6615C3E66BF6279387258C51005F4362 Hearing Summary

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.