republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1135.md

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Bill	Portability Background Checks Child Care Workers	The bill creates a new provision that allows a child care worker who is employed in a licensed facility that is wholly owned, operated, and controlled by a common ownership group or school district to use a single completed fingerprint-based criminal history record check and a check of the records and reports of child abuse or neglect maintained by the department of human services to satisfy the requirements of the necessary background checks if the employee also works for or transfers to another licensed facility that is owned, operated, or controlled by the same common ownership group or school district, provided all other requirements for employment are met.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1135	Colorado HB 17-1135 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Jeff Bridges Kevin Priola	8	12	2	2017-01-30T07:00:00+00:00	2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2db024f0-f201-4d26-b74b-fd2c07605c91	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1135	a25d4e3d28940748339b8f71d71e8b686b898b10b154f6f9b28f264367eecbbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1135 (2017A) — Portability Background Checks Child Care Workers

The bill creates a new provision that allows a child care worker who is employed in a licensed facility that is wholly owned, operated, and controlled by a common ownership group or school district to use a single completed fingerprint-based criminal history record check and a check of the records and reports of child abuse or neglect maintained by the department of human services to satisfy the requirements of the necessary background checks if the employee also works for or transfers to another licensed facility that is owned, operated, or controlled by the same common ownership group or school district, provided all other requirements for employment are met.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/17/2017) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/14/2017) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/30/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/21/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/06/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/03/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/20/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1135 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0. — 5–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1135 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0, with one excused. — 12–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2017-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2017-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2017-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-01-30T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2db024f0-f201-4d26-b74b-fd2c07605c91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).