---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensing of Behavioral Health Facilities"
description: "The act allows psychiatric inpatient health-care facilities to operate under a main hospital's license if certain conditions are met. The act requires that the main hospital in which the psychiatric inpatient health-care facility is licensed under demonstrates that the necessary conditions are met in its application for licensing.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2026A"
identifier: "HB 1305"
citation: "Colorado HB 1305 (2026A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care & Health Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Roberts", "M. Lukens"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-27"
last_action: "2026-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/773bd334-4f7d-471f-a112-8f3d45e8d253"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1305"
source_hash: "0c014d6a6a9e340078ace8ca4948442031c24aad8b3029bf5eb21b410095cdd9"
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 1305 (2026A) — Licensing of Behavioral Health Facilities

The act allows psychiatric inpatient health-care facilities to operate under a main hospital's license if certain conditions are met. The act requires that the main hospital in which the psychiatric inpatient health-care facility is licensed under demonstrates that the necessary conditions are met in its application for licensing.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112698/download)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113534/download)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115181/download)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113600/download)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114555/download)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114497/download)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115770/download)

## Votes

- Refer House Bill 26-1305 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Refer House Bill 26-1305 to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Roberts — primary (person)
- M. Lukens — primary (person)
- A. Benavidez — cosponsor (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- B. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Amabile — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. McCluskie — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- K. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
- L. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Ricks — cosponsor (person)
- R. English — cosponsor (person)
- R. Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
- S. Lieder — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-04** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-04-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-04-17** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2026-04-15** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2026-04-14** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-13** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2026-04-09** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-25** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2026-03-23** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-20** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2026-03-17** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-27** 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/773bd334-4f7d-471f-a112-8f3d45e8d253`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).