republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2022a/sb-22-188.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Support For Criminal Justice Advocates"
description: "The act creates the public defender and prosecutor behavioral health support program (program) in the department of local affairs (department). The department allocates fifty percent of program money and any gifts, grants, and donations received to the office of the state public defender and the remaining fifty percent to the Colorado district attorneys' council (CDAC). CDAC administers a grant program to award grants to individual district attorney's offices. A grant recipient and the office of the state public defender may use program money for counseling services, including reimbursements for the costs of counseling services; training and education programs that teach the symptoms of job-related trauma and how to prevent and treat trauma; and peer support programs. The office of the state public defender and CDAC are annually required to report to the House and Senate judiciary committees about the grant program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 22-188"
citation: "Colorado SB 22-188 (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brianna Titone", "Don Coram", "Dylan Roberts", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a928e3ce-8b90-472b-a58c-62712ce1239d"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-188"
source_hash: "83672ab7cd695be3b468970004cde094377c159ac33bf1616afe343d6d73c309"
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 22-188 (2022A) — Behavioral Health Support For Criminal Justice Advocates

The act creates the public defender and prosecutor behavioral health support program (program) in the department of local affairs (department). The department allocates fifty percent of program money and any gifts, grants, and donations received to the office of the state public defender and the remaining fifty percent to the Colorado district attorneys' council (CDAC). CDAC administers a grant program to award grants to individual district attorney's offices. A grant recipient and the office of the state public defender may use program money for counseling services, including reimbursements for the costs of counseling services; training and education programs that teach the symptoms of job-related trauma and how to prevent and treat trauma; and peer support programs. The office of the state public defender and CDAC are annually required to report to the House and Senate judiciary committees about the grant program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_sb188_h_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_en2.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/16/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/29/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/08/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_s_jud_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/12/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_s_jud_app_01.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/13/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/10/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/09/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022A/bills/2022a_188_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (05/20/2022)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2022a_188_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **56–9** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **32–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brianna Titone — primary (person)
- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Dylan Roberts — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2022-05-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2022-05-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`
- **2022-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2022-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a928e3ce-8b90-472b-a58c-62712ce1239d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).