---
type: "Bill"
title: "Secondary School Student Substance Use"
description: "The act creates the secondary school student substance use committee (committee) in the department of education (department) to develop a practice, or identify or modify an existing practice, for secondary schools to implement that identifies students who need substance use treatment, offers a brief intervention, and refers the students to substance use treatment resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2023A"
identifier: "HB 23-1009"
citation: "Colorado HB 23-1009 (2023A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Mandy Lindsay"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01fdf2a2-92da-4f17-9e8b-2a626e877204"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1009"
source_hash: "c392e314e48e145b14cfc7220d26865f415336b98e398b4f854f23a7fe72997f"
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 23-1009 (2023A) — Secondary School Student Substance Use

The act creates the secondary school student substance use committee (committee) in the department of education (department) to develop a practice, or identify or modify an existing practice, for secondary schools to implement that identifies students who need substance use treatment, offers a brief intervention, and refers the students to substance use treatment resources.

## 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/2023a_hb1009_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/26/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/09/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/27/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_h_ed_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (03/11/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_h_ed_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (03/15/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (04/14/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_rr2.pdf)
9. **Revised (04/13/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023A/bills/2023a_1009_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (04/26/2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2023a_1009_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **22–10** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **45–19** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **47–17** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **46–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2023-03-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01fdf2a2-92da-4f17-9e8b-2a626e877204`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).