---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pathways To Behavioral Health Care"
description: "The act requires the state department of human services (state department) to contract with an independent third party to conduct a feasibility study to determine the feasibility of creating a system to support individuals with serious mental illness through a collaboration between Colorado's behavioral health and judicial systems."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1153"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1153 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byron Pelton", "Judy Amabile", "Robert Rodriguez", "Ryan Armagost"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-31T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9e47d78-15a1-435b-855e-2db7b09c868b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1153"
source_hash: "0368a214836db3904a72a5473ca4d98d82e61c792936d9ed86c9d523828a5763"
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 23-1153 (2023A) — Pathways To Behavioral Health Care

The act requires the state department of human services (state department) to contract with an independent third party to conduct a feasibility study to determine the feasibility of creating a system to support individuals with serious mental illness through a collaboration between Colorado's behavioral health and judicial systems.

## 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/2023a_hb1153_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/31/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_h_pbh_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/10/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_h_pbh_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/02/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/01/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1153_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/30/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1153_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **59–5** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **30–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Byron Pelton — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Ryan Armagost — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2023-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T07:00:00+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/a9e47d78-15a1-435b-855e-2db7b09c868b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).