Summary of Major Legislation

Summary of 2022 K-12 Education Legislation

Subjects

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

General Assembly

Agency

Published

08/03/2022

During the 2022 legislative session, the General Assembly considered measures related to kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) education in Colorado. Specifically, the legislature adopted bills pertaining to student support and services; curriculum and postsecondary options; teacher and other staff evaluations and support; public school funding; and administration and governance.

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Final/Annual Reports

2015 Off Highway Vehicle Interim Committee Final Report

Pursuant to Interim Committee Letter 2015-7. The purpose of this committee is to study issues related to the use of OHVs on roads and recommend up to three bills for Legislative Council approval.

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/18/2015

Subjects:

General Assembly

Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Final/Annual Reports

2015 Profiling-Initiated Contacts by Law Enforcement Interim Committee Final Report

Pursuant to Interim Committee Letter 2015-5, submitted as required by Section 2-3-303.3, Colorado Revised Statutes. The purpose of this committee is to study data collection and evaluation methods related to contacts made by law enforcement officers to determine whether profiling is occurring in...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/18/2015

Subjects:

Courts & Judicial

Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement

General Assembly

Final/Annual Reports

2015 Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension Reform Commission Final Report

Pursuant to Section 31-31-2001, C.R.S. The purpose of this commission is to study and review the benefit systems of the Fire and Police Pension Association.

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/18/2015

Subjects:

Financial Services & Commerce

General Assembly

Local Government

Final/Annual Reports

2015 School Safety and Youth in Crisis Interim Committee Final Report

Pursuant to Article 15 of Title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes. The purpose of this committee is to study issues relating to school safety and threat prevention in public and private schools; programs and methods for identifying and monitoring students in crisis; standardized criteria for school...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/18/2015

Subjects:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

General Assembly

Final/Annual Reports

2015 Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission Final Report

Pursuant to Section 26-6.5-203, Colorado Revised Statutes. The purpose of this commission is to study issues related to early childhood and school readiness in order to improve the state’s early childhood policies.

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/18/2015

Subjects:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

General Assembly

Issue Briefs

Negative Factor and Public School Finance (2015)

The “negative factor” is a provision in state law that reduces the amount of total program funding and state aid provided to K-12 school districts. This issue brief discusses how the negative factor is applied in the School Finance Act (SFA), gives a short history of school finance leading to...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

12/01/2015

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Staff Publications

Financing of Public Schools for Fiscal Year 2015-16

Senate Bill 15-267 amends the Public School Finance Act of 1994 to provide funding for school districts in FY 2015-16. The bill was signed by the Governor on June 5, 2015, and became effective on that date. Senate Bill 15-234, the "Long Bill," appropriates most of the state aid distributed to...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

08/24/2015

Subjects:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

State Revenue & Budget

Staff Publications