republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-097.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	SB 22-097	Colorado SB 22-097 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Brittany Pettersen Leslie Herod Robert Rodriguez Tom Sullivan	9	15	2	2022-02-01T07:00:00+00:00	2022-05-31T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/70469f70-f2f0-4638-9591-0f1e663d9fa0	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-097	0ab07782ff3fa1897d658d0cf99531d54d932f63147594ee991cc3b899a5e4a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Engrossed (03/28/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/06/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/01/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/18/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/02/2022) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/31/2022) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/70469f70-f2f0-4638-9591-0f1e663d9fa0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).