---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish Fair Housing Unit Department Of Law"
description: "The act expands the statutory list of state laws for which the attorney general may bring civil and criminal enforcement actions to include various statutory provisions relating to housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1082"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1082 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edie Hooton", "Jennifer Bacon", "Julie Gonzales"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-19T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0220f7be-ddd3-4ecb-b22b-abdd516faea4"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1082"
source_hash: "aa52a48655cbb10190bb997096983b1e4653eeacd138d73f429927ffe7f134b2"
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 22-1082 (2022A) — Establish Fair Housing Unit Department Of Law

The act expands the statutory list of state laws for which the attorney general may bring civil and criminal enforcement actions to include various statutory provisions relating to housing.

## 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_hb1082_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082hjud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_s_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1082_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/17/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1082_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **41–22** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **49–14** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edie Hooton — primary (person)
- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over to 03/10/2022 - No Amendments
- **2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0220f7be-ddd3-4ecb-b22b-abdd516faea4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).