The bill establishes regulations for the sale, transfer, or distribution of compounded weight-loss medication, which custom-made medications that, is defined in the bill as a drug that is: Created by combining, mixing, or altering other drugs or drug substances; Intended to be used by humans for obesity or weight management and contains an active ingredient that is named in a drug approved by the federal food and drug administration (FDA); and A glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist drug, known as a 'GLP-1' drug. Unlike mass-produced medications, a compound weight-loss medication is not subject to approval by the federal food and drug administration (FDA). A person may not sell, transfer, or distribute a compounded weight-loss medication unless the person confirms that the medication: FDA. Is made from bulk drug substances and drugs that are approved by the FDA when such approval is required; Was manufactured in compliance with FDA processes; Contains bulk drug substances that are pharmaceutical grade and are accompanied by a certificate of analysis containing information that is material to the safety and efficacy of the bulk drug substances; Was manufactured at a facility that is registered with the FDA and passed an FDA inspection within the previous 2 years; and Is verified for purity and accurate dosage. Labels for compounded weight-loss medications must list all active and inactive ingredients, the quantity of those ingredients, and the ingredients' country of origin. There must also be a warning on the label stating that the compounded weight-loss medication has not been FDA-approved, has inadequate evidence of safety or efficacy, and has known and unknown side effects. A person must also provide certain disclosures to a patient when prescribing compounded weight-loss medications. The bill prohibits the use of false or misleading claims, including unsubstantiated claims, when advertising or promoting compounded weight-loss medications. A person that sells, transfers, or distributes compounded weight-lost medication must keep records related to the compounded weight-loss medication for at least 2 years after the date of expiration of the compounded weight-loss medication and make those records available for inspection by the state board of pharmacy. The state board of pharmacy may issue fines of up to $1,000 per dose of compounded weight-loss medications that are sold or distributed in violation of the bill and may revoke a pharmacy or business license for violations. The attorney general has authority to enforce this bill as a deceptive trade practice under the 'Colorado Consumer Protection Act'. The bill establishes that a person engages in a deceptive trade practice when the person : Makes a false or misleading claim about a compounded weight-loss medication when advertising or promoting the medication; Distributes a compounded weight-loss medication when not legally authorized to distribute or transfer the drug used in the compounded weight-loss medication; Makes a materially false or misleading representation that the compounded weight-loss medication is approved by the FDA when the medication is not approved by the FDA; or Makes a materially false, misleading, or unverified claim regarding the efficacy, safety, performance, outcomes, or benefits of the compounded weight-loss medication. The attorney general has exclusive authority to enforce the bill as a deceptive trade practice under the 'Colorado Consumer Protection Act'. There is no private right of action for a violation of the bill, and the provisions of the bill may only be enforced by the attorney general. The bill does not apply to certain facilities or in certain circumstances, including: The administration of a compounded weight-loss medication by a practitioner at certain hospitals, clinics, and other health facilities licensed by the department of public health and environment; Long term care facilities; Assisted living residences; Home care agencies; The program of all-inclusive care for the elderly or PACE program; Adult day care facilities; or The compounding of drugs for animal use.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

The bill establishes the Colorado domestic exchange program (program) in the Colorado department of education (department). The program facilitates a 2-week exchange program for high school seniors the summer after their high school graduation. The students participating in the program spend one week in another state and one week hosting recently graduated high school seniors from another state in the students' hometown. The bill requires the department to contract with a coordinating entity to facilitate the program. The program is contingent on the department receiving $45,000 of gifts, grants, or donations for the program by June 30, 2027.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill creates a tuition waiver for qualified dependents of disabled veterans to attend state colleges or universities.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill requires the department of education to:Ensure that standardized summative assessments are administered to students to the minimum extent possible; andApply for a federal waiver for federal assessment requirements, if necessary.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill removes human trafficking for involuntary servitude and human trafficking for sexual servitude (human trafficking offenses) from the list of crimes of violence that are subject to enhanced sentencing if they involve the use, or possession and threatened use of, a deadly weapon or the infliction of serious bodily injury or death. Instead, the bill requires a court to sentence a person convicted of a human trafficking offense or a related attempt or conspiracy to the department of corrections for a term of at least the midpoint, but not more than twice the maximum, of the presumptive range authorized for the applicable offense. It clarifies that a class 3 felony human trafficking offense is also subject to sentencing modifications that are permitted under current law for crimes that present an extraordinary risk of harm to society.The bill subjects a person convicted of the following to enhanced sentencing:Pimping, if the victim is an at-risk person; andHuman trafficking for involuntary servitude, or human trafficking for sexual servitude, if the victim is an at-risk adult.The bill adds the source of money posted to satisfy a monetary condition of release, including the likelihood that the money is derived from criminal activity, to the list of criteria a court may consider in making a determination of the type of bond and conditions of release.The bill changes terminology related to child prostitution to commercial sexual activity in the crimes of soliciting for child prostitution, pandering of a child, keeping a place of child prostitution, pimping a child, inducement of child prostitution, and patronizing a prostituted child, including changing the name of the offenses for soliciting for child prostitution, keeping a place of child prostitution, inducement of child prostitution, and patronizing a prostituted child.In the crime of soliciting for commercial sexual activity with a child, the bill adds soliciting a child for commercial sexual activity as a means of committing the offense and requires that when arranging or offering to arrange a meeting, the offender must know that the meeting will facilitate commercial sexual activity with a child.