---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth And Family Behavioral Health Care"
description: "The act implements the recommendations of the behavioral health transformational task force concerning youth and family residential care. Specifically, the act:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "HB 22-1283"
citation: "Colorado HB 22-1283 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Janet Buckner", "Kevin Priola", "Mary Bradfield"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-03-07T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5315ed93-c109-4821-b556-d02bde6c0b01"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1283"
source_hash: "fae3ea667efc71fc5658edbd761a5b3cfe2cf554443f2f0c7dba4c0734b856c9"
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 22-1283 (2022A) — Youth And Family Behavioral Health Care

The act implements the recommendations of the behavioral health transformational task force concerning youth and family residential care. Specifically, the act:

## 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/2022a_hb1283_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/07/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_h_pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/19/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_h_pbh_app_01.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_s_app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (04/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/06/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_1283_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (05/18/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_1283_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMD — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- PERM — **57–6** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **51–12** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **50–15** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **48–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)
- Mary Bradfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2022-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07T07:00:00+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/5315ed93-c109-4821-b556-d02bde6c0b01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).