---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sunset Mental Health Professionals"
description: "The act implements recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report on the regulation of mental health professionals as follows:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "HB 20-1206"
citation: "Colorado HB 20-1206 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Faith Winter", "Jack Tate", "Lois Landgraf"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e16f0ec-9e8e-47d7-b963-7472b0b1c860"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1206"
source_hash: "39241094178db5459a8c77b5c5844f9cce0b0d1533708822150bbed6a23ae024"
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 HB 20-1206 (2020A) — Sunset Mental Health Professionals

The act implements recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report on the regulation of mental health professionals as follows:

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_hb1206_s_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/26/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (07/02/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/30/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/25/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206pub_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/27/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/06/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_1206_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (07/14/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_1206_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- PERM — **52–9** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **50–11** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **47–14** (pass) · lower
- AMD — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **51–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Jack Tate — primary (person)
- Lois Landgraf — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-14T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to `introduction`
- **2020-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
- **2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
- **2020-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e16f0ec-9e8e-47d7-b963-7472b0b1c860`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).