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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Professional Educator Licensure Renewal Period"
+description: "The act extends the renewal period for professional teacher, special services educator, principal, and administrator licenses from 5 to 7 years. The act allows for a professional teacher, special services educator, principal, or administrator who is partially through the current 5-year licensing cycle to have that extended to 7 years for that particular cycle.The act makes the following appropriations through adjustments to the long bill:The cash funds appropriation from the educator licensure cash fund made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2021-22 state fiscal year to the department of education for the office of professional services is decreased by $292,532, and the related FTE is decreased by 4.0 FTE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2021A"
+identifier: "HB 21-1104"
+citation: "Colorado HB 21-1104 (2021A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Colin Larson", "Paul Lundeen", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77bcbc4b-3bb7-4aff-bcd2-d85a81fc0c6e"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1104"
+source_hash: "c94fef69a0b8414ad4ec7e122b3d7e640fa818382388fc48d5767132012e2b94"
+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 21-1104 (2021A) — Professional Educator Licensure Renewal Period
+
+The act extends the renewal period for professional teacher, special services educator, principal, and administrator licenses from 5 to 7 years. The act allows for a professional teacher, special services educator, principal, or administrator who is partially through the current 5-year licensing cycle to have that extended to 7 years for that particular cycle.The act makes the following appropriations through adjustments to the long bill:The cash funds appropriation from the educator licensure cash fund made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2021-22 state fiscal year to the department of education for the office of professional services is decreased by $292,532, and the related FTE is decreased by 4.0 FTE.
+
+## 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/2021a_hb1104_s_app_003.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (06/09/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (03/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104ed_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104app.pdf)
+7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_ren.pdf)
+8. **Rerevised (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_rer.pdf)
+9. **Revised (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1104_rev.pdf)
+10. **Signed Act (06/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1104_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **55–8** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
+- Colin Larson — primary (person)
+- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
+- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
+- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
+- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
+- **2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77bcbc4b-3bb7-4aff-bcd2-d85a81fc0c6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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