republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1257.md

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Bill	2022 Criminal And Juvenile Justice Commission Recommendations	Under current law, it is a class 2 misdemeanor to practice the following professions without an active license, registration, or certification: Professional engineering, architecture, audiology, dentistry, direct-entry midwifery, medicine, physician assistant, anesthesiologist assistant, professional nursing, nursing home administration, optometry, pharmacy, pharmacy technician, and respiratory therapy. The act makes it a class 6 felony to practice any of these professions intentionally without a license, registration, or certification and fraudulently representing that the person has a license, certification, or registration.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1257	Colorado HB 22-1257 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Julie Gonzales Matt Soper Mike Weissman	11	17	4	2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00	2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/21f6b9f6-0dda-4493-915f-f14b98698c50	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1257	53ffb863db525d6c46569fe7f2ccd78096e218b6b99b2ac606479ebe252fe32e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1257 (2022A) — 2022 Criminal And Juvenile Justice Commission Recommendations

Under current law, it is a class 2 misdemeanor to practice the following professions without an active license, registration, or certification: Professional engineering, architecture, audiology, dentistry, direct-entry midwifery, medicine, physician assistant, anesthesiologist assistant, professional nursing, nursing home administration, optometry, pharmacy, pharmacy technician, and respiratory therapy. The act makes it a class 6 felony to practice any of these professions intentionally without a license, registration, or certification and fraudulently representing that the person has a license, certification, or registration.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/31/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/22/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/02/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (03/11/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (03/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (03/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (04/07/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 40–21 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 40–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–4 (pass) · upper

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
• 2022-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-31T06:00:00+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
• 2022-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21f6b9f6-0dda-4493-915f-f14b98698c50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).