---
type: "Bill"
title: "Auricular Acudetox Professional Practice"
description: "In 2020, the general assembly repealed the requirement in the mental health practice act that a professional must be licensed, registered, or certified as a mental health professional in order to practice auricular acudetox. The act makes a conforming amendment to clarify that it is not an unlawful act for a professional who is trained to perform auricular acudetox to perform the practice without a license, registration, or certification as a mental health professional.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1146"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1146 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andres Pico", "Donald Valdez", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Rob Woodward"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8218620e-a46e-4487-bdde-173b39100ac2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1146"
source_hash: "fbfecae52b0b8fffb5b43ee6515b92f6ab922da47835e5faa6d604d3fa2c77e5"
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 21-1146 (2021A) — Auricular Acudetox Professional Practice

In 2020, the general assembly repealed the requirement in the mental health practice act that a professional must be licensed, registered, or certified as a mental health professional in order to practice auricular acudetox. The act makes a conforming amendment to clarify that it is not an unlawful act for a professional who is trained to perform auricular acudetox to perform the practice without a license, registration, or certification as a mental health professional.(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_hb1146_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (03/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1146_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1146_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andres Pico — primary (person)
- Donald Valdez — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Rob Woodward — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T07:00:00+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/8218620e-a46e-4487-bdde-173b39100ac2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).