---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing Safety In Assisted Living Residences"
description: "With regard to the involuntary discharge of residents from an assisted living residence (residence), the act:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-154"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-154 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Karen McCormick", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6658697-315c-4fff-858b-3f64bab31eac"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-154"
source_hash: "87efacc4e01746d37076fd32d87d21f26b741afb30c234a6fedbf095403c464c"
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 22-154 (2022A) — Increasing Safety In Assisted Living Residences

With regard to the involuntary discharge of residents from an assisted living residence (residence), the act:

## 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_sb154_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/21/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/25/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/14/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/05/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_h_pbh_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/22/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/11/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_154_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/02/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_154_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- PERM — **43–21** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **40–24** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **40–24** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Karen McCormick — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6658697-315c-4fff-858b-3f64bab31eac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).