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type: "Bill"
title: "Excused Absences In Public Schools For Behavioral Health"
description: "School Safety Committee. Current law requires school districts to adopt a written policy setting forth the school district's attendance requirements. The bill requires the policy to include excused absences for behavioral health concerns.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2020A"
identifier: "SB 20-014"
citation: "Colorado SB 20-014 (2020A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Lisa Cutter", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbae3dde-c03d-44ff-9c29-75377a9fcf09"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20-014"
source_hash: "258337c855eeeedfe88879115c9e7efbba0e570f9d293aa455e07ea3bf34da83"
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 SB 20-014 (2020A) — Excused Absences In Public Schools For Behavioral Health
School Safety Committee. Current law requires school districts to adopt a written policy setting forth the school district's attendance requirements. The bill requires the policy to include excused absences for behavioral health concerns.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
## 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/2020a_sb014_h_ed_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/11/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/17/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/08/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/12/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/09/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/05/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020A/bills/2020a_014_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/23/2020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2020a_014_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **340** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **640** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
- Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2020-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2020-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-08T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbae3dde-c03d-44ff-9c29-75377a9fcf09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).