---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Professionals Practice Requirements"
description: "The act removes the requirement that a mental health professional provide each client with an explanation of the levels of regulation and the differences between licensure, registration, and certification of mental health professionals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-115"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-115 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Emily Sirota", "Jim Smallwood", "Mary Young"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-05T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04768668-5380-43f2-abd9-f037161b603b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-115"
source_hash: "cf037acfd54324da00f49ac9f2fb45bf176cd86a653bf735d4ec3e1c48221e7c"
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 24-115 (2024A) — Mental Health Professionals Practice Requirements

The act removes the requirement that a mental health professional provide each client with an explanation of the levels of regulation and the differences between licensure, registration, and certification of mental health professionals.

## 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_sb115_h_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_s_hhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_h_hhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rn2.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_115_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **44–17** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **29–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Mary Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 03/04/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-05T07:00:00+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/04768668-5380-43f2-abd9-f037161b603b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).