republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-050.md

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Bill	Work Opportunities For Offenders In Department Of Corrections	The act clarifies the opportunities available to inmates imprisoned by the department of corrections (department). The act clarifies that the rehabilitation and work opportunities available to inmates are to promote the person's successful rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration into the community. The act clarifies a distinction between external programs, which occur in partnership with employers outside of department facilities, and internal programs, which occur inside a department facility and may be in partnership with employers outside of department facilities. The act amends inmate compensation and permissible deductions from an inmate's account.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-050	Colorado SB 22-050 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Dennis Hisey James Coleman Matt Soper Tony Exum	9	13	4	2022-01-18T07:00:00+00:00	2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cb33097f-6a31-4e3b-9391-007b7994889b	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-050	ecd5bb91ec0bcbd4cfcd3d2d9f9fce40d6547415307ea9c0eacc8b8603164611	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-050 (2022A) — Work Opportunities For Offenders In Department Of Corrections

The act clarifies the opportunities available to inmates imprisoned by the department of corrections (department). The act clarifies that the rehabilitation and work opportunities available to inmates are to promote the person's successful rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration into the community. The act clarifies a distinction between external programs, which occur in partnership with employers outside of department facilities, and internal programs, which occur inside a department facility and may be in partnership with employers outside of department facilities. The act amends inmate compensation and permissible deductions from an inmate's account.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/22/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/17/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/14/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/30/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 54–10 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Tony Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2022-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-01-18T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cb33097f-6a31-4e3b-9391-007b7994889b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).