Title 25, Public Health and Environment
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-101 Legislative declaration
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(1) Every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception. (2) Contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information are not available as a practical matter to many …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-102 Policy, authority, and prohibitions against restrictions
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(1) All medically acceptable contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information shall be readily and practicably available to each person desirous of the same regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, creed, religion, disability, age…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-103 Department of public health and environment - powers and duties
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The department of public health and environment is authorized to receive and disburse such funds as may become available to it for family planning programs to any organization, public or private, engaged in providing contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information. Any family…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-104 Department of public health and environment - family planning access collaborative - legislative declaration - recommendations - funding - repeal. (Repealed)
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C.R.S. 25-6-104Statutes current through Chapter 65 of the 2026 Regular Session, effective as of April 20, 2026. The text of this section is not final. It will not be final until compared to, and updated from, the text provided by the Colorado Office of Legislative Legal Services …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-201 This part 2 to be liberally construed
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This part 2 shall be liberally construed to protect the rights of all individuals to pursue their religious beliefs, to follow the dictates of their own consciences, to prevent the imposition upon any individual of practices offensive to the individual's moral standards, to respe…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-202 Services to be offered by the county
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The governing body of each county and each city and county or any county or district public health agency thereof or any welfare department thereof may provide and pay for, and each county and each city and county or any public health agency or county or district public health ag…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-203 Extent of services
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Family planning and birth control services shall include: Interview with trained personnel; distribution of literature; referral to a licensed physician, an advanced practice registered nurse, or a certified midwife for consultation, examination, tests, medical treatment, and pre…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-204 Counties may charge for services
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The governmental unit making provision for and offering such services may charge those persons to whom family planning and birth control services are rendered a fee sufficient to reimburse the county or city and county all or any portion of the costs of the services rendered. Sou…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-205 Services may be refused
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The refusal of any person to accept family planning and birth control services shall in no way affect the right of such person to receive public assistance or to avail himself of any other public benefit, and every person to whom such services are offered shall be so advised init…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-206 Interviews conducted in language recipient understands
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In all cases where the recipient does not speak or read the English language, the services shall not be given unless the interviews are conducted and all literature is written in a language which the recipient understands. Source: L. 65: p. 464, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 36-20-5.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-207 County employee exemption
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Any county employee or city and county employee may refuse to accept the duty of offering family planning and birth control services to the extent that such duty is contrary to his personal religious beliefs, and such refusal shall not be grounds for any disciplinary action, for …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-301 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) The American academy of pediatrics recommends breast-feeding exclusively for the first six months of an infant's life but continuing with other forms of nutrition for at least the first twelve months of an infant's life…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-302 Breast-feeding
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A mother may breast-feed in any place she has a right to be. Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 597, � 1, effective April 23.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-401 Short title
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The short title of this part 4 is the Reproductive Health Equity Act. Source: L. 2022: Entire part added, (HB 22-1279), ch. 67, p. 330, � 2, effective April 4.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-402 Definitions
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As used in this part 4, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Abortion means any medical procedure, instrument, agent, or drug used to terminate the pregnancy of an individual known or reasonably believed to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the probabilit…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-403 Fundamental reproductive health-care rights
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(1) Every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception. (2) A pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an a…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-404 Public entity - prohibited actions
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(1) A public entity shall not: (a) Deny, restrict, interfere with, or discriminate against an individual's fundamental right to use or refuse contraception or to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, ser…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-405 Application
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(1) This part 4 applies to all state and local laws, ordinances, policies, procedures, regulatory guidelines and rules, practices, executive orders, and governmental actions and their implementation, whether statutory or otherwise. The rights protected under this part 4 are a mat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-406 Severability
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If any provision of this part 4 or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this part 4 that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the pro…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25-6-407 Enforcement
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The venue to enforce an action pursuant to the provisions of this part 4 is in the Denver district court. Source: L. 2023: Entire section added, (SB 23-188), ch. 68, p. 251, � 24, effective April 14. Cross references: For the legislative declaration in SB 23-188, see section 1 of…