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type: "Bill"
title: "School-Based Mental Health Support Program"
description: "The act creates the school-based mental health support program (program) in the behavioral health administration (BHA) to provide high-quality training, resources, and implementation and sustainment support for the existing public school educator workforce to provide evidence-based mental health services to students through a contract with an external provider. The program emphasizes supporting schools in rural areas and schools with students who do not have equitable access to mental health care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1406"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1406 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Kirkmeyer", "Jeff Bridges", "Rick Taggart", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91497f3a-d8e4-4d75-b5f6-f9e4fd5f7fab"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1406"
source_hash: "99a54667549e878e1d04dc327e5b52c88febd69e7f3ef9c16e419d2b94c8c1d4"
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 HB 24-1406 (2024A) — School-Based Mental Health Support Program
The act creates the school-based mental health support program (program) in the behavioral health administration (BHA) to provide high-quality training, resources, and implementation and sustainment support for the existing public school educator workforce to provide evidence-based mental health services to students through a contract with an external provider. The program emphasizes supporting schools in rural areas and schools with students who do not have equitable access to mental health care.
## 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/2024a_hb1406_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/12/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/25/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/27/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/01/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/04/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1406_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1406_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **47–17** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–3** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Barbara Kirkmeyer — primary (person)
- Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
- Rick Taggart — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-04-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-11T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91497f3a-d8e4-4d75-b5f6-f9e4fd5f7fab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).