republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1146.md

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Bill	Auricular Acudetox Professional Practice	In 2020, the general assembly repealed the requirement in the mental health practice act that a professional must be licensed, registered, or certified as a mental health professional in order to practice auricular acudetox. The act makes a conforming amendment to clarify that it is not an unlawful act for a professional who is trained to perform auricular acudetox to perform the practice without a license, registration, or certification as a mental health professional.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1146	Colorado HB 21-1146 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Andres Pico Donald Valdez Rachel Zenzinger Rob Woodward	8	12	2	2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8218620e-a46e-4487-bdde-173b39100ac2	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1146	fbfecae52b0b8fffb5b43ee6515b92f6ab922da47835e5faa6d604d3fa2c77e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1146 (2021A) — Auricular Acudetox Professional Practice

In 2020, the general assembly repealed the requirement in the mental health practice act that a professional must be licensed, registered, or certified as a mental health professional in order to practice auricular acudetox. The act makes a conforming amendment to clarify that it is not an unlawful act for a professional who is trained to perform auricular acudetox to perform the practice without a license, registration, or certification as a mental health professional.(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. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Andres Pico — primary (person)
• Donald Valdez — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
• Rob Woodward — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8218620e-a46e-4487-bdde-173b39100ac2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).