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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Require Surgical Smoke Protection Policies"
+description: "Hospitals - regulation of surgical smoke - prevention of human exposure. The act requires each hospital with surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and implement on or before May 1, 2021, a policy that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. Surgical smoke is a gaseous by-product produced by energy-generating surgical devices.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2019A"
+identifier: "HB 19-1041"
+citation: "Colorado HB 19-1041 (2019A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Janet Buckner", "Robert Rodriguez"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fa47bf4-95a7-43f6-8898-489da3dd2244"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1041"
+source_hash: "5869f42f0018abe5820e4b65d6017595bf8fc4bcba9e23ce2e534181a15de43e"
+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 19-1041 (2019A) — Require Surgical Smoke Protection Policies
+
+Hospitals - regulation of surgical smoke - prevention of human exposure. The act requires each hospital with surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and implement on or before May 1, 2021, a policy that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. Surgical smoke is a gaseous by-product produced by energy-generating surgical devices.(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. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1041_s_hhs_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (01/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (01/23/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041%20hi_01.pdf)
+6. **Reengrossed (01/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_ren.pdf)
+7. **Rerevised (03/14/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_rer.pdf)
+8. **Revised (03/13/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1041_rev.pdf)
+9. **Signed Act (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1041_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- BILL — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **53–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
+- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
+- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fa47bf4-95a7-43f6-8898-489da3dd2244`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+