---
type: "Bill"
title: "Whistleblower Protection Public Health Emergencies"
description: "The act prohibits a principal, which includes an employer, certain labor contractors, public employers, and entities that contract with 5 or more independent contractors, from discriminating, retaliating, or taking adverse action against any worker who:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1415"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1415 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brittany Pettersen", "Leslie Herod", "Robert Rodriguez", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3032af6a-5a40-4e4c-9809-f63ff6deb1c8"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1415"
source_hash: "421008c61bf2c28d850e9b0625d401c667e5797359ad1ae8752a60bbc1326c04"
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 20-1415 (2020A) — Whistleblower Protection Public Health Emergencies

The act prohibits a principal, which includes an employer, certain labor contractors, public employers, and entities that contract with 5 or more independent contractors, from discriminating, retaliating, or taking adverse action against any worker who:

## 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/2020a_hb1415_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (06/04/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415fin_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (06/10/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415sfin_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (06/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (06/13/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (06/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1415_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (07/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1415_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **49–14** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **38–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **39–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Tom Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-11T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-06-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2020-06-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3032af6a-5a40-4e4c-9809-f63ff6deb1c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).