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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Educator Education Requirements Special Education"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1128"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1128 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bri Buentello", "James Wilson", "Kevin Priola", "Rachel Zenzinger"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-15T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-24T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c110ba9-104e-4770-8b54-24f3d7103eeb"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1128"
source_hash: "0146c05523ee7aac20ed0864f95894da927914245076085995a5298ec27dad30"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_hb1128_s_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/20/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/17/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/15/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128edu_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128sedu_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (02/21/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1128_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/24/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1128_signed.pdf)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c110ba9-104e-4770-8b54-24f3d7103eeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).