republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/hb-22-1279.md

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Bill	Reproductive Health Equity Act	The act declares that every individual has a fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; every pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2022A	HB 22-1279	Colorado HB 22-1279 (2022A)	bill		enacted	Daneya Esgar Julie Gonzales Meg Froelich	8	12	18	2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c1c2ff75-834c-4288-b357-53a5bc2af95d	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1279	f5ab9f66e106b3ae8dda99399292be314b578bf20e25960f776d68d998e2f049	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 22-1279 (2022A) — Reproductive Health Equity Act

The act declares that every individual has a fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; every pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/12/2022) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/29/2022) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2022) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/14/2022) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/23/2022) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/22/2022) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/04/2022) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 24–34 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–37 (fail) · lower
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper
• PERM — 22–40 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 22–35 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–38 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–38 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–38 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 22–35 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 24–33 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 20–37 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper
• AMD — 24–34 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 20–37 (fail) · lower
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2022-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2022-03-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2022-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2022-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Insurance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Insurance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1c2ff75-834c-4288-b357-53a5bc2af95d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).