---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substance Use Disorders Harm Reduction"
description: "The act excludes injuries involving the possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia from a physician's mandatory reporting requirements. The act also adds an exemption to the prohibition on possessing drug paraphernalia for possession of drug paraphernalia that a person received from an approved syringe exchange program or a program carried out by a harm reduction organization while the person was participating in the program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1037"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1037 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris deGruy Kennedy", "Elisabeth Epps", "Kevin Priola"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a080de9d-b3c6-49b3-97f7-c23f6e414baa"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1037"
source_hash: "df720aae8514f9825947f6b6f5cf9383ac3b4b78c87c79051122350ec444f823"
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 24-1037 (2024A) — Substance Use Disorders Harm Reduction

The act excludes injuries involving the possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia from a physician's mandatory reporting requirements. The act also adds an exemption to the prohibition on possessing drug paraphernalia for possession of drug paraphernalia that a person received from an approved syringe exchange program or a program carried out by a harm reduction organization while the person was participating in the program.

## 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/2024a_hb1037_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/21/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_h_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1037_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1037_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- NOT CNCR — **52–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **44–20** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT — **46–13** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **22–13** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **45–14** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CCR — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
- Elisabeth Epps — primary (person)
- Kevin Priola — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
- **2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
- **2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to 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/a080de9d-b3c6-49b3-97f7-c23f6e414baa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).