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws. The bill enacts the "Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors Act". An assignment is a transfer by a person (assignor) of all of the person's assets to another person (assignee) for the benefit of the assignor's creditors (assignment). The bill prohibits certain persons from serving as an assignee, including creditors, affiliates, or insiders of the assignor, and creates requirements for an assignment agreement. The bill establishes specific duties for the parties to an assignment, including:The assignor must preserve and turn over assets, provide information necessary to administer the assignment estate, and verify a list of all known creditors and assets under penalty of perjury;The assignee has a fiduciary duty to the assignment estate and must manage the assignment estate in good faith to maximize distributions and wind up the assignment in a timely manner; andThe assignee shall notify known creditors of the assignment, maintain a separate deposit account for money, collect on or dispose of assets, and provide financial summaries to creditors at least every 6 months. The assignee is authorized to perform specific acts in furtherance of the assignee's duties, including operating the assignor's business, incurring debt, settling claims, and avoiding certain transfers that a creditor could have avoided under other law. The assignee may allow or dispute a creditor's claim against the assignment estate as specified in the bill. The priority of distributions from the assignment estate is specified in the bill. The assignor and assignee are not personally liable for each other's acts. However, an assignee is personally liable for a breach of fiduciary duty. A court may remove an assignee for cause or if removal best serves the interests of the creditors. The assignee is discharged from the assignee's duties upon sending a final accounting and distributing all assets.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The act creates the cradle to career grant program (grant program) in the department of human services (CDHS) to provide grants to a local government, local education provider, state institution of higher education, Indian tribe or tribal organization, or community-based nonprofit or not-for-profit organization (eligible entity) to promote coordinated community-based supports and services that open opportunities for economic mobility from poverty. The grant program must connect children and youth with high-quality educational and extracurricular programming and families with key health and social services in order to improve prenatal and early childhood outcomes, student achievement, workforce readiness, and wealth-building opportunities. The act creates the cradle to career advisory council (council) to approve or disapprove CDHS's potential grant recipients and to collaborate with CDHS to develop grant program guidelines and criteria for awarding grants. Council members must be Colorado residents and must not provide financial support for the grant program. To receive a grant, an eligible entity must submit an application that includes an economic mobility needs assessment and a comprehensive proposal to address the needs within its designated service area. The application must identify prospective community partners and subcontractors. The act caps the amount that CDHS may award in connection with a single grant application at 49% of available grant program money. A grant recipient must comply with various health and safety, financial responsibility, and anti-discrimination safeguards. Each grant recipient must annually report to CDHS addressing the recipient's progress using a set of performance indicators to assess the economic mobility outcomes and impacts associated with the grant award. CDHS must make a related report to the health and human services committees of the general assembly and the governor each year. CDHS may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, and donations for grant-program-related purposes. If CDHS does not receive $900,000 for those purposes on or before December 31, 2028, the grant program is repealed. The general assembly shall not appropriate general fund dollars for grant program operations.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The bill increases overtime protections for agricultural employees by requiring that agricultural employees be paid at an overtime rate for any work performed in excess of:40 hours per workweek;12 hours per workday; or12 consecutive hours.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Based on the findings and recommendations of the committee on legal services, the act extends all state agency rules that were adopted or amended on or after November 1, 2024, and before November 1, 2025.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

A renewable energy project developer (facility owner) that intends to undertake a project to build a renewable energy facility (renewable energy project) may currently submit an application for land use approval from the renewable energy project to a local government. However, current law does not specify what process a local government may use to charge fees or set a timeline for the local government to make a final decision regarding land use approval for the renewable energy project. The bill specifies that control over the specifics of the application process rests with the local government. The local government may establish fees for an application for a renewable energy project and may offer two independent tracks for the application based on the fee the facility owner pays. The standard track allows a facility owner to pay a lower fee, but does not guarantee a specific timeline for the local government to issue a final decision on the application. The expedited track allows a facility owner to pay an additional fee, with an agreement that if the local government takes longer than 120 days, minus any permitted tolling periods, a percentage of the higher fee will be refunded. The bill gives local governments authority to contract with third-party technical reviewers to review the application for a final decision. The bill also requires a facility owner to pay a success fee to the local government upon final approval of the project, based on the amount of time between receipt of the application and when the project is approved, to be used by the local government for expenses related to regulating renewable energy facilities and maintaining local roads impacted by facility construction.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from denying a medicaid member (member) the ability to purchase primary care services or enter into a direct primary care agreement. A member who purchases direct primary care services from a direct primary health-care provider or enters into a direct primary care agreement must sign a document acknowledging that the direct primary health-care provider is enrolled in the Colorado medical assistance program only as an ordering, prescribing, and referring provider; that the direct primary health-care provider does not accept medicaid payments for the services rendered; that the member cannot submit a claim for medicaid reimbursement for the services rendered by the direct primary health-care provider; and that the member retains the right to receive primary care services from a primary care provider who is enrolled in the Colorado medical assistance program.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

