republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1041.md

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Bill	Require Surgical Smoke Protection Policies	Hospitals - regulation of surgical smoke - prevention of human exposure. The act requires each hospital with surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and implement on or before May 1, 2021, a policy that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. Surgical smoke is a gaseous by-product produced by energy-generating surgical devices.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1041	Colorado HB 19-1041 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Janet Buckner Robert Rodriguez	9	13	2	2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00	2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6fa47bf4-95a7-43f6-8898-489da3dd2244	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1041	5869f42f0018abe5820e4b65d6017595bf8fc4bcba9e23ce2e534181a15de43e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1041 (2019A) — Require Surgical Smoke Protection Policies

Hospitals - regulation of surgical smoke - prevention of human exposure. The act requires each hospital with surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and implement on or before May 1, 2021, a policy that prevents human exposure to surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation system during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. Surgical smoke is a gaseous by-product produced by energy-generating surgical devices.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/25/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/04/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (01/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/14/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/28/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 53–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet Buckner — primary (person)
• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2019-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fa47bf4-95a7-43f6-8898-489da3dd2244. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).