republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/hb-18-1095.md

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Bill	Educator License Requirements Military Spouses	Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill exempts military spouses, as defined in the bill, from the requirement that the teaching or special services experience be continuous, and instead requires 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	HB 18-1095	Colorado HB 18-1095 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Jeni James Arndt Nancy Todd Terri Carver	9	13	2	2018-01-18T07:00:00+00:00	2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0f847ef6-636c-4d76-8833-dff46dda4abe	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb18-1095	2fe1bfe4749a54272a09d43c05dc1e4ce23b481e236b3a1765e12e76d8304c15	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 18-1095 (2018A) — Educator License Requirements Military Spouses

Under current law, the department of education may issue a professional license to a teacher or special services provider who holds a comparable license from another state and has 3 years of continuous teaching or special services experience. The bill exempts military spouses, as defined in the bill, from the requirement that the teaching or special services experience be continuous, and instead requires 3 years of experience within the previous 7 years.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/02/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/08/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 29–6 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 60–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
• Nancy Todd — primary (person)
• Terri Carver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2018-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2018-01-31T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-18T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f847ef6-636c-4d76-8833-dff46dda4abe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).