---
type: "Bill"
title: "Broadband Provider's Use Of Public Rights-of-way"
description: "The act requires the department of transportation (CDOT) to develop an electronic application, permitting, contract, and fee structure to facilitate access by nongovernmental entities to public rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband and requires acceptances and denials of such access by CDOT to be provided in writing and made available to the public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-083"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-083 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Marc Catlin", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74993b72-e944-4bc9-9d53-4cf7cde3f217"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-083"
source_hash: "62762a5029fde6d427fec90b801c6cc2045ef9d43137efff8e89c632a7b2216a"
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 22-083 (2022A) — Broadband Provider's Use Of Public Rights-of-way

The act requires the department of transportation (CDOT) to develop an electronic application, permitting, contract, and fee structure to facilitate access by nongovernmental entities to public rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband and requires acceptances and denials of such access by CDOT to be provided in writing and made available to the public.

## 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_sb083_h_tlg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083ssa_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_083_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_083_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **65–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Marc Catlin — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2022-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74993b72-e944-4bc9-9d53-4cf7cde3f217`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).