---
type: "Bill"
title: "School District-authorized Instructors"
description: "Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional teacher license or professional special services license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill changes the requirement from 3 years of continuous experience to 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2018A"
identifier: "HB 18-1130"
citation: "Colorado HB 18-1130 (2018A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Dave Williams", "Jeni James Arndt"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51eb5b5e-d3d8-42f6-8af7-7c32ffbb2070"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1130"
source_hash: "ae5c06f01fd14d98c66ae01766e350b3287b247ef2e8d9a0fbce5327b876b854"
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 18-1130 (2018A) — School District-authorized Instructors

Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional teacher license or professional special services license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill changes the requirement from 3 years of continuous experience to 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years.

## 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/documents/2018a/bills/cr/2018a_hb1130_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/15/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/21/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/19/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/16/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/15/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/14/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/29/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_1130_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **30–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Dave Williams — primary (person)
- Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2018-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-19T07:00:00+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/51eb5b5e-d3d8-42f6-8af7-7c32ffbb2070`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).