republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1224.md

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Bill	Public Benefits Theft	The act creates specific elements for public benefits theft in the theft statute. A person commits public benefits theft when a person intentionally misrepresents or withholds a material fact for determining eligibility, and does so for the purpose of obtaining or retaining public benefits for which the person is not eligible.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1224	Colorado HB 22-1224 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Kerry Tipper Matt Soper	9	13	2	2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00	2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dd9baa54-8423-4b89-8a8d-2f27b10505a5	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1224	77d6c98c579dbcaa95f7af1e4acf9acbedcd27c8d462969a6f2ad2205a7d6543	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1224 (2022A) — Public Benefits Theft

The act creates specific elements for public benefits theft in the theft statute. A person commits public benefits theft when a person intentionally misrepresents or withholds a material fact for determining eligibility, and does so for the purpose of obtaining or retaining public benefits for which the person is not eligible.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/15/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/10/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/11/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/16/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/05/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (04/21/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 57–6 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 31–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Kerry Tipper — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2022-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd9baa54-8423-4b89-8a8d-2f27b10505a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).