HB 17-1001: Employee Leave Attend Child's Academic Activities

This bill allows parents to take leave from work to attend academic activities such as parent-teacher conferences or meetings related to special education services, interventions, dropout prevention, attendance, truancy, or discipline issues.

Legislative procedure in Colorado requires every introduced bill to have a hearing in committee. The committee members will either support the bill and vote pass it out of committee for consideration by the full body, or kill the bill and vote to "postpone indefinitely.”

A pro-education vote on HB 1001 on the House Floor was a “yes” vote. However, the motion in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee was to "postpone indefinitely” so the pro-education vote was a “no” vote.