---
type: "Bill"
title: "International Medical Graduate Integrate Health-care Workforce"
description: "Section 1 of the act makes legislative declarations and findings regarding the shortage of health-care providers in the state, the presence of qualified, internationally trained medical professionals in the state, the ability of those professionals to assist the state in addressing health-care workforce needs, the barriers to entry into the health-care workforce these professionals face, and the need to reduce those barriers to facilitate the integration of these professionals into the state's health-care workforce."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1050"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1050 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janet Buckner", "Naquetta Ricks"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6dc132a-1185-40ba-80b2-ab709da9fd1e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1050"
source_hash: "161d361d5e752d28db8bd4022e4b2e387c07ed6224a453e34f3e97f6c594ee08"
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 22-1050 (2022A) — International Medical Graduate Integrate Health-care Workforce

Section 1 of the act makes legislative declarations and findings regarding the shortage of health-care providers in the state, the presence of qualified, internationally trained medical professionals in the state, the ability of those professionals to assist the state in addressing health-care workforce needs, the barriers to entry into the health-care workforce these professionals face, and the need to reduce those barriers to facilitate the integration of these professionals into the state's health-care workforce.

## 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_hb1050_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/13/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050hhi_02.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_h_hi_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1050_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1050_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–13** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6dc132a-1185-40ba-80b2-ab709da9fd1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).