Sunset Colorado Medical Board

      Sunset Process - House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill implements recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its 2025 sunset review and report on the Colorado medical board (board). Specifically:

• Sections 1 and 6 of the bill continue the board for 9 years to September 1, 2035;
• Section 2 exempts from the practice of medicine for which a license is required an individual who is facilitating natural medicine services within the scope of a natural medicine facilitator license;
• Section 3 changes the license renewal period for a distinguished foreign teaching physician from annual renewal to a renewal period determined by the board, so long as the physician is still serving on the academic staff of a medical school;
• Section 4 authorizes the president of the board to serve as a full member of the board's licensing panel for licensing panel meetings; and
• Section 5 authorizes the board, on and after January 1, 2027, to issue an administrative license to a physician who provides certain services that are purely administrative in nature, such as research design and analysis and other roles that require a medical license, but that do not involve treating patients or prescribing medication. A physician with an administrative license is exempted from continuing medical education requirements.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)