BOCES to find qualified people to serve as special service providers in these areas. BOCES could address this issue by hiring service retirees, but PERA's employment-after-retirement provisions, including the limitation on the number of days in a calendar year that a service retiree may work for a PERA employer without a reduction in benefits, make it difficult to do so.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_hb1127_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/27/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/16/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/15/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (06/01/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (05/28/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1127_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (07/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1127_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **50–13** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **28–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-13T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0744c95-5956-45e4-ada5-0b5033221d06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).