republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1098.md

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Bill	Department Of Regulatory Agencies Barriers To Practice Regulated Professions	The act requires the director of the division of professions and occupations (director) in the department of regulatory agencies to complete, on or before June 1, 2023, an audit of the regulated professions and occupations and the regulation of various professions and occupations by regulators of a specific profession or occupation (regulator) to determine what barriers exist for licensing, certification, and registration of individuals with criminal history records and, on or before July 1, 2023, to report the findings to the general assembly.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1098	Colorado HB 22-1098 (2022A)	bill		enacted	James Coleman Jennifer Bacon Larry Liston Shannon Bird	10	16	2	2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00	2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/801cc6e4-ad6a-42ac-90e6-af7681665414	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1098	6702c64add9152bcc698bc05ba8f1b3fdcad9418fd1022bb15241e81d1806e32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1098 (2022A) — Department Of Regulatory Agencies Barriers To Practice Regulated Professions

The act requires the director of the division of professions and occupations (director) in the department of regulatory agencies to complete, on or before June 1, 2023, an audit of the regulated professions and occupations and the regulation of various professions and occupations by regulators of a specific profession or occupation (regulator) to determine what barriers exist for licensing, certification, and registration of individuals with criminal history records and, on or before July 1, 2023, to report the findings to the general assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/15/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/20/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/11/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/16/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/11/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/08/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Larry Liston — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/801cc6e4-ad6a-42ac-90e6-af7681665414. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).