Money in the state agency sustainability revolving fund (fund) is used for the operation of the office of sustainability and to assist in replacing the state's gas- and diesel-powered equipment that is located in ozone nonattainment areas with equivalent electric equipment. The act repeals the requirement that the state treasurer transfer $400,000 from the general fund to the fund on July 1 of each year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act provides that the following funds are no longer continuously appropriated for use by the following executive branch agencies and instead are available to be expended by those agencies subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly: The child welfare cash fund for use by the department of human services; The community impact cash fund for use by the department of public health and environment; The accelerated appeal cash fund for use by the board of assessment appeals within the department of local affairs; The mobile home park act dispute resolution and enforcement program fund for use by the division of housing in the department of local affairs; The public safety communications revolving fund for use by the office of public safety communications in the division of homeland security and emergency management in the department of public safety; and The state agency sustainability revolving fund for use by the department of personnel. For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $284,167 from the child welfare cash fund to the department of human services for use by the division of child welfare for child welfare licensing. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act extends the repeal date from September 1, 2025, to September 1, 2030, for statutes authorizing the transfer of spending authority between line items in specified circumstances and allowing overexpenditures in excess of the amount authorized by an item of appropriation in specified circumstances. The act also clarifies which transfers between appropriations are for like purposes in the statute allowing for intradepartmental transfers and specifies that transfers between any line items of appropriation in the department of corrections that are not explicitly authorized in a footnote to the annual general appropriation act are not for like purposes. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act reduces the transfer from the limited gaming fund to the advanced industries acceleration cash fund for state fiscal year 2025-2026 from $5,500,000 to $1,840,000. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In 2022, the general assembly created the Colorado household financial recovery pilot program to facilitate lending to individuals and households impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic who face financial insecurity and who have difficulty accessing affordable loans to address the financial insecurity. The act repeals the "Colorado Household Financial Recovery Pilot Program Act". On June 30, 2025, the state treasurer is required to transfer the balance of the Colorado household financial recovery pilot program fund to the general fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the Colorado school of mines (school) has a performance contract with the department of higher education that specifies the measurable performance goals that the school must achieve during the contract's term and authorizes the school's board of trustees to establish resident and nonresident tuition rates. The act repeals this performance contract. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act clarifies that requirements for out-of-state telehealth providers do not alter or limit the rights and protections afforded to a person concerning a legally protected health-care activity. Current law requires a prescription drug label to include the name of the prescribing practitioner. At the practitioner's request, the act authorizes a prescription label for mifepristone, misoprostol, and the generic alternatives to those prescriptions to include only the name of the prescribing health-care practice instead of the name of the practitioner, provided the practitioner includes the name of the health-care practice on the paper or electronic form of the prescription. The act requires any person requesting a subpoena to affirm under penalty of perjury that the subpoena: Is not related to, and any information obtained will not be used in, any investigation or proceeding that seeks to impose civil or criminal liability or professional sanctions against a person or entity that engaged in or attempted or intended to engage in a legally protected health-care activity or that provided insurance coverage for gender-affirming health-care services or reproductive health care; or Is related to such an investigation or proceeding, but the investigation or proceeding is brought under tort law or contract law by the person who engaged in or attempted or intended to engage in a legally protected health-care activity, gender-affirming health-care services, or reproductive health care, and is actionable in an equivalent or similar manner under Colorado law. If a person or entity brings an out-of-state civil or criminal action, or attempts to enforce any order or judgment issued in connection with an action, against another person or entity for engaging in or attempting or intending to engage in a legally protected health-care activity or for providing insurance coverage for gender-affirming health-care services or reproductive health care, the person or entity subject to the out-of-state civil or criminal action has a private right of action against the person or entity and may institute a civil action in district court within 6 years after the date the out-of-state action is commenced or enforcement is attempted. Current law authorizes a private person to arrest a person without a warrant upon reasonable information that the person is charged in another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. The act creates an exception if the person is charged in another state for engaging in a legally protected health-care activity in Colorado. Current law prohibits a public agency from expending government resources or providing information or data in furtherance of any out-of-state investigation or proceeding seeking to impose civil or criminal liability or professional sanction upon a person or entity for engaging in a legally protected health-care activity. The act expands the prohibition to include public entities, which include state and local governments, and a person or entity licensed or regulated by the state. The act grants the attorney general the authority to enforce the provisions of the act. The act prohibits the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) from collecting a patient's name, date of birth, address, employer, spouse's name, or parent's or legal guardian's name, or the city or town where the termination of pregnancy occurred, as part of any required reporting of induced terminations of pregnancy. Reports of induced terminations of pregnancy collected by CDPHE must only be used for compilation of statistical reports, must not be incorporated into the official records of the office of the state registrar of vital statistics, and are confidential. The state registrar is required to dispose of any reports of induced terminations of pregnancy when all statistical processing of the reports is complete. A person who releases or discloses confidential information related to reporting of induced terminations of pregnancy commits a data privacy breach. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
During the 2024 general election, Colorado voters approved Amendment 79, which: Repealed the state constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of public funds to pay for abortions; and Added a state constitutional amendment recognizing the right to an abortion and prohibiting Colorado state and local governments from denying, impeding, or discriminating against the exercise of that right, including prohibiting health insurance companies from excluding coverage for abortion. The act makes conforming changes to state law relating to abortion care as a result of Amendment 79. Current law requires the executive director of the department of health care policy and financing to authorize medicaid reimbursement for family-planning-related services. The act expands the definition of "family-planning-related services" to include abortion care. The act requires the medical services board to include abortion care in the schedule of health-care services available for pregnant persons enrolled in the children's basic health plan. $2,928,800 is appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing from the general fund for other medical services, including abortion care. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $6 million from the general fund to the hazardous substance response fund on July 1, 2025. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act repeals statutory requirements for the following annual appropriations by the general assembly: The appropriation to the performance-based collaborative management incentive cash fund to serve children who would benefit from integrated multi-agency services; The appropriation to the Colorado child abuse prevention trust fund for programs to reduce the occurrence of prenatal substance exposure; The appropriation to the behavioral health administration for the purpose of selecting a recovery residence certifying body; The appropriation to the behavioral health administration for the purpose of establishing a program to provide temporary financial housing assistance to certain individuals with a substance use disorder who have no supportive housing options; and The appropriation to the behavioral health administration for the administration and implementation of the recovery support services grant program. To implement the act, appropriations made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2025-26 state fiscal year to the department of human services for use by the division of child welfare are adjusted by the act as follows: The general fund appropriation for collaborative management incentives is increased by $1,165,039; The reappropriated funds appropriation from the collaborative management cash fund for collaborative management incentives is decreased by $1,165,039; and The general fund appropriation to the collaborative management cash fund is decreased by $1,165,039. The general fund appropriation made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2025-26 state fiscal year to the department of early childhood for use by the division of community and family support for child maltreatment prevention is reduced by $150,000. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
On July 1, 2025, and on July 1 of each year thereafter through July 1, 2034, the act requires the state treasurer to transfer $15 million from the local government severance tax fund to the public safety communications trust fund (trust fund). The money in the trust fund must be used to support the digital trunked radio system, including site-supporting infrastructure and supporting software and hardware. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act eliminates the requirement that the commissioner of education annually reprint and distribute laws enacted by the general assembly that concern education. The act decreases the associated appropriation from the state public school fund to the department of education by $35,480 for the 2025-26 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
