---
type: "Bill"
title: "Collective Bargaining For Counties"
description: "Beginning July 1, 2023, the act grants the public employees of a county with a population of 7,500 people or more (county employees) the right to:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-230"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-230 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "Dominick Moreno", "Stephen Fenberg"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91eba737-37b3-4665-9dca-fde697ea7135"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-230"
source_hash: "9663bd088606fa3cb74874e82daf5b6652c2c3d06fa8f12cf15cb1a7db34c603"
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 22-230 (2022A) — Collective Bargaining For Counties

Beginning July 1, 2023, the act grants the public employees of a county with a population of 7,500 people or more (county employees) the right to:

## 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_sb230_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_h_sa_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_h_sa_app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_rn2.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_rr2.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_230_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/27/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_230_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **61–4** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **29–36** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **60–5** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **61–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91eba737-37b3-4665-9dca-fde697ea7135`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).