republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1398.md

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Bill	Insurance Companies' Registered Agents	Under current law, with certain exceptions, an insurance company that is formed by authority of any other state or government (foreign insurance company) may not transact business in Colorado until it has first appointed, in writing, the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to be the true and lawful attorney of the company in and for Colorado, upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against the company may be served with the same effect as if the company existed in Colorado. However, an insurance company that maintains a home office or regional home office in Colorado is not subject to this requirement but must instead file with the commissioner the name of a person designated to receive service of process.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1398	Colorado HB 22-1398 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kolker Larry Liston Richard Holtorf Shannon Bird	8	12	2	2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7154711a-225d-410d-9359-cff31a510a6c	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1398	d050a504bad9789191e91abf2ff4d78b7b4103487b4bfdb8e5ea16c8bad2c1ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1398 (2022A) — Insurance Companies' Registered Agents

Under current law, with certain exceptions, an insurance company that is formed by authority of any other state or government (foreign insurance company) may not transact business in Colorado until it has first appointed, in writing, the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to be the true and lawful attorney of the company in and for Colorado, upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against the company may be served with the same effect as if the company existed in Colorado. However, an insurance company that maintains a home office or regional home office in Colorado is not subject to this requirement but must instead file with the commissioner the name of a person designated to receive service of process.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/20/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/25/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/27/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 61–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kolker — primary (person)
• Larry Liston — primary (person)
• Richard Holtorf — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-05-20T06:00:00+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
• 2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7154711a-225d-410d-9359-cff31a510a6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).