READ Act Statute and State Board Rules

The Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act (Colorado READ Act) was passed by the Colorado legislature in 2012, giving the state the guiding philosophy, structure and resources to get children reading at grade level by the time they enter the fourth grade. After six years of implementation of the READ Act, schools and districts were not seeing the dramatic improvements in reading levels envisioned by state leaders which led to updates in the READ Act through the passage of SB-19-99.

The Colorado READ Act (PDF) - revised 2019

• ​Senate Bill 19-199 (PDF): amendments to the READ Act May 2019

• House Bill 18-1393 (PDF): amendments to the READ Act May 2018

• House Bill 17-1160 (PDF) amendments to the READ Act May 2017

House Bill 12-1238 (PDF): The Colorado READ Act (original statute)

Rules

• 1 CCR 301-90: Rules for Administration of Early Literacy Grant Program (PDF) 11/30/18

• 1 CCR 301-92: Rules for Administration of the Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act - READ Act (PDF) 11/30/17