---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vacancy Committee Selection"
description: "Under current law, a vacancy in the office of many political officials is filled by a vacancy committee. A vacancy committee is selected by the relevant central committee. The act requires central committees to include at least all of the members of the relevant central committee on a vacancy committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1044"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1044 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kennedy", "Dave Williams", "Jeff Bridges"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab251f2e-3fdd-40a4-a66d-250ac21d45ec"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1044"
source_hash: "f76fa97f84670727603464b073ff0791aac0ce2417ccb6bd2f1e37cb4369cc06"
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 22-1044 (2022A) — Vacancy Committee Selection

Under current law, a vacancy in the office of many political officials is filled by a vacancy committee. A vacancy committee is selected by the relevant central committee. The act requires central committees to include at least all of the members of the relevant central committee on a vacancy committee.

## 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_hb1044_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/15/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044hsa_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1044_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1044_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–11** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **46–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
- Dave Williams — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab251f2e-3fdd-40a4-a66d-250ac21d45ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).