republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1128.md

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Bill	Educator Education Requirements Special Education	For renewal of an educator license, the act requires teachers, special services providers, principals, and administrators to complete 10 clock hours of the professional development required during the term of the license relating to increasing awareness of laws and practices relating to the education of students with disabilities in the classroom, including educating students with behavioral concerns or behavioral disabilities. The laws and practices include but are not limited to child find and inclusive learning environments. A licensee who has less than 3 years left in the license renewal period on June 30, 2020, has until the end of the next license renewal period to complete the professional development content requirement and may use classes and activities completed during a 5-year look-back period to comply with the content requirement. Nothing in the act prevents the licensee from applying a single professional development course to one or more content or hour requirements established in law.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1128	Colorado HB 20-1128 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Bri Buentello James Wilson Kevin Priola Rachel Zenzinger	10	16	4	2020-01-15T07:00:00+00:00	2020-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3c110ba9-104e-4770-8b54-24f3d7103eeb	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1128	0146c05523ee7aac20ed0864f95894da927914245076085995a5298ec27dad30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1128 (2020A) — Educator Education Requirements Special Education

For renewal of an educator license, the act requires teachers, special services providers, principals, and administrators to complete 10 clock hours of the professional development required during the term of the license relating to increasing awareness of laws and practices relating to the education of students with disabilities in the classroom, including educating students with behavioral concerns or behavioral disabilities. The laws and practices include but are not limited to child find and inclusive learning environments. A licensee who has less than 3 years left in the license renewal period on June 30, 2020, has until the end of the next license renewal period to complete the professional development content requirement and may use classes and activities completed during a 5-year look-back period to comply with the content requirement. Nothing in the act prevents the licensee from applying a single professional development course to one or more content or hour requirements established in law.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/20/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/17/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/15/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/06/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/12/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/21/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (03/14/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (03/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (03/24/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 51–9 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–5 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 52–4 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 46–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bri Buentello — primary (person)
• James Wilson — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2020-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended 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
• 2020-01-15T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c110ba9-104e-4770-8b54-24f3d7103eeb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).