2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 12 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS (§§ 12-1-101 — 12-315-310) › HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS (§§ 12-170-101 — 12-315-310) › Article 255 - NURSES AND NURSE AIDES (§§ 12-255-101 — 12-255-215) › Part 1 - NURSES AND NURSE AIDES (§§ 12-255-101 — 12-255-136) › Section 12-255-122 - Inactive license status - reactivation

(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.
Amended by 2023 Ch. 261,§ 13, eff. 5/25/2023.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
12-38-118.5
and amended by 2019 Ch. 136, § 1, eff. 10/1/2019.
Amended by 2018 Ch. 1, § 5, eff. 1/18/2018.
L. 2008: Entire section added, p. 1759, § 1, effective August 5. L. 2018: (4) amended, (SB 18-027), ch. 1, p. 22, § 5, effective January 18.
This section is similar to former § 12-38-118.5 as it existed prior to 2019.