---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Audit Higher Education Courses"
description: "The act requires an institution of higher education that has a program or policy that permits a person to audit courses for no credit to permit a veteran to audit courses, subject to any other requirements of the program or policy. An institution may set and collect a fee of no more than $10 per course audited by a veteran for up to three courses per academic semester. The institution may permit a veteran to audit additional courses for a different fee. The general assembly encourages each institution that does not have an existing audit program or policy to permit veterans to audit courses for no credit. A veteran auditing a course is not an eligible student for the purposes of receiving a college opportunity fund stipend."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1407"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1407 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ortiz", "Donald Valdez", "Nick Hinrichsen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd126c52-121b-43e4-a9fc-ac472ae7b8d3"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1407"
source_hash: "ab3bfa659a23e2538755c796909c7928540113cf29ca5b43bf3cfb3c0555bc38"
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 22-1407 (2022A) — Veterans Audit Higher Education Courses

The act requires an institution of higher education that has a program or policy that permits a person to audit courses for no credit to permit a veteran to audit courses, subject to any other requirements of the program or policy. An institution may set and collect a fee of no more than $10 per course audited by a veteran for up to three courses per academic semester. The institution may permit a veteran to audit additional courses for a different fee. The general assembly encourages each institution that does not have an existing audit program or policy to permit veterans to audit courses for no credit. A veteran auditing a course is not an eligible student for the purposes of receiving a college opportunity fund stipend.

## 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_hb1407_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_h_bus_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1407_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/27/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1407_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **62–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Ortiz — primary (person)
- Donald Valdez — primary (person)
- Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd126c52-121b-43e4-a9fc-ac472ae7b8d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).