§ 12-255-122 — Inactive license status - reactivation

Colorado § 12-255-122

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 12: Professions
• Art.: Nurses and Nurse Aides

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(1) A nurse or certified
midwife licensed pursuant to section 12-255-110, 12-255-111.5, or 12-255-114 may
request that the board place the nurse's or certified midwife's license on inactive
status. The request shall be made in the form and manner designated by the board.

(2) A nurse or certified midwife requesting inactive license status shall
provide an affidavit or other document required by the board certifying that,
immediately upon the conferral of inactive status, the nurse will not practice
nursing, or the certified midwife will not practice as a certified midwife, in the state
unless the nurse's or certified midwife's license is reactivated pursuant to
subsection (6) of this section.

(3) Upon receiving the documentation pursuant to subsection (2) of this
section, the board shall approve a request for inactive license status. However, the
board may deny the request if the board has probable cause to believe that the
requesting nurse or certified midwife has committed any of the acts set forth in
section 12-255-120.

(4) A license on inactive status shall constitute a single state license issued
by Colorado and without multistate licensure privilege pursuant to part 38 of article
60 of title 24.

(5) A nurse or certified midwife with a license on inactive status is not
authorized to practice nursing or as a certified midwife, as applicable, in Colorado.
Any nurse practicing nursing while the nurse's license is inactive, and any certified
midwife practicing as a certified midwife while the certified midwife's license is
inactive, is subject to disciplinary action pursuant to section 12-255-119 and
criminal penalties pursuant to section 12-255-125.

(6) (a) A nurse or certified midwife with a license on inactive status who
wishes to resume the practice of nursing or as a certified midwife, as applicable,
shall file an application in the form and manner designated by the board and pay
the license reactivation fees established pursuant to section 12-255-107. The board
shall reactivate such license unless subsection (6)(b) of this section applies.

(b) The board shall deny an application for reactivation of an inactive license:

(I) Pursuant to section 12-255-121; or

(II) If the board determines that the nurse or certified midwife requesting
reactivation has not actively practiced nursing or as a certified midwife in another
state for the two-year period immediately preceding the filing of the request for
reactivation or has not otherwise demonstrated continued competency to return to
the active practice of nursing or as a certified midwife in a manner approved by the
board.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1351, � 1, effective October 1. L. 2023: (1) to (3), (5), (6)(a), and (6)(b)(II) amended, (SB 23-167), ch. 261, p. 1525, � 13, effective May 25.