---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace Officer Status For Certain Department Of Revenue Employees"
description: "The act specifies that motor vehicle investigators and criminal tax enforcement special agents are peace officers and must be certified by the peace officers standards and training (P.O.S.T.) board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1088"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1088 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donald Valdez", "Larry Liston", "Perry Will", "Pete Lee"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c5242c3-31c2-4860-91c8-6eed7bb293b8"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1088"
source_hash: "6a504de1c9a96bb7ef3fb61dcd4c80a9e43213f3ec98e169c70eaa96253f2120"
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 22-1088 (2022A) — Peace Officer Status For Certain Department Of Revenue Employees

The act specifies that motor vehicle investigators and criminal tax enforcement special agents are peace officers and must be certified by the peace officers standards and training (P.O.S.T.) board.

## 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_hb1088_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/15/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1088_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/30/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1088_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **41–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Donald Valdez — primary (person)
- Larry Liston — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)
- Pete Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c5242c3-31c2-4860-91c8-6eed7bb293b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).