republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1229.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Senate Bill 21-271 Clean-up"
description: "During the 2021 session, the general assembly created a civil infraction as penalty for violations of the law that do not rise to criminal conduct and included procedures for civil infractions. The act repeals those provisions and replaces them with new procedures for handling civil infractions. The act makes conforming amendments related to civil infractions. The act makes clean-up changes to other provisions to conform to changes made to criminal sentencing provisions during the 2021 session."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1229"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1229 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Julie Gonzales", "Matt Soper", "Mike Weissman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfe151b2-4410-46f8-a82c-6a5992b2267c"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1229"
source_hash: "cf5f13b65e2e7dc609717661a4224780741ef8968724842dc6106d31737b3a40"
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 22-1229 (2022A) — Senate Bill 21-271 Clean-up

During the 2021 session, the general assembly created a civil infraction as penalty for violations of the law that do not rise to criminal conduct and included procedures for civil infractions. The act repeals those provisions and replaces them with new procedures for handling civil infractions. The act makes conforming amendments related to civil infractions. The act makes clean-up changes to other provisions to conform to changes made to criminal sentencing provisions during the 2021 session.

## 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_hb1229_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_s_jud_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (03/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1229_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1229_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–20** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **43–18** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **48–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Matt Soper — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2022-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11T07:00:00+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/cfe151b2-4410-46f8-a82c-6a5992b2267c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).