HB 18-1121

House Bill 18-1121, now signed into law in Colorado, requires state-funded higher education institutions to report if they have been involved in any way with the use of aborted fetal tissue for research or profit. If an institution admits to such activities, it will lose all state funding for the following year. This bill affects public universities and colleges that rely on state funds and aims to prevent them from participating in practices related to aborted human body parts. Since the bill is signed, these institutions are now legally required to comply with its reporting requirements starting this December.

Official Summary

Each higher education institution that receives funding from the state must file a verified report each December 1 with the joint budget committee stating whether or not the institution engaged, directly or indirectly, in the harvesting, trafficking, purchasing, or selling of aborted human body parts in the previous year. If a higher education institution files a report affirming that the institution engaged, directly or indirectly, in the harvesting, trafficking, purchasing, or selling of aborted human body parts, the general assembly shall not appropriate any state funding to that institution in the next fiscal year.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) , Read More