4 CCR 745-1.11 - PROTECTIONS FOR PROVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE IN COLORADO
This Rule is promulgated pursuant to Executive Order D 2022 032, and sections 25-6-401 et seq., 12-310-103(4), and 12-20-204, C.R.S.
A. Definitions, for purposes of this Rule, are as follows:
1. "Applicant" means as
defined in section 12-20-102(2), C.R.S.
2. "Assisting in the
provision reproductive health care" means aiding, abetting or complicity in the provision of reproductive health care.
3. "Civil judgment" means a final court decision and order resulting from a civil lawsuit.
4. "Criminal judgment" means a guilty verdict, a plea of guilty, a plea of nolo contendere, or a deferred judgment
or sentence.
5. "Provision of reproductive health care," includes but is not limited to, transportation
for reproductive health care, referrals for reproductive health care and related services, funding or assisting with payment of reproductive health
care, prescribing, shipping or dispensing medications for reproductive health care in accordance with state and federal law, all options and mental
health counseling and treatment related to reproductive health care. The "provision of reproductive health care" also includes all treatment
contemplated in the definition of section 25-6-402(4), C.R.S.
6. "Registrant" means
as defined in section 12-20-102(12), C.R.S.
7. "Regulator" means
as defined in section 12-20-102(14), C.R.S.
8. "Reproductive
health care" means as defined in section 25-6-402(4), C.R.S.
B. The
regulator shall not deny registration to an applicant or impose disciplinary action against an individual's registration based solely on the
applicant or registrant's provision of or assistance in the provision of reproductive health care in this state or any other state or U.S. territory,
so long as the care provided was consistent with generally accepted standards of practice as defined in Colorado law and did not otherwise violate
Colorado law.
C. The regulator shall not deny registration to an applicant or impose disciplinary action
against an individual's registration based solely on a civil or criminal judgment against the applicant or registrant arising from the provision of,
or assistance in the provision of reproductive health care in this state or any other state or U.S. territory, so long as the care provided was
consistent with generally accepted standards of practice and did not otherwise violate Colorado law.
D.
The regulator shall not deny registration to an applicant or impose disciplinary action against an individual's registration based solely on a
professional disciplinary action or any other sanction against the applicant's or registrant's professional registration in this, or any other state
or U.S. territory so long as the professional disciplinary action is based solely on the applicant's or registrant's provision of, or assistance in
the provision of, reproductive health care and the care provided was consistent with generally accepted standards of practice and did not otherwise
violate Colorado law.
E. The regulator shall not deny registration to an applicant or impose disciplinary
action against an individual's registration based solely on the registrant's own personal effort to seek or obtain reproductive health care for
themselves. The regulator shall not deny registration to an applicant or impose disciplinary action against an individual's registration based solely
on a civil or criminal judgment against the applicant or registrant arising from the individual's own personal receipt of reproductive health care in
this state or any other state or U.S. territory.
Notes
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