Text of CO HB 1145 (2025)

First Regular Session Seventy-fifth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO INTRODUCED LLS NO. 25-0595.01 Shelby Ross x4510 HOUSE BILL 25-1145 House Committees Senate Committees Judiciary A BILL FOR AN ACT CONCERNING PROHIBITING THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF AN 101 OUT-OF-STATE MINOR INTO COLORADO FOR THE PURPOSE OF 102 ASSISTING THE MINOR IN OBTAINING CERTAIN REPRODUCTIVE 103 HEALTH-CARE SERVICES. 104 Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at http://leg.colorado.gov.) A person, including a corporation or governmental agency, commits human trafficking of a minor for an abortion or gender-affirming health-care services if the person transports an out-of-state minor who is HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Bottoms, SENATE SPONSORSHIP (None), Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment. Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law. Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. under 18 years of age into Colorado for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining an abortion or gender-affirming health-care services. The bill classifies human trafficking of a minor for an abortion or gender-affirming health-care services as a class 2 felony. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 1 SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 18-3-504.5 as 2 follows: 3 18-3-504.5. Human trafficking of a minor for abortion or 4 gender-affirming health-care services. (1) (a) A PERSON COMMITS 5 HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF A MINOR FOR AN ABORTION OR 6 GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH-CARE SERVICES IF THE PERSON TRANSPORTS 7 AN OUT-OF-STATE MINOR INTO COLORADO FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING 8 THE MINOR IN OBTAINING AN ABORTION, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 25-6-402, 9 OR GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH-CARE SERVICES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 10 12-30-121. 11 (b) HUMAN TRAFFICKING OF A MINOR FOR AN ABORTION OR 12 GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH-CARE SERVICES IS A CLASS 2 FELONY. 13 (2) IN ANY PROSECUTION BROUGHT PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (1) 14 OF THIS SECTION, IT IS NOT A DEFENSE THAT: 15 (a) THE MINOR CONSENTED TO BEING TRANSFERRED BY THE 16 DEFENDANT FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING AN ABORTION OR 17 GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH-CARE SERVICES; 18 (b) THE MINOR CONSENTED TO OBTAINING AN ABORTION OR 19 GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH-CARE SERVICES; 20 (c) THE DEFENDANT DID NOT KNOW THE MINOR'S AGE OR 21 REASONABLY BELIEVED THE MINOR TO BE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR 22 OLDER; OR 23 HB25-1145 -2- (d) THE MINOR OR ANOTHER PERSON REPRESENTED THE MINOR TO 1 BE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. 2 SECTION 2. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act 3 takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the 4 ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly; except 5 that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V 6 of the state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this 7 act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take 8 effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in 9 November 2026 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the 10 official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor. 11 HB25-1145 -3-