republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-146.md

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Bill	Freestanding Emergency Departments Required Consumer Notices	The bill requires a freestanding emergency department (FSED), whether operated by a hospital at a separate, off-campus location or operating independently of a hospital system, to provide any individual that enters the FSED seeking treatment a written statement of patient information, which an FSED staff member or health care provider must explain orally and which must indicate that:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-146	Colorado SB 18-146 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Jim Smallwood John Kefalas Jonathan Singer Lang Sias	11	18	4	2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00	2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c4e8af44-bb50-4009-a43c-8130cd40182b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-146	5493cfb57c9d9a403b85082f32ee69592762bafa073a5d0816d6cdc593eefe0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-146 (2018A) — Freestanding Emergency Departments Required Consumer Notices

The bill requires a freestanding emergency department (FSED), whether operated by a hospital at a separate, off-campus location or operating independently of a hospital system, to provide any individual that enters the FSED seeking treatment a written statement of patient information, which an FSED staff member or health care provider must explain orally and which must indicate that:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/01/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/18/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/29/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/27/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (03/16/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/09/2018) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (04/25/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 51–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• John Kefalas — primary (person)
• Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
• Lang Sias — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2018-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2018-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2018-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4e8af44-bb50-4009-a43c-8130cd40182b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).