republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1097.md

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Bill	Establish Behavioral Health Administration	The act addresses multiple recommendations from the Colorado behavioral health task force (task force), created in 2019, related to the creation of a behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA would be a single state agency to lead, promote, and administer the state's behavioral health priorities.The act requires the department of human services (department) to submit a plan for the creation of the BHA on or before November 1, 2021, to the joint budget committee and to the department's committees of reference. The act outlines what the plan must, at a minimum, include. The essential duties of the BHA, once established, are set forth.A timeline is described for the establishment of the BHA in the department and for a future determination of the state department in which the BHA will exist, if different than the department of human services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1097	Colorado HB 21-1097 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Bob Gardner Mary Young Rhonda Fields Rod Pelton	15	13	2	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51b665e1-297c-4e18-a977-a042aa703b59	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1097	98b1d5e1271b4f69d8aee28417b9328336ce19bd4e03fb6a248c33e58e98b193	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1097 (2021A) — Establish Behavioral Health Administration

The act addresses multiple recommendations from the Colorado behavioral health task force (task force), created in 2019, related to the creation of a behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA would be a single state agency to lead, promote, and administer the state's behavioral health priorities.The act requires the department of human services (department) to submit a plan for the creation of the BHA on or before November 1, 2021, to the joint budget committee and to the department's committees of reference. The act outlines what the plan must, at a minimum, include. The essential duties of the BHA, once established, are set forth.A timeline is described for the establishment of the BHA in the department and for a future determination of the state department in which the BHA will exist, if different than the department of human services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.004 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.005 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment L.006 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment L.007 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment L.008 (committee substitute) — source
6. Amendment L.009 (committee substitute) — source
7. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
8. Engrossed (03/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Final Act (04/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. PA1 (03/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
12. Reengrossed (03/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
13. Rerevised (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
14. Revised (04/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
15. Signed Act (04/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 52–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Gardner — primary (person)
• Mary Young — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Rod Pelton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - No Amendments
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51b665e1-297c-4e18-a977-a042aa703b59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).