republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2019a/hb-19-1044.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Advance Behavioral Health Orders Treatment"
description: "Advance behavioral health orders for scope of treatment form. Under current law, an adult may establish advance medical orders for scope of treatment, allowing an adult to establish directives for the administration of medical treatment in the event the adult later lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to, withdraw from, or refuse medical treatment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2019A"
identifier: "HB 19-1044"
citation: "Colorado HB 19-1044 (2019A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Lois Landgraf", "Nancy Todd", "Tracy Kraft-Tharp"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae91e926-bbf5-4cd3-8ced-246cb4230133"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1044"
source_hash: "1e0777ce776167a6ab99575c28bd53074447d805282dcbae0e74538ec21e53ae"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 19-1044 (2019A) — Advance Behavioral Health Orders Treatment

Advance behavioral health orders for scope of treatment form. Under current law, an adult may establish advance medical orders for scope of treatment, allowing an adult to establish directives for the administration of medical treatment in the event the adult later lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to, withdraw from, or refuse medical treatment.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_hb1044_s_hhs_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (01/25/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/19/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/04/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (01/24/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044phc_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (02/22/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044shhs_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (01/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (02/27/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (02/26/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1044_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (03/28/2019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1044_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Lois Landgraf — primary (person)
- Nancy Todd — primary (person)
- Tracy Kraft-Tharp — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2019-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2019-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 03/01/2019
- **2019-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-29T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public Health Care & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2019-01-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public Health Care & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae91e926-bbf5-4cd3-8ced-246cb4230133`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).