republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/sb-20-026.md

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Bill	Workers' Compensation For Audible Psychological Trauma	For the purpose of determining eligibility for workers' compensation benefits for a mental impairment caused by an accidental injury that consists of a psychologically traumatic event arising out of and in the course of employment, the act establishes that a worker's audible or visual and audible exposure to the serious bodily injury or death, or the immediate aftermath of the serious bodily injury or death, of one or more people as the result of a violent event, the intentional act of another person, or an accident is a "psychologically traumatic event".	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	SB 20-026	Colorado SB 20-026 (2020A)	bill		enacted	John Cooke Jonathan Singer Rhonda Fields Thomas Exum	9	16	2	2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00	2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/27b6555f-8bb1-486c-870e-feb6c105da9c	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-026	3c9be71b5542df50b3226ae6b7ee24f6fea1fbf2ba713a20087aaaaa94ac30e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 20-026 (2020A) — Workers' Compensation For Audible Psychological Trauma

For the purpose of determining eligibility for workers' compensation benefits for a mental impairment caused by an accidental injury that consists of a psychologically traumatic event arising out of and in the course of employment, the act establishes that a worker's audible or visual and audible exposure to the serious bodily injury or death, or the immediate aftermath of the serious bodily injury or death, of one or more people as the result of a violent event, the intentional act of another person, or an accident is a "psychologically traumatic event".

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/08/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (01/30/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (02/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/03/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/01/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 30–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 48–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Jonathan Singer — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Thomas Exum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2020-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 06/01/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/30/2020 - No Amendments
• 2020-03-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2020-02-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-03T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2020-01-29T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27b6555f-8bb1-486c-870e-feb6c105da9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).