republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-161.md

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Bill	Wage Theft Employee Misclassification Enforcement	The act updates and modifies laws pertaining to the payment of wages and employee misclassification, and the enforcement procedures and remedies for violations of those laws, as follows:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-161	Colorado SB 22-161 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Jessie Danielson Meg Froelich Monica Duran Sonya Jaquez Lewis	11	16	4	2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00	2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1b724169-34ae-4f3a-8ba8-f5f405c53f57	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-161	03ddb554b9be8fa683829d049103413972116219364794c9bcebb43740a9e287	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-161 (2022A) — Wage Theft Employee Misclassification Enforcement

The act updates and modifies laws pertaining to the payment of wages and employee misclassification, and the enforcement procedures and remedies for violations of those laws, as follows:

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/02/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/20/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/02/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/05/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/10/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/05/2022) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b724169-34ae-4f3a-8ba8-f5f405c53f57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).