republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-219.md

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Bill	Regulate Dental Therapists	On and after May 1, 2023, the act prohibits a person from practicing dental therapy in the state unless licensed by the Colorado dental board (board). A licensed dental therapist is authorized to deliver routine and preventive dental care.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-219	Colorado SB 22-219 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Dominick Moreno Jim Smallwood Monica Duran	11	16	4	2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00	2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8e5750fe-4160-4a63-ae2f-0f6744f982f0	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-219	6742a166887be3d4473e387f8edb2e586647dd843201d001b4a86fed8a2147ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-219 (2022A) — Regulate Dental Therapists

On and after May 1, 2023, the act prohibits a person from practicing dental therapy in the state unless licensed by the Colorado dental board (board). A licensed dental therapist is authorized to deliver routine and preventive dental care.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/26/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/02/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/11/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/10/2022) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/07/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Monica Duran — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 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 Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e5750fe-4160-4a63-ae2f-0f6744f982f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).