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type: "Bill"
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title: "Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative"
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description: "The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2022A"
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identifier: "SB 22-172"
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citation: "Colorado SB 22-172 (2022A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Dylan Roberts", "Faith Winter", "Janice Rich"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410"
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source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-172"
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source_hash: "da4c9468157a827dc393301900967ec563e77eb57d71a58b84101cc9c057589f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado SB 22-172 (2022A) — Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative
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The act establishes the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative (initiative) to expand the number of health-care professionals practicing in Colorado's rural or frontier counties. As part of the initiative, an institution of higher education (institution) is authorized to establish and operate a health-care professionals rural track within any health-care professional education program offered by the institution.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_sb172_h_sa_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (05/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (03/23/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_01.pdf)
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5. **PA1 (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_s_hhs_01.pdf)
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6. **PA2 (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
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7. **Reengrossed (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_ren.pdf)
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8. **Rerevised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_rer.pdf)
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9. **Revised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_172_rev.pdf)
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10. **Signed Act (06/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_172_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **55–10** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **31–3** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
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- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
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- Faith Winter — primary (person)
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- Janice Rich — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`
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- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
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- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
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- **2022-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18b5cc81-eb63-4c8f-8479-bc7d25cc5410`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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