republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1104.md

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Bill	Professional Educator Licensure Renewal Period	The act extends the renewal period for professional teacher, special services educator, principal, and administrator licenses from 5 to 7 years. The act allows for a professional teacher, special services educator, principal, or administrator who is partially through the current 5-year licensing cycle to have that extended to 7 years for that particular cycle.The act makes the following appropriations through adjustments to the long bill:The cash funds appropriation from the educator licensure cash fund made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2021-22 state fiscal year to the department of education for the office of professional services is decreased by $292,532, and the related FTE is decreased by 4.0 FTE.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1104	Colorado HB 21-1104 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Colin Larson Paul Lundeen Rachel Zenzinger	10	15	2	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/77bcbc4b-3bb7-4aff-bcd2-d85a81fc0c6e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1104	c94fef69a0b8414ad4ec7e122b3d7e640fa818382388fc48d5767132012e2b94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1104 (2021A) — Professional Educator Licensure Renewal Period

The act extends the renewal period for professional teacher, special services educator, principal, and administrator licenses from 5 to 7 years. The act allows for a professional teacher, special services educator, principal, or administrator who is partially through the current 5-year licensing cycle to have that extended to 7 years for that particular cycle.The act makes the following appropriations through adjustments to the long bill:The cash funds appropriation from the educator licensure cash fund made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2021-22 state fiscal year to the department of education for the office of professional services is decreased by $292,532, and the related FTE is decreased by 4.0 FTE.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 55–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Colin Larson — primary (person)
• Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77bcbc4b-3bb7-4aff-bcd2-d85a81fc0c6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).