---
type: "Bill"
title: "Suicide Prevention, Intervention, & Postvention"
description: "The act broadens the state's priorities and focus on suicide and suicide attempts and the after-effects of those actions on attempt survivors, family, friends, health-care providers, first and last responders, educators, and students in schools where a suicide or suicide attempt has occurred.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1119"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1119 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Janice Rich", "Kerry Donovan", "Lindsey Daugherty"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509c0d37-ed20-4bbc-98cc-8ac10972edea"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1119"
source_hash: "5571502473530187b088155fcc1b17add5cc1a59d7c4d86f35d2165dfd139601"
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 21-1119 (2021A) — Suicide Prevention, Intervention, & Postvention

The act broadens the state's priorities and focus on suicide and suicide attempts and the after-effects of those actions on attempt survivors, family, friends, health-care providers, first and last responders, educators, and students in schools where a suicide or suicide attempt has occurred.(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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1119_s_sa_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/20/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119pbh_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/09/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1119_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1119_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **57–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Janice Rich — primary (person)
- Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
- Lindsey Daugherty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`
- **2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral 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/509c0d37-ed20-4bbc-98cc-8ac10972edea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).