---
type: "Bill"
title: "Internal Election Security Measures"
description: "The act increases election security measures for the secretary of state's office, election officials, candidates for elective office, and voters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-153"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-153 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Priola", "Stephen Fenberg", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0e4f529-e96c-4f82-9976-8199f8b5da85"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-153"
source_hash: "3ab83663ad87af5ee33445a7e9f96eb868ac07ebbeff11f28cd02f14a9a363f1"
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 22-153 (2022A) — Internal Election Security Measures

The act increases election security measures for the secretary of state's office, election officials, candidates for elective office, and voters.

## 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_sb153_h_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/24/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_s_sa_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_s_sa_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (04/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_h_sa_01.pdf)
8. **PA4 (04/26/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_h_sa_app_01.pdf)
9. **Reengrossed (03/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_ren.pdf)
10. **Rerevised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_rer.pdf)
11. **Revised (05/04/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_153_rev.pdf)
12. **Signed Act (06/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_153_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **55–10** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **41–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **21–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs `introduction`
- **2022-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `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`
- **2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0e4f529-e96c-4f82-9976-8199f8b5da85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).