republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/hb-24-1037.md

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Bill	Substance Use Disorders Harm Reduction	The act excludes injuries involving the possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia from a physician's mandatory reporting requirements. The act also adds an exemption to the prohibition on possessing drug paraphernalia for possession of drug paraphernalia that a person received from an approved syringe exchange program or a program carried out by a harm reduction organization while the person was participating in the program.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	HB 24-1037	Colorado HB 24-1037 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Chris deGruy Kennedy Elisabeth Epps Kevin Priola	9	18	7	2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a080de9d-b3c6-49b3-97f7-c23f6e414baa	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1037	df720aae8514f9825947f6b6f5cf9383ac3b4b78c87c79051122350ec444f823	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 24-1037 (2024A) — Substance Use Disorders Harm Reduction

The act excludes injuries involving the possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia from a physician's mandatory reporting requirements. The act also adds an exemption to the prohibition on possessing drug paraphernalia for possession of drug paraphernalia that a person received from an approved syringe exchange program or a program carried out by a harm reduction organization while the person was participating in the program.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/01/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/21/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (04/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• NOT CNCR — 52–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 44–20 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT — 46–13 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 45–14 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT CCR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris deGruy Kennedy — primary (person)
• Elisabeth Epps — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
• 2024-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
• 2024-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2024-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2024-03-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction
• 2024-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2024-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health & Human Services introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a080de9d-b3c6-49b3-97f7-c23f6e414baa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).