republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1090.md

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Bill	Reasonable Independence For Children	Under current law, a child is neglected or dependent if the child's environment is injurious to the child's health or welfare. The act clarifies that a child is not neglected when allowed to participate in certain independent activities that a reasonable and prudent parent, guardian, or legal custodian would consider safe given the child's maturity, condition, and abilities.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1090	Colorado HB 22-1090 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Janet Buckner Jim Smallwood Kim Ransom Mary Young	8	13	2	2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00	2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a9299dc1-db2d-4c4a-a7ab-7d3806f38464	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1090	baed22458059d6bcd7c1328c7ac9e7d83c2686f1b658a960c44b01d16d9f57ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1090 (2022A) — Reasonable Independence For Children

Under current law, a child is neglected or dependent if the child's environment is injurious to the child's health or welfare. The act clarifies that a child is not neglected when allowed to participate in certain independent activities that a reasonable and prudent parent, guardian, or legal custodian would consider safe given the child's maturity, condition, and abilities.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/17/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/20/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (02/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/15/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/14/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/30/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Kim Ransom — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2022-02-18T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-02-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9299dc1-db2d-4c4a-a7ab-7d3806f38464. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).