republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1266.md

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Bill	State Employee Total Compensation Philosophy	The total compensation philosophy for employees in the state personnel system is modified to specify that it is the policy of the state to provide innovative total compensation that meets or exceeds total compensation provided by public or private sector employers to officers and employees in the state personnel system to ensure the recruitment, motivation, and retention of a qualified and competent workforce. References to "prevailing" total compensation and "prevailing practices" in connection with state employee benefits are eliminated.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1266	Colorado HB 22-1266 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Faith Winter Kerry Tipper Matt Gray	8	14	4	2022-02-25T07:00:00+00:00	2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7d75fcc4-1ea9-43e2-a0f3-2105fcff5dd4	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1266	f8deb5d2104675951dafdc1a806402781b71e0ac246ce7b67d7398568433ed2d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1266 (2022A) — State Employee Total Compensation Philosophy

The total compensation philosophy for employees in the state personnel system is modified to specify that it is the policy of the state to provide innovative total compensation that meets or exceeds total compensation provided by public or private sector employers to officers and employees in the state personnel system to ensure the recruitment, motivation, and retention of a qualified and competent workforce. References to "prevailing" total compensation and "prevailing practices" in connection with state employee benefits are eliminated.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/07/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/30/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 40–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–12 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 39–22 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 40–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Kerry Tipper — primary (person)
• Matt Gray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2022-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d75fcc4-1ea9-43e2-a0f3-2105fcff5dd4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).