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Bill	School District-authorized Instructors	Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional teacher license or professional special services license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill changes the requirement from 3 years of continuous experience to 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1130	Colorado HB 18-1130 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Dave Williams Jeni James Arndt	9	12	2	2018-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51eb5b5e-d3d8-42f6-8af7-7c32ffbb2070	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1130	ae5c06f01fd14d98c66ae01766e350b3287b247ef2e8d9a0fbce5327b876b854	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1130 (2018A) — School District-authorized Instructors

Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional teacher license or professional special services license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill changes the requirement from 3 years of continuous experience to 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/21/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/14/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 30–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Dave Williams — primary (person)
• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51eb5b5e-d3d8-42f6-8af7-7c32ffbb2070. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).