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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Registered Psychotherapists Auricular Acudetox"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2018A"
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identifier: "SB 18-020"
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citation: "Colorado SB 18-020 (2018A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Daneya Esgar", "Leroy Garcia"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17022495-5503-4a48-98b5-8698be3524b4"
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source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-020"
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source_hash: "072176d7e9d9bb089301b588b1be06339ed18cdd8abe80c36ad6e3e77ca30f59"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado SB 18-020 (2018A) — Registered Psychotherapists Auricular Acudetox
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018a/bills/cr/2018a_sb020_h_hie_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (01/23/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (03/12/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (01/10/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_01.pdf)
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5. **Reengrossed (01/24/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_ren.pdf)
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6. **Rerevised (03/06/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_rer.pdf)
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7. **Revised (03/05/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_rev.pdf)
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8. **Signed Act (03/22/2018)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018A/bills/2018a_020_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower
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- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
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- Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2018-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2018-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2018-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
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- **2018-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
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- **2018-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/05/2018 - No Amendments
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- **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`
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- **2018-01-26T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance, & Environment `introduction`
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- **2018-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
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- **2018-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
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- **2018-01-22T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **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`
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- **2018-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17022495-5503-4a48-98b5-8698be3524b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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