What Colorado lawmakers did in the 2025 session
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Colorado lawmakers introduced more than 650 bills in this year's 120-day session, legislation that makes small tweaks and major changes.
Zoom in: Here's a look at the bills and what they mean for you. The approved legislation will:
Cost of living
💸 Limit undisclosed "junk" fees on goods and services by requiring disclosure before transactions
🚘 Reduce the road safety surcharge on vehicle registrations by $3.70 for two years
🚗 Permit an increase annually for motor vehicle title and registration services to account for inflation but no more than 5% per year.
☁ Allow the state to increase vehicle emissions fees for Front Range drivers
Health care
👶 Block insurance companies from charging for necessary follow-up breast cancer exams and prenatal care checkups.
👼 Protect access to in vitro fertilization and modify regulations on donor banks
🏥 Enshrine access to abortion in the state constitution and allow state-paid abortion care for Medicaid enrollees and state government workers.
🚑 Prevent surprise billing from public ambulances
Criminal justice
🐶 Allow criminal charges against the owner of a dog who seriously injures an animal care worker
🚨 Reduce the CBI backlog of problematic rape testing kits through a $3 million appropriation and new rules related to misconduct
✅ Establish a right for social visitation for prison inmates
⚖ Allow residents 72 years and older to opt out of jury service
🔫 Make thefts of firearms a class 6 felony regardless of their value
✔ Require additional training before the purchase of a semi-automatic firearm
🚨 Protect immigrants in the country illegally by limiting data sharing about their status
📸 Toughen penalties regarding the creation and sharing of intimate digital images
Education
💰 Give colleges and universities the ability to increase resident tuition by 3% and non-resident tuition by 3.5% next year
🍎 Require the state to adopt a new curriculum for Black history that is inclusive and recognizes "complex narratives that connect with contemporary realities"
📱 Require schools to have policies about cellphones in the classroom
🏈 Allow universities to pay collegiate student-athletes for the use of their name, image or likeness
Other
🐕 Give newly established veterinarian assistants the ability to see patients with limited supervision
🩷 Allow a Colorado death certificate to reflect the chosen gender identity of the decedent
🐮 Prohibit cell-cultivated meat from being marketed as a meat product
🚚 Encourage trucks to add tire chains by allowing third parties to offer those services.
📌 Protect against discrimination at the ballot box by codifying current federal protections around voting into state law.
📰 Make it easier to end a subscription by requiring companies to add an online cancellation option
⚽ Require sports betting companies to pay taxes on free bets offered to users
🗳 Make it harder to run future ballot measures
🐈 Prohibit home insurers from discriminating against pet owners and allowing those in public housing to have pets
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect approved legislation will permit an increase of no more than 5% per year for motor vehicle title and registration services (not a $4 per year increase).