HB 25-1161

House Bill 25-1161, which has been signed into law in Colorado, requires retailers to label new gas-fueled stoves with a yellow warning label that highlights the potential health risks associated with using these stoves indoors. The label must include a link or QR code directing consumers to a state website for more information on the health impacts of gas stoves. Retailers who sell gas stoves without this label can be penalized under Colorado’s consumer protection laws. This law affects anyone in Colorado looking to purchase a new gas stove, either online or in-store.

Official Summary

The act requires the department of public health and environment (department) to establish a page on the department's public website with credible, evidence-based information on the health impacts of gas-fueled stoves. The act prohibits a retailer from selling, attempting to sell, or offering to sell, in a store, a new gas-fueled stove to a consumer in the state unless a yellow adhesive label on the display model for the gas-fueled stove bears the phrase "Understand the air quality implications of having an indoor gas stove." Following this phrase, the adhesive label must include a website link or a quick response (QR) code or other machine-readable code that a potential consumer may use to access the web page established by the department with information on the health impacts of gas-fueled stoves. Before transacting an online sale of a new gas-fueled stove to an address in the state, a retailer is required to post the content of the adhesive label on the internet website where the online sale occurs. The act specifies that a retailer that violates the requirements of the act commits a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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