---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Employees' Retirement Association Service Retiree Employment In Rural Schools"
description: "The act expands a program, which had been scheduled to repeal on July 1, 2023, that allows a public employees' retirement association (PERA) service retiree to work full-time without any reduction in the service retiree's retirement benefits for a rural school district that has a critical shortage of qualified individuals with specific experience, skills, or qualifications that the service retiree has by:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1101"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1101 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara McLachlan", "Jerry Sonnenberg", "Marc Catlin", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c889403-972d-497a-b043-5c618212e4f0"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1101"
source_hash: "83cc5c4744f35d15f53bc6af1b6ad31df70e0cbdeabf6252f536a5f5660af321"
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 22-1101 (2022A) — Public Employees' Retirement Association Service Retiree Employment In Rural Schools

The act expands a program, which had been scheduled to repeal on July 1, 2023, that allows a public employees' retirement association (PERA) service retiree to work full-time without any reduction in the service retiree's retirement benefits for a rural school district that has a critical shortage of qualified individuals with specific experience, skills, or qualifications that the service retiree has by:

## 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_hb1101_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/23/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101hed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/24/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1101_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1101_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **28–3** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **51–13** (pass) · lower
- AMEND — **4–27** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
- Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T07:00:00+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/9c889403-972d-497a-b043-5c618212e4f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).