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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health Professionals Practice Requirements"
+description: "The act removes the requirement that a mental health professional provide each client with an explanation of the levels of regulation and the differences between licensure, registration, and certification of mental health professionals."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2024A"
+identifier: "SB 24-115"
+citation: "Colorado SB 24-115 (2024A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Emily Sirota", "Jim Smallwood", "Mary Young"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04768668-5380-43f2-abd9-f037161b603b"
+source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-115"
+source_hash: "cf037acfd54324da00f49ac9f2fb45bf176cd86a653bf735d4ec3e1c48221e7c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
+---
+
+# Colorado SB 24-115 (2024A) — Mental Health Professionals Practice Requirements
+
+The act removes the requirement that a mental health professional provide each client with an explanation of the levels of regulation and the differences between licensure, registration, and certification of mental health professionals.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_sb115_h_hhs_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (02/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (02/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_01.pdf)
+5. **PA1 (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_s_hhs_01.pdf)
+6. **PA2 (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_h_hhs_01.pdf)
+7. **Reengrossed (03/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rn2.pdf)
+8. **Rerevised (04/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rer.pdf)
+9. **Revised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rev.pdf)
+10. **Signed Act (05/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **44–17** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **29–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
+- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
+- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
+- Mary Young — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
+- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
+- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
+- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 03/04/2024 - No Amendments
+- **2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04768668-5380-43f2-abd9-f037161b603b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+