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type: "Bill"
title: "Online Availability Of Judicial Opinions"
description: "The act requires the judicial department to publish opinions of the Colorado supreme court and the Colorado court of appeals online on or before March 1, 2024, but no earlier than July 1, 2023. The opinions must be published online in a searchable format and be available free of charge. Colorado supreme court and court of appeals opinions that are not published pursuant to state law or court rules are exempt from the online publishing requirement. The judicial department and the general assembly must each include a link to the opinions web page in a conspicuous place on their websites."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1091"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1091 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Jeff Bridges", "Matt Soper", "Mike Weissman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/008609be-51f6-47e2-9b83-293e7909ff19"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1091"
source_hash: "8e5ee1f44dd44412f19bca990fca3c423b7e9be2749aaed82b4565e6cc7ea532"
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 22-1091 (2022A) — Online Availability Of Judicial Opinions
The act requires the judicial department to publish opinions of the Colorado supreme court and the Colorado court of appeals online on or before March 1, 2024, but no earlier than July 1, 2023. The opinions must be published online in a searchable format and be available free of charge. Colorado supreme court and court of appeals opinions that are not published pursuant to state law or court rules are exempt from the online publishing requirement. The judicial department and the general assembly must each include a link to the opinions web page in a conspicuous place on their websites.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_hb1091_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1091_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1091_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/008609be-51f6-47e2-9b83-293e7909ff19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).