---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Childhood Educator Income Tax Credit"
description: "For 4 income tax years beginning in 2022, the act creates a refundable income tax credit for an early childhood educator who:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1010"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1010 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Emily Sirota", "Janet Buckner", "Tonya Van Beber"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc3368f9-0d40-4fe4-bfc2-9df79970ca6b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1010"
source_hash: "cd39808024fe8d776171ce592c81c599e8acf42fdfcea72b484a0ac299cae4c9"
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 22-1010 (2022A) — Early Childhood Educator Income Tax Credit

For 4 income tax years beginning in 2022, the act creates a refundable income tax credit for an early childhood educator who:

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_hb1010_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010hed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_h_ed_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/28/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_s_fin_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1010_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1010_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **47–14** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–3** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **49–16** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **52–13** (pass) · lower
- COW * — **13–20** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Tonya Van Beber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T07:00:00+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/fc3368f9-0d40-4fe4-bfc2-9df79970ca6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).