---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural & Rural Behavioral Health Care"
description: "The act creates the agricultural and rural community behavioral health program (program) in the behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA is required to identify a specific BHA staff person to serve as a liaison between the BHA, the department of agriculture (department), behavioral health-care providers, rural community leaders, agricultural communities, and nonprofit organizations that serve agricultural communities. The program shall:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-055"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-055 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Hartsook", "Janice Marchman", "Meghan Lukens", "Perry Will"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c5cf067-8c96-406b-bcfb-786e91a65cd2"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-055"
source_hash: "4daf090df6cd06885d18277ba8bdf6713dca3cdb76cfde107627745c973d0d72"
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 SB 24-055 (2024A) — Agricultural & Rural Behavioral Health Care

The act creates the agricultural and rural community behavioral health program (program) in the behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA is required to identify a specific BHA staff person to serve as a liaison between the BHA, the department of agriculture (department), behavioral health-care providers, rural community leaders, agricultural communities, and nonprofit organizations that serve agricultural communities. The program shall:

## 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_sb055_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/13/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_s_hhs_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_055_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_055_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **59–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anthony Hartsook — primary (person)
- Janice Marchman — primary (person)
- Meghan Lukens — primary (person)
- Perry Will — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - 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/4c5cf067-8c96-406b-bcfb-786e91a65cd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).