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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospital Nurse Staffing Standards"
+description: "The act requires every hospital to establish, by September 1, 2022, a nurse staffing committee pursuant to rules promulgated by the state board of health, either by creating a new committee or assigning the nurse staffing functions to an existing hospital staffing committee. The nurse staffing committee must have at least 60% or greater participation by clinical staff nurses. The nurse staffing committee is required to:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2022A"
+identifier: "HB 22-1401"
+citation: "Colorado HB 22-1401 (2022A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Kyle Mullica"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffad76e5-c9f4-434f-94c8-f05cf9cf761b"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1401"
+source_hash: "c81bf3a02639b87a5574320c6b3fb8320005935e7cfaad160543a8af158144c1"
+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 22-1401 (2022A) — Hospital Nurse Staffing Standards
+
+The act requires every hospital to establish, by September 1, 2022, a nurse staffing committee pursuant to rules promulgated by the state board of health, either by creating a new committee or assigning the nurse staffing functions to an existing hospital staffing committee. The nurse staffing committee must have at least 60% or greater participation by clinical staff nurses. The nurse staffing committee is required to:
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_hb1401_s_app_002.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/17/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (04/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_h_hi_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_h_hi_app_01.pdf)
+7. **PA3 (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_s_fin_01.pdf)
+8. **Reengrossed (05/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_ren.pdf)
+9. **Rerevised (05/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_rer.pdf)
+10. **Revised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1401_rev.pdf)
+11. **Signed Act (05/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1401_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REFER — **24–40** (fail) · lower
+- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **37–27** (pass) · lower
+- LO — **24–40** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
+- Kyle Mullica — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
+- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
+- **2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
+- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+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/ffad76e5-c9f4-434f-94c8-f05cf9cf761b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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