The act establishes a bill of rights for adults subject to guardianship (ward) and details what decisions a court may authorize a guardian to make on behalf of a ward. The act updates the duties of a guardian to include a duty to notify the ward at least 30 days before the ward is permanently moved to a nursing home, mental health institution, or other facility that restricts the ward's ability to leave the facility or have visitors. On or before November 1, 2027, and November 1, 2028, the act requires the state court administrator's office to submit a report detailing the fiscal impact of this act on the judicial department to the joint budget committee, the senate judiciary committee, and the house of representatives judiciary committee, or their successor committees, and requires the state court administrator's office to create the report using existing data sources.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law requires a motor vehicle to be designed for operation on a highway in order to be covered by the "Uniform Motor Vehicle Law", which governs driver's licenses, registrations, and traffic regulation. The bill authorizes the owner of a surplus military vehicle to register the vehicle with the department of revenue and be issued a license plate if:The vehicle complies with the laws governing motor vehicles and traffic;The vehicle uses wheels for movement, weighs less than 16,000 pounds empty weight, has a 20,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, and is not affixed with working mounted firearms; andThe owner signs an affidavit stating that the vehicle will not be driven on roadways for more than 1,500 miles per year.If the vehicle is registered, it may be driven on roadways and the title can be converted from showing off-highway vehicle to highway-use vehicle, but the vehicle must comply with registration provisions, driver's license provisions, and traffic laws. The bill also authorizes surplus military vehicles to operate on the road if they are authorized emergency vehicles. A qualified surplus military vehicle may be registered as a collector's item.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The act requires the declarant of a new planned community or condominium, prior to transfer of control from the declarant to the association of a planned community or condominium, to obtain and pay for a reserve study for the planned community or condominium. The study must estimate the projected costs of maintaining, repairing, or replacing the common elements or property of the planned community or condominium over a 30-year period. The reserve study must be conducted by an independent reserve study professional or other qualified professional with knowledge of industry standards and that has no business relationship with or financial interest in the declarant and is not a affiliate of the declarant. When an association, other than a self-managed association, changes association management companies, the former association management company shall, within 45 days, deliver to the new association management company or the association, at no charge to the association, all association property, records, money, accounts, information, and other items or information specified in the act (property and records). Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the former association management company shall pay the association $250 for each business day that it fails to timely return the association's property and records and is liable for all interest and late fees on late payments made by the association due to the former association management company's failure to turn over the property and records, as well as any other damages incurred by the association. In a civil action to recover the property and records or the payments owed to the association for the former association management company's failure to turn over the property and records, if the court finds that the former association management company's violation was willful, the former association management company shall be liable for treble the association's actual damages, plus reasonable attorney fees and court costs.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act modifies the 'Colorado Public Trustee Act' to:Set the salary of the public trustee in counties where the county treasurer serves as the public trustee to a fixed amount of $12,500 annually to be paid monthly from the county general fund as part of the county's standard payroll process. On a quarterly basis, the public trustee is required to reimburse the county general fund for the monthly salaries from the fees collected by the public trustee or from the public trustee special reserve account.Eliminate the requirement that a public trustee make and file a full statement of all transactions of the office of the public trustee to the board of county commissioners under oath;Repeal the requirement that a public trustee appointed by the governor be subject to the state 'Procurement Code' for any purchase of more than $20,000;Repeal the definition of 'certified copy' and references thereto;Define 'nonmaterial misstatement' as a minor or inconsequential error, inaccuracy, or omission that does not significantly affect the understanding, validity, or enforceability of a document;Clarify the date by which the public trustee or sheriff conducting a foreclosure (officer) must mail the combined notice of sale, right to cure, and right to redeem to persons on an amended mailing list;Clarify that a junior lienor is entitled to cure the default if the junior lienor files with the officer;Specify that an unclaimed remaining amount for which a property is sold at a foreclosure sale that is in excess of the bid amount must either be transferred to the state treasurer for disposition in accordance with the 'Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act' or held by the county treasurer pursuant to the terms of a county resolution regarding unclaimed funds;Add a requirement regarding redemption that specifies that if a lien is assigned, the holder's rights are valid only if the assignment of the lien is duly recorded at least 15 calendar days prior to the date of sale; andSpecify the conditions under which an omitted party's interest may be terminated.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)