The primary bill sponsors, Representatives Froelich and Brown, introduced House Bill 25-1259 to the House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill creates a right to in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive procedures. The bill also makes changes to current requirements for gamete banks and fertility clinics (donor banks) including removing the requirement that donor banks must continually update donor information; eliminating the requirement that a person conceived from gamete donor cannot communicate about the gamete donor with third parties; repealing provisions related to holding donor records in the event of donor bank dissolution and removes the requirement to tell parents about a donor’s medical history or others who were conceived using the same donor; requiring donor banks to draft materials for individuals prior to donating or receiving gametes, instead of the Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE); and making it optional instead of required for donor recipients to notify donor banks about live births using donated gametes. The bill also changes donor bank licensure renewal from annually to every five years; removes the requirement for CDPHE to investigate out-of-state donor banks; and revises penalties for noncompliance, replacing the automatic $20,000 per-day fine with a civil penalty to be determined by the State Board of Health following a hearing.

Previous committee discussion was held on 03/04/2025.

The bill sponsors provided closing comments on the bill.

Members of the committee provided closing comments on the bill.