---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Access to School-Based Health Care"
description: "For purposes of the school-based health center grant program (grant program), the act expands the definition of a school-based health center and the purposes of the grant program to authorize grants for evidence-informed, school-linked health-care services. Services may include primary health-care, behavioral health-care, oral health-care, and preventive health-care services for students and youth (school-linked health-care services)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-034"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-034 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kolker", "Janice Marchman", "Lorena García", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bed17d8b-4ff2-40c6-ba38-fb12ab57c1ce"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-034"
source_hash: "739dbd0b9a0530c9d34b0b2099eaaeefc0ff2edd0bc926a3f68a3cf03a945d19"
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 24-034 (2024A) — Increase Access to School-Based Health Care

For purposes of the school-based health center grant program (grant program), the act expands the definition of a school-based health center and the purposes of the grant program to authorize grants for evidence-informed, school-linked health-care services. Services may include primary health-care, behavioral health-care, oral health-care, and preventive health-care services for students and youth (school-linked health-care services).

## 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_sb034_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/14/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/30/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_h_ed_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_034_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_034_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–17** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Kolker — primary (person)
- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Lorena García — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bed17d8b-4ff2-40c6-ba38-fb12ab57c1ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).