republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1251.md

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Bill	Appropriate Use Of Chemical Restraints On A Person	When a peace officer is present at the scene of an emergency, an emergency medical service provider (EMS provider) authorized to administer ketamine in a prehospital setting shall only administer ketamine if the EMS provider has:Weighed the individual to ensure accurate dosage or estimated the individual's weight with the agreement of at least 2 personnel trained in weight assessment if the EMS provider is unable to weigh the individual;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1251	Colorado HB 21-1251 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Leslie Herod Rhonda Fields Yadira Caraveo	11	19	17	2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00	2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e0fa3683-dcc8-49f9-914b-a514bab35c2e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1251	4675076c3ff67181fd294683890e2479444dfb546e01a980743e53056a59ff93	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1251 (2021A) — Appropriate Use Of Chemical Restraints On A Person

When a peace officer is present at the scene of an emergency, an emergency medical service provider (EMS provider) authorized to administer ketamine in a prehospital setting shall only administer ketamine if the EMS provider has:Weighed the individual to ensure accurate dosage or estimated the individual's weight with the agreement of at least 2 personnel trained in weight assessment if the EMS provider is unable to weigh the individual;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (07/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 24–36 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 23–37 (fail) · lower
• NOT CNCR — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 42–23 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 22–38 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 23–37 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 23–37 (fail) · lower
• COW * — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 23–37 (fail) · lower
• REPASS — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 40–25 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 37–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
• Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 05/05/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0fa3683-dcc8-49f9-914b-a514bab35c2e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).