---
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).