---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting Term Excited Delirium"
description: "The act prohibits training for law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service providers, or other first responders from including the term \"excited delirium\"; except that in an emergency medical service provider training the term may be used in teaching the history of the term. A peace officer is prohibited from using the term \"excited delirium\" to describe a person in an incident report. A coroner or other person authorized to determine a cause of death shall not register \"excited delirium\" as the cause of death on a death certificate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1103"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1103 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janet Buckner", "Judy Amabile", "Julie Gonzales", "Leslie Herod"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c40212bf-698c-4724-80e0-98fcab64d13b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1103"
source_hash: "f3b48edfbee65fb082b0a743cfc8bc84ccd8379a8c007411ea35e66bcb1b15f2"
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 24-1103 (2024A) — Prohibiting Term Excited Delirium

The act prohibits training for law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service providers, or other first responders from including the term "excited delirium"; except that in an emergency medical service provider training the term may be used in teaching the history of the term. A peace officer is prohibited from using the term "excited delirium" to describe a person in an incident report. A coroner or other person authorized to determine a cause of death shall not register "excited delirium" as the cause of death on a death certificate.

## 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_hb1103_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_h_jud_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (03/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (03/15/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1103_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1103_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **42–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-03-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2024-02-13T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-02-09T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c40212bf-698c-4724-80e0-98fcab64d13b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).