republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-004.md

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Bill	Employment Of School Mental Health Professionals	Under current law, a mental health professional must be licensed by the department of education (department) in order to work in a school. The act authorizes a school or school district, the state charter school institute, a board of cooperative services that operates a school, or the division of youth services to employ school-based therapists who are not licensed by the department but hold a Colorado license for their profession to work in coordination with licensed special service providers to coordinate mental health supports for students. Before being employed, the school-based therapists must satisfy certain requirements for nonlicensed school employees, including a fingerprint-based criminal background check. Any school-based therapists may be supervised by a mentor special services provider or a licensed administrator. If an eligible school-based therapist provides services to a student related to the student's individualized education program, the eligible school-based therapist must have qualifications consistent with the student's individualized education program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-004	Colorado SB 23-004 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Janice Marchman Mary Young Sonya Jaquez Lewis	10	14	4	2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bd965d4f-512c-44c0-b380-db90a4fae963	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-004	563cf84223072039efd4aebb6fcdf56ed784b7be769d96cd201589efbcf54b06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-004 (2023A) — Employment Of School Mental Health Professionals

Under current law, a mental health professional must be licensed by the department of education (department) in order to work in a school. The act authorizes a school or school district, the state charter school institute, a board of cooperative services that operates a school, or the division of youth services to employ school-based therapists who are not licensed by the department but hold a Colorado license for their profession to work in coordination with licensed special service providers to coordinate mental health supports for students. Before being employed, the school-based therapists must satisfy certain requirements for nonlicensed school employees, including a fingerprint-based criminal background check. Any school-based therapists may be supervised by a mentor special services provider or a licensed administrator. If an eligible school-based therapist provides services to a student related to the student's individualized education program, the eligible school-based therapist must have qualifications consistent with the student's individualized education program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/16/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/18/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 62–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Janice Marchman — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2023-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-15T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd965d4f-512c-44c0-b380-db90a4fae963. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).