republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2018a/sb-18-020.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Registered Psychotherapists Auricular Acudetox	Current law allows licensed mental health care professionals and level III certified addiction counselors who have documented that they have undergone auricular acudetox training to perform auricular acudetox. The bill allows registered psychotherapists who have documented that they have undergone the same training requirements to also perform auricular acudetox.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2018A	SB 18-020	Colorado SB 18-020 (2018A)	bill		enacted	Daneya Esgar Leroy Garcia	8	14	2	2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/17022495-5503-4a48-98b5-8698be3524b4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-020	072176d7e9d9bb089301b588b1be06339ed18cdd8abe80c36ad6e3e77ca30f59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 18-020 (2018A) — Registered Psychotherapists Auricular Acudetox

Current law allows licensed mental health care professionals and level III certified addiction counselors who have documented that they have undergone auricular acudetox training to perform auricular acudetox. The bill allows registered psychotherapists who have documented that they have undergone the same training requirements to also perform auricular acudetox.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (01/23/2018) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/12/2018) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2018) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (01/24/2018) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/06/2018) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/05/2018) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (03/22/2018) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Leroy Garcia — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/05/2018 - No Amendments
• 2018-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-26T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment introduction
• 2018-01-24T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-23T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2018-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17022495-5503-4a48-98b5-8698be3524b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).