---
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).