Concerning modifications to the college kickstarter account program.

Concerning measures to support education-based workforce readiness, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for college textbooks.

Concerning credential assessment tools, and, in connection therewith, integrating frameworks for nondegree credential evaluation and classification into state education and workforce systems, aligning stackable credential pathways and apprenticeship programs with international classification standards, and making an appropriation.

Concerning state funding for four projects related to health sciences education programs for medical professions being undertaken by state institutions of higher education, and, in connection therewith, authorizing the state to issue financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements to finance a portion of capital costs associated with construction of facilities for the university of northern Colorado's college of osteopathic medicine, metropolitan state university of Denver's health institute tower, Colorado state university's veterinary health education campus, and expansion and renovation of Trinidad state college's valley campus main building, providing funding for escrow money that is required for accreditation of the university of northern Colorado's college of osteopathic medicine by transferring money from the general fund for ultimate deposit to an escrow account and reducing the state reserve by the same amount for the period during which the money is held in escrow, and making an appropriation.

Concerning an exception for appropriations of less than two million dollars in new legislation to the requirement that appropriation increases for student financial aid align with appropriation increases to institutions of higher education.

Concerning the designation of state institutions of higher education as first-generation-serving institutions.

Concerning the creation of the "Colorado College Preparation and Enrichment Program".

Concerning extending the deadline for the Colorado commission on higher education's statewide longitudinal data system report, and, in connection therewith, extending a related existing appropriation.