republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-172.md

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Bill	Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative	The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-172	Colorado SB 22-172 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Dylan Roberts Faith Winter Janice Rich	10	15	2	2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00	2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-172	da4c9468157a827dc393301900967ec563e77eb57d71a58b84101cc9c057589f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-172 (2022A) — Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative

The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/10/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/09/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/01/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–10 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 31–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Janice Rich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).