---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Assistance Income Eligibility Requirements"
description: "The act aligns the medicaid and children's basic health plan income eligibility requirements for pregnant women and children with federal law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-052"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-052 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Smallwood", "Kyle Mullica", "Mary Bradfield", "Sonya Jaquez Lewis"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a1a1c1d-d903-47d6-b16d-b2e31a811a51"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-052"
source_hash: "11bd6794199ac9c0f9ecd651adf8b295d9388c5e4f3434acc48e4d32c7864003"
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 SB 22-052 (2022A) — Medical Assistance Income Eligibility Requirements

The act aligns the medicaid and children's basic health plan income eligibility requirements for pregnant women and children with federal law.

## 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_sb052_h_pbh_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052shhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_h_pbh_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/15/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_052_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/24/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_052_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **53–8** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
- Mary Bradfield — primary (person)
- Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a1a1c1d-d903-47d6-b16d-b2e31a811a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).