republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1120.md

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Bill	Youth Mental Health Education And Suicide Prevention	Psychotherapy services - treatment of a minor without parental consent - mental health education resource bank - appropriation. The act allows a minor 12 years of age or older to seek and obtain psychotherapy services with or without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian if the mental health professional determines the minor is knowingly and voluntarily seeking the psychotherapy services and the psychotherapy services are clinically necessary. A mental health professional providing psychotherapy services to a minor may, with the consent of the minor, advise the minor's parent or legal guardian of the psychotherapy services provided, unless notifying the parent or legal guardian would be inappropriate or detrimental to the minor's care and treatment. However, the mental health professional is permitted to notify the minor's parent or legal guardian without the minor's consent if, in the opinion of the mental health professional, the minor is unable to manage his or her care or treatment.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1120	Colorado HB 19-1120 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Dylan Roberts Stephen Fenberg	11	21	11	2019-01-16T07:00:00+00:00	2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8bbcfee2-c827-4df4-8b52-7fbcf470b10c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1120	aacb9f74db87527a66513bc70b90415323e56b6a8959978d8f19965fddb5ed67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1120 (2019A) — Youth Mental Health Education And Suicide Prevention

Psychotherapy services - treatment of a minor without parental consent - mental health education resource bank - appropriation. The act allows a minor 12 years of age or older to seek and obtain psychotherapy services with or without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian if the mental health professional determines the minor is knowingly and voluntarily seeking the psychotherapy services and the psychotherapy services are clinically necessary. A mental health professional providing psychotherapy services to a minor may, with the consent of the minor, advise the minor's parent or legal guardian of the psychotherapy services provided, unless notifying the parent or legal guardian would be inappropriate or detrimental to the minor's care and treatment. However, the mental health professional is permitted to notify the minor's parent or legal guardian without the minor's consent if, in the opinion of the mental health professional, the minor is unable to manage his or her care or treatment.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/13/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/06/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/23/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/02/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (05/16/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–14 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 25–38 (fail) · lower
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 23–40 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 29–34 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 26–37 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 23–40 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 26–37 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2019-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2019-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2019-01-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services + Appropriations introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8bbcfee2-c827-4df4-8b52-7fbcf470b10c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).