republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-035.md

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Bill	Coverage Levels For Occupational Accident Insurance	Under current law, common carriers and contract carriers may use independent contractors for transportation services. The contract must provide for coverage under either workers' compensation or an occupational accident insurance policy that provides "similar coverage" to that available under workers' compensation. "Similar coverage" must meet or exceed standards set by the division of insurance and is defined to require benefits that are at least comparable to the benefits offered under the workers' compensation system.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-035	Colorado SB 22-035 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Jim Smallwood Kevin Van Winkle Robert Rodriguez Shannon Bird	9	12	2	2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00	2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/318fcad2-83ff-4c83-9aba-d01bffcb2452	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-035	cf1739c75ca96358daa0a3de3cf884ff78d0a8264dca7575fe4b9f4498149ed6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-035 (2022A) — Coverage Levels For Occupational Accident Insurance

Under current law, common carriers and contract carriers may use independent contractors for transportation services. The contract must provide for coverage under either workers' compensation or an occupational accident insurance policy that provides "similar coverage" to that available under workers' compensation. "Similar coverage" must meet or exceed standards set by the division of insurance and is defined to require benefits that are at least comparable to the benefits offered under the workers' compensation system.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/19/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/06/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/14/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/20/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/17/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 54–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 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
• 2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-12T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/318fcad2-83ff-4c83-9aba-d01bffcb2452. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).