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House Health & Human Services

Wednesday, February 4, 2026·2h 35m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Health & Human Services Committee sent two measures to the floor — a bill stripping the state's eugenics-era power to sterilize people with disabilities, over one Republican's no, and a unanimous bill letting occupational therapists perform dry needling — after also advancing a rewritten sunset bill for Colorado's boxing regulators.

Key Actions

·Sterilization Rights of Person with DisabilitiesPassed

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Notable Quotes

House Bill 1040, a bill that strips the government's ability to sterilize people with disabilities against their will or consent.

Meg FroelichThe sponsor's framing of a bill repealing statutory authority for state-ordered sterilization of people with disabilities.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (12)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Lori Goldstein, Lindsay Gilchrist
No (1)Dusty Johnson
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (12)Brandi Bradley, Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Lindsay Gilchrist
Excused (1)Lori Goldstein
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TranscriptPreview
The committee will come to order. Mr. Shadoon, please call the roll. Representatives. Baron Bradfield. Yes. Bradley. Presente. English. Here. Right. Presente. Amric. Excuse. Yesterday I did art Johnson. Here. McCormick. Here. Brighton. Presente. Stuart. Here. Woog. Representative Woog. A Key. Goldstein. Here. Madam Chair. A present. Thank you everyone. Welcome to the Health and Human Services Committee. You can tell we are already going to have a great session. We are here to hear two bills and one sunset. Today we are going to testimony will be three minutes each. In the future, if we have a lot of folks in order to get through, we'll limit it to two minutes. But today will be three minutes. So we are excited about the conversation today and we'll go ahead and get started. Here. Yeah. An OLLS drafter will attend the committee's first sunset hearings. We're here today and provide information about the sunset process. So today we're holding the sunset hearings on the Colorado Boxing Safety Sunset. Thank you. But first a representative office of the Legislative Legal Services here to present on the sunset review process. Welcome. Introduce yourselves and you can proceed. Thank you, Madam Chair. Renee
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