Legislation
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HB26-1327: Large Employer Worker Health-Care Support
This bill creates a state enterprise that charges large employers a $2,300 annual fee per Medicaid-enrolled worker, unless they offer affordable health coverage, to fund Medicaid costs and worker buy-in grants.
HB26-1325: Natural Medicine
This bill creates a pilot program in Colorado’s behavioral health administration to research ibogaine for mental health and substance use treatment, while also updating natural medicine licensing, liability, and regulation rules.
HB26-1235: Updates to Medicaid
This bill adds several Medicaid reporting and provider requirements in Colorado, including transportation broker reporting, notice for outpatient therapy payment cuts, federal community engagement rules, and the repeal of the state medical assistance advisory council.
HB26-1229: Supporting the Human-Animal Bond
This bill recognizes the human-animal bond as a life-enhancing resource and lets the health disparities grant program fund entities that support it, if the general assembly appropriates additional money.
HB26-1228: Marriage & Family Therapy Clinical Requirements
This bill lets LMFT applicants whose degree programs lacked an internship or practicum register as LMFT candidates, but requires them to complete an additional 700 supervised clinical hours before licensure.
HB26-1107: Health Care in Regulated Facilities
This bill requires Colorado dementia care facilities to complete, share, and publish a standardized information form, created by the health department, disclosing their dementia training, restraint use, security measures, and placement and discharge criteria.
HB26-1096: Colorado Medicaid Access to Primary Care Services
This bill bars Colorado’s Medicaid department from preventing members from buying direct primary care services, as long as members sign an acknowledgment that Medicaid won’t pay for those services.
HB26-1069: Availability of Emergency Medical Services
This bill defines “first responder” in Colorado law, changes the emergency medical and trauma services council’s role from approving to recommending rules, and requires Medicaid to reimburse ambulance services for transport, on-scene treatment, and telemedicine evaluations starting January 1, 2027.
HB26-1042: Dry Needling by Occupational Therapists
This bill lets Colorado occupational therapists perform dry needling starting September 1, 2027, if they have documented competency, complete a required course, and get patients’ written informed consent.
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HB25-1263: Graduate Medical Education Grant Program
This bill creates a state grant program to help Colorado health-care facilities that have never hosted a physician residency establish new accredited residency programs and address physician shortages.
HB25-1213: Updates to Medicaid
This bill updates Colorado’s Medicaid program to reduce provider administrative burdens, improve access to patient information, and streamline processes for enrollees and providers.
HB25-1200: Modifications to Office of Child Protection Ombudsman
This bill strengthens Colorado’s Office of Child Protection Ombudsman by expanding its powers to access information, investigate complaints, and recommend improvements to child welfare services.
HB25-1179: Auto Insurance Coverage Child Restraint System
This bill requires Colorado auto insurers to cover the replacement cost of child car seats and booster seats that are in a vehicle during a covered accident.
HB25-1166: Efforts to Reduce Food Waste
This bill reduces food waste in Colorado through public education, donation incentives, and better coordination across the food supply chain, diverting edible food from landfills to people in need.
HB25-1162: Eligibility Redetermination for Medicaid Members
This bill streamlines Medicaid renewals for Coloradans with stable incomes, such as those with disabilities or SSI, by letting the state skip burdensome re-verification steps and making it easier for a member’s own physician to verify their need.
HB25-1059: Food Waste Reduction in Public Schools
This bill encourages Colorado schools to adopt food waste reduction policies like share tables, donation, and composting, with liability protection for staff who supervise redistributed food.
HB25-1025: Stockpile of Essential Materials Distribution
This bill sets up procedures for distributing essential materials from Colorado’s state stockpiles to local governments and community organizations during emergencies like natural disasters or public health crises.
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SB26-032: Promoting Immunization Access
This bill lets Colorado’s board of health set vaccine schedules using recommendations from groups beyond ACIP, while expanding vaccine access and liability protections.
SB26-007: Medical Marijuana Use in Health Facilities
This bill lets Colorado health facilities allow terminally ill patients in the state’s medical marijuana program to use it on-site under facility-set safety rules, without requiring facilities to handle it or making compliance a condition of licensure.
SB25-297: Implementation of Colorado Natural Medicine Initiative
This bill requires Colorado’s health department to collect and report de-identified data on the health, law enforcement, and consumer impacts of natural medicine use, while adding labeling restrictions on products and updating licensing procedures for facilitators and healing centers.
SB25-282: Protections for Veterans Seeking Benefits
This bill regulates people who charge veterans for help with VA benefits claims by capping fees, requiring written contracts and disclosures, and banning outcome guarantees, with violations treated as deceptive trade practices under Colorado’s Consumer Protection Act.
SB25-192: Medical Marijuana Use in Health Facilities
This bill starts a sunset review of Colorado’s Community Health Service Agency (EMS) to evaluate its effectiveness and continued relevance, ensuring public funds support accountable, well-performing agencies.
SB25-166: Health-Care Workplace Violence Incentive Payments
This bill requires Colorado’s Medicaid department to include workplace violence reduction in hospital quality performance measures and requires hospitals to adopt formal policies to prevent violence against health care and social service workers.
SB25-152: Health-Care Practitioner Identification Requirements
This bill requires Colorado health-care practitioners to wear clear identification badges showing their credentials and roles, standardizing identification practices across facilities.
SB25-149: Local Government Duties Equestrian Protections
This bill protects equestrians on Colorado roadways and trails by requiring drivers to pass wide and slow, setting standards for equestrian crossings and parking, and letting local governments build, sign, and plan for equestrian facilities and zones.
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HB26-1384: Direct Transfers for Colorado Department of Labor & Employment School-to-Work Programs
HB26-1195: Psychotherapy Artificial Intelligence Restrictions
HB25-1291: Transportation Network Company Consumer Protection
HB25-1195: First Responder Voter Registration Record Confidentiality
HB25-1163: Free Access to State Parks for Colorado Ute Tribes
HB25-1017: Community Integration Plan Individuals with Disabilities