republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-079.md

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Bill	Dementia Training Requirements Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Rules	The act requires the state board of health in the department of public health and environment, with regard to nursing care facilities and assisted living residences, and the medical services board in the department of health care policy and financing, with regard to adult day care facilities, to adopt rules requiring these facilities to provide dementia training for staff providing direct-care services to clients and residents of the facilities.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-079	Colorado SB 22-079 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Chris Kolker Joann Ginal Mary Young	9	17	2	2022-01-19T07:00:00+00:00	2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4595210b-ffb7-46ea-8d1e-bc1d345ad665	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-079	a8ffa023698d54df5c78c2ff18a1bfd4db93a0877e2dc8df7af8792c6f3515d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 22-079 (2022A) — Dementia Training Requirements Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Rules

The act requires the state board of health in the department of public health and environment, with regard to nursing care facilities and assisted living residences, and the medical services board in the department of health care policy and financing, with regard to adult day care facilities, to adopt rules requiring these facilities to provide dementia training for staff providing direct-care services to clients and residents of the facilities.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/06/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/19/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/24/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/26/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/22/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/31/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 18–15 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Chris Kolker — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Mary Young — 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
• 2022-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction
• 2022-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2022-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2022-02-17T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 02/22/2022 - No Amendments
• 2022-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4595210b-ffb7-46ea-8d1e-bc1d345ad665. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).