---
type: "Bill"
title: "Secure Fence Around Youth Psychiatric Facility"
description: "The act permits a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility to use a secure perimeter fence around the facility. The act clarifies that placement of a juvenile in a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility is not considered detention and placement in a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility is not considered restraint. The state board of health is required to adopt rules for admission to the facility in compliance with other applicable regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2025A"
identifier: "HB 25-1172"
citation: "Colorado HB 25-1172 (2025A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cecelia Espenoza", "Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Judy Amabile", "Sean Camacho"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f305204-f629-42fe-85a4-858b6a18cd8b"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1172"
source_hash: "00ecfbac61ad463d2907c954d079f4fcf622728830ed5390f33b1c519f1876cc"
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 25-1172 (2025A) — Secure Fence Around Youth Psychiatric Facility

The act permits a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility to use a secure perimeter fence around the facility. The act clarifies that placement of a juvenile in a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility is not considered detention and placement in a state-owned psychiatric residential treatment facility is not considered restraint. The state board of health is required to adopt rules for admission to the facility in compliance with other applicable regulations.

## 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/2025a_hb1172_s_jud_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/27/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/24/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/06/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/28/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/04/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/03/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_1172_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/30/2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2025a_1172_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **38–22** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cecelia Espenoza — primary (person)
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Judy Amabile — primary (person)
- Sean Camacho — primary (person)
- L. Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2025-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2025-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2025-02-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2025-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** 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/2f305204-f629-42fe-85a4-858b6a18cd8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).