---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fiscal Year 2022-23 Legislative Appropriation Bill"
description: "The act appropriates $61,419,806 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $50,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department and further appropriates to the legislative council, for use in the 2022-23 state fiscal year for new member orientation, $17,500 that was appropriated to but not expended by the legislative council in the 2021-22 state fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1286"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1286 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alec Garnett", "Daneya Esgar", "Dominick Moreno", "Stephen Fenberg"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d91e3a47-a107-465f-920a-f17980fd5a99"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1286"
source_hash: "1d78c780aa8728d183bad5c06a2176d6f3f792cb6a6bd71a083805230e7ef105"
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 22-1286 (2022A) — Fiscal Year 2022-23 Legislative Appropriation Bill

The act appropriates $61,419,806 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $50,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department and further appropriates to the legislative council, for use in the 2022-23 state fiscal year for new member orientation, $17,500 that was appropriated to but not expended by the legislative council in the 2021-22 state fiscal year.

## 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_hb1286_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/17/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/31/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1286_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1286_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **20–14** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alec Garnett — primary (person)
- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2022-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d91e3a47-a107-465f-920a-f17980fd5a99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).