HB 17-1240

HB 17-1240 is a Colorado bill that moves certain laws related to public health from one part of the state's legal code to another. Specifically, it shifts regulations about volunteer health workers during emergencies and rules concerning treatments for cancer from Title 12 to Title 25. This change affects how these specific health-related practices are governed by the Department of Public Health and Environment in Colorado. Since the bill has been signed into law, these changes have already taken effect, meaning that the relevant laws are now located and enforced under their new sections in Title 25.

Official Summary

Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. To implement the initial recommendations of the study, the bill relocates the following laws: Article 29.3 of title 12, pursuant to which the department of public health and environment (department) regulates volunteer health practitioners and services provided by volunteer health practitioners during a declared emergency, to part 6 of article 1.5 of title 25 ( section 1 of the bill ); and Article 30 of title 12, pursuant to which the department regulates persons that represent that a drug, medicine, compound, or device is of value in the diagnosis, treatment, alleviation, or cure of cancer, and the drugs, medicines, compounds, or devices so represented, to article 48 of title 25 ( section 2 ). Section 3 repeals the articles where these laws were previously codified.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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