---
type: "Bill"
title: "Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative"
description: "The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-172"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-172 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Dylan Roberts", "Faith Winter", "Janice Rich"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-172"
source_hash: "da4c9468157a827dc393301900967ec563e77eb57d71a58b84101cc9c057589f"
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 22-172 (2022A) — Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative

The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution.

## 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_sb172_h_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/23/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_172_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **55–10** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **31–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Janice Rich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23T06:00:00+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/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).