Colorado Medical Board faces review before scheduled repeal in 2035

The law schedules the Colorado Medical Board and its governing medical practice law for repeal, with review beforehand. This covers the Colorado Medical Board and article 240, the law governing medical practice. The review includes physicians' responsibilities when recommending medical marijuana. The act takes effect after the 90-day period following legislative adjournment, stated as August 12, 2026, if adjournment was May 13. A timely referendum petition delays challenged provisions until voter approval and the governor's declaration of the vote.

The Colorado Medical Board may issue licenses limited to administrative medical work. Physicians must hold or have held an unrestricted Colorado medical license, or meet other licensing requirements set by the board. Applicants must pay the required fee and meet other board requirements. Allowed work includes research, safety planning, and teaching without direct patient care. Patient contact, treatment, test orders, and prescribing are prohibited. Other nonadministrative work requires specific board approval. Holders must carry required medical liability insurance and follow renewal, reinstatement, and reactivation rules. They are exempt from continuing medical education requirements, and the board must adopt needed rules. The board may issue administrative licenses on or after January 1, 2027.

Licensed natural medicine facilitators may provide services within their license's scope without a medical or physician training license. The exemption covers only services within the natural medicine facilitator license's scope. Facilitators must hold the separate state license authorizing them to perform and supervise natural medicine services.

The board may grant temporary licenses to eligible foreign teaching physicians and renew teaching licenses when required conditions continue. Temporary licenses cover applicants who meet the foreign teaching physician qualifications but are not offered the rank of associate professor or higher. Temporary licenses require board approval and direct supervision by an academic faculty member ranked associate professor or higher. Renewal follows general licensing rules and requires the board to confirm that applicable qualifications will continue. Licenses remain valid only while holders serve on a medical school's academic staff. The board may require an interview and withdraw a license for leaving that staff or for unprofessional conduct.

The Colorado Medical Board president may serve as a full member of its licensing panel at panel meetings. This applies to the board president's participation in licensing panel meetings.