Mary Young

Creates the Statewide Welcome, Reception, and Integration Grant Program to provide grants to "community-based" organizations that assist illegal migrants with accessing state services.

Creates the 14-member "Black Coloradan Racial Equity Commission" to study the "historical" and "ongoing effects" of slavery and "systemic racism" on black Coloradans.

Increases Colorado's public-school funding for FY 2024-25, raising base per pupil funding by $419.97 to $8,496.38, with total program funding set at $9.7 billion.

Updates the Colorado Potato Seed Act by requiring potato growers to have uncertified seed tested by the Department of Agriculture (CDA) before planting.

Modifies Colorado's assisted-suicide law by allowing advanced-practice nurses to prescribe life-ending medication and reducing the waiting period between oral requests from 15 days to 7 days.

Shrinks the small-group health plan market by lowering the employer size limit from 100 to 50 employees, forcing many businesses into the costlier large-group market.

Creates "bonus payments" to incentivize participation in the Colorado universal preschool provider program.

Requires health benefit plans to cover a continuous 12-month use of over-the-counter or prescription contraceptives.

Provides that a grandparent may overcome the presumption that any parental determination regarding "family time" is in the "best interests of the child" during a custody case, allowing a court to appoint a child's legal representative.

Permits recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.

Proclaims that "it is time for the United States Congress to pass the Equal Rights Amendment."