---
type: "Bill"
title: "Whistleblower Protection Health & Safety"
description: "Current law provides whistleblower protections for workers who raise a reasonable concern about health or safety related to a public health emergency. The act expands the protection to all health and safety concerns regardless of whether there is a declared public health emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-097"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-097 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brittany Pettersen", "Leslie Herod", "Robert Rodriguez", "Tom Sullivan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-01T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70469f70-f2f0-4638-9591-0f1e663d9fa0"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-097"
source_hash: "0ab07782ff3fa1897d658d0cf99531d54d932f63147594ee991cc3b899a5e4a1"
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 SB 22-097 (2022A) — Whistleblower Protection Health & Safety

Current law provides whistleblower protections for workers who raise a reasonable concern about health or safety related to a public health emergency. The act expands the protection to all health and safety concerns regardless of whether there is a declared public health emergency.

## 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_sb097_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/01/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_s_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_097_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/31/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_097_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–13** (pass) · upper

## 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.

- **2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2022-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70469f70-f2f0-4638-9591-0f1e663d9fa0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).