republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1237.md

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Bill	Licensing Behavioral Health Entities	Behavioral health entities - single license - advisory committee timelines - appropriation. Currently, certain entities that provide behavioral health services must hold various licenses issued by the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) or the department of human services (DHS). The act combines the various licenses into a single license as a behavioral health entity (BHE) and authorizes the state board of health to promulgate rules for the new license.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2019A	HB 19-1237	Colorado HB 19-1237 (2019A)	bill		enacted	Joann Ginal Lisa Cutter Perry Will Rob Woodward	11	17	5	2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00	2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/64522ee0-03a3-4383-a52b-ccc2db47b288	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1237	8360ecf79a813dbfb37d28e77d40ebabb92a45124138eb629f571095434fbe97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 19-1237 (2019A) — Licensing Behavioral Health Entities

Behavioral health entities - single license - advisory committee timelines - appropriation. Currently, certain entities that provide behavioral health services must hold various licenses issued by the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) or the department of human services (DHS). The act combines the various licenses into a single license as a behavioral health entity (BHE) and authorizes the state board of health to promulgate rules for the new license.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2019) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/12/2019) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/29/2019) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/18/2019) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/19/2019) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (04/30/2019) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (04/27/2019) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/03/2019) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 48–16 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · lower
• END DEBATE — 21–14 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 50–13 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 51–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joann Ginal — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Rob Woodward — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2019-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2019-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2019-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2019-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2019-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2019-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2019-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64522ee0-03a3-4383-a52b-ccc2db47b288. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).