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Colorado expands its Cottage Foods Act, letting more home-made foods reach neighbors

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Colorado signed a 2026 law expanding the scope of the Cottage Foods Act. In 2025 the state also enacted a right-to-try law for individualized treatments and a labeling law for cell-cultivated meat. A bill to permanently cut the state income tax was postponed indefinitely in committee.

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SupportHB1033Signed into law

Expand the Colorado Cottage Foods Act

Expands the scope of the Colorado Cottage Foods Act and makes an appropriation.

Home cooks and small producers should be free to sell safe, home-made food to their neighbors.

Last action: Governor Signed (Jun 4, 2026)
Food freedom
SupportHB1270Signed into law

Right to try individualized treatments

Grants eligible patients the right to try individualized investigational medical treatments.

Patients and their doctors, not the state, should decide which treatments to try.

Last action: Governor Signed (May 19, 2025)
Bodily autonomyMedical freedom
SupportHB1203Signed into law

Clearly label cell-cultivated meat

Prohibits misbranding cell-cultivated meat as a meat product and requires it to be clearly labeled as cell-cultivated.

Families deserve to know whether the meat they buy came from an animal or a lab.

Last action: Governor Signed (Apr 17, 2025)
Food freedom
WatchHB1027Signed into law

Update disease control statutes

Modifies the state statutes governing disease control.

Changes to disease control law can affect individual medical choices, so CODR is watching how it is applied.

Last action: Governor Signed (Apr 10, 2025)
Medical freedom
SupportSB138Failed

Permanently reduce the state income tax

Would have made permanent reductions to the state income tax. Postponed indefinitely in a Senate committee in February 2025.

Families should keep more of what they earn.

Last action: Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely (Feb 27, 2025)
Lower taxes
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