republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1147.md

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Bill	Simplify Architects Continuing Education Requirement	The practice act for professional architects directs the department of regulatory agencies to adopt rules establishing requirements for continuing education and also requiring an architect to demonstrate retention of the material presented in the continuing education program or course.The act removes the material retention requirement, allowing an architect to renew a license upon demonstrating compliance with the continuing education requirement alone.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1147	Colorado HB 21-1147 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Chris Hansen Cleave Simpson Donald Valdez Kevin Van Winkle	8	12	2	2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5e3ced62-4c31-4631-b0b7-96c8889d0250	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1147	15134643ad8e2ffb7f227f82584e7a2de395f5c8271dd33fb227b5e0a8f023e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1147 (2021A) — Simplify Architects Continuing Education Requirement

The practice act for professional architects directs the department of regulatory agencies to adopt rules establishing requirements for continuing education and also requiring an architect to demonstrate retention of the material presented in the continuing education program or course.The act removes the material retention requirement, allowing an architect to renew a license upon demonstrating compliance with the continuing education requirement alone.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
• Donald Valdez — primary (person)
• Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e3ced62-4c31-4631-b0b7-96c8889d0250. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).