---
type: "Bill"
title: "Additional Requirements Nursing Facility Funding"
description: "The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to do the following, with respect to nursing facility providers (nursing facilities):"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1247"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1247 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Chris Hansen", "Julie McCluskie", "Leslie Herod"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6351dd6a-4799-4b5d-bf6e-b13586f518f9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1247"
source_hash: "ae68d9b6453c21f2a5aedeb465212e0fd1f3996227a4b056a761fd51b5065295"
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 22-1247 (2022A) — Additional Requirements Nursing Facility Funding

The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to do the following, with respect to nursing facility providers (nursing facilities):

## 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_hb1247_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247hpbh_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/17/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1247_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1247_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **59–4** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2022-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2022-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral 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/6351dd6a-4799-4b5d-bf6e-b13586f518f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).