republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2026a/hb-1312.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace Officers Standards & Training Board Changes"
description: "The act requires the attorney general to submit to the peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T. board) a proposal by December 31, 2030, to update current basic, reserve, and refresher law enforcement training academy programs and improve the peace officer performance of future academy graduates. The act changes the makeup of the P.O.S.T. board by reducing the number of law enforcement head officials, reducing the number of non-law-enforcement persons, increasing the number of line officers, and adding representatives from law enforcement training academies and reserve officers. A person who has had their P.O.S.T. certification revoked is not eligible to serve on the P.O.S.T. board. The P.O.S.T. board is prohibited from approving skill instructors whose P.O.S.T. certification has been revoked for training academies and from approving training academies with an instructor whose P.O.S.T. certification has been revoked after September 1, 2026. The act requires that a person be at least 21 years old in order to be a certified peace officer. The act makes a peace officer academy full-time instructor eligible to attend P.O.S.T. certification classes funded with grant money, but the instructor is not eligible to receive individual grant funding from the P.O.S.T. board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2026A"
identifier: "HB 1312"
citation: "Colorado HB 1312 (2026A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Corrections", "& Enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Clifford", "K. Mullica"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 15
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2026-03-02"
last_action: "2026-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe86fe2d-8afa-4afe-86cb-76393209508e"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1312"
source_hash: "0edb037760609c7ffc0cc7d419d07d7d92a6a70db8b8dd7d7c925a548b4dbe08"
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 1312 (2026A) — Peace Officers Standards & Training Board Changes

The act requires the attorney general to submit to the peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T. board) a proposal by December 31, 2030, to update current basic, reserve, and refresher law enforcement training academy programs and improve the peace officer performance of future academy graduates. The act changes the makeup of the P.O.S.T. board by reducing the number of law enforcement head officials, reducing the number of non-law-enforcement persons, increasing the number of line officers, and adding representatives from law enforcement training academies and reserve officers. A person who has had their P.O.S.T. certification revoked is not eligible to serve on the P.O.S.T. board. The P.O.S.T. board is prohibited from approving skill instructors whose P.O.S.T. certification has been revoked for training academies and from approving training academies with an instructor whose P.O.S.T. certification has been revoked after September 1, 2026. The act requires that a person be at least 21 years old in order to be a certified peace officer. The act makes a peace officer academy full-time instructor eligible to attend P.O.S.T. certification classes funded with grant money, but the instructor is not eligible to receive individual grant funding from the P.O.S.T. board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112773/download)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114761/download)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/116878/download)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115026/download)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115570/download)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115522/download)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/117070/download)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 26-1312, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Refer House Bill 26-1312, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment R). — **fail** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment O). — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.010 (Attachment D) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.007 (Attachment P). — **pass** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment Q). — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment N). — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Clifford — primary (person)
- K. Mullica — primary (person)
- A. Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-06-03** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-02** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-05-04** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2026-05-01** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-30** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2026-04-27** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-23** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2026-04-21** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-17** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2026-04-16** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2026-04-07** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2026-04-01** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** 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/fe86fe2d-8afa-4afe-86cb-76393209508e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).