republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1053.md

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Bill	Supports For Early Childhood Educator Workforce	The act directs the state board of human services (state board) in the department of human services (DHS) to establish licensing standards that will allow an early care and education program to be licensed for a period of time determined by the state board if one or more early childhood educators have pursued DHS-approved early childhood credentials but have not yet completed the credential and other state-board-determined quality, safety, and supervision conditions are met. The state board shall also promulgate rules allowing an early childhood educator to earn points toward an early childhood credential based on the candidate's prior experience and demonstrated competency. DHS and the department of education (CDE) shall streamline and align the early childhood professional credential, child care program licensing, and educator licensing to make requirements clear and consistent and to reduce the administrative and paperwork burden relating to credentialing and licensing of early childhood educators. DHS shall analyze and prepare a written report every year, starting in 2022, concerning Colorado's current supply of qualified early childhood educators.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1053	Colorado HB 20-1053 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Emily Sirota James Wilson Tammy Story	10	13	2	2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e2087711-4dd6-4140-8db0-a5cb215c3a6f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1053	40217daca1e67b27dbc6d14554dcefe20e8fffe0474ff48f91cabe0a3b0ca166	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1053 (2020A) — Supports For Early Childhood Educator Workforce

The act directs the state board of human services (state board) in the department of human services (DHS) to establish licensing standards that will allow an early care and education program to be licensed for a period of time determined by the state board if one or more early childhood educators have pursued DHS-approved early childhood credentials but have not yet completed the credential and other state-board-determined quality, safety, and supervision conditions are met. The state board shall also promulgate rules allowing an early childhood educator to earn points toward an early childhood credential based on the candidate's prior experience and demonstrated competency. DHS and the department of education (CDE) shall streamline and align the early childhood professional credential, child care program licensing, and educator licensing to make requirements clear and consistent and to reduce the administrative and paperwork burden relating to credentialing and licensing of early childhood educators. DHS shall analyze and prepare a written report every year, starting in 2022, concerning Colorado's current supply of qualified early childhood educators.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/19/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/06/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (06/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (06/09/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/11/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/10/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (07/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 44–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• James Wilson — primary (person)
• Tammy Story — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-08T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2087711-4dd6-4140-8db0-a5cb215c3a6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).