By Colleen Enos | Commentary, Christian Home Educators of Colorado
The CHEC 2025 Homeschool Freedom End-of-Session Report is now published and linked in this blog post. It is a sampling of twenty-eight bills from the legislative session — a total of 657 bills were introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate, with an additional 75 House and Senate Resolutions. This was a large volume of legislation for the 120-day annual session.
The report is divided into six sections: Home Education, Education, Parental Rights, Life, Families/Healthcare, and Religious Liberty. Several bills could appear under more than one section, but they were placed under the most pertinent category. Also included is a Legislative Voting Grid for twenty-four of the bills, since four of the bills did not have a vote taken on them outside of their respective committee hearing. Feel free to use this grid to check how your representative and senator voted on any bill listed that you are concerned about.
Targeted focus was clearly placed on attacking parental rights, curtailing free speech, and undermining religious liberty. Bills like HB25-1252, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Regulation of Abortion Clinics, which would have required the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to license, regulate, and inspect second- and third-trimester abortion clinics, and HB25-1251, Parental Consent to Treatment of a Minor, which would have required parental consent for medical or mental health treatment of a minor seventeen years old or younger, were unceremoniously killed.
However, HB25-1312, Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals, which added “chosen name” and “gender expression” to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), and HB25-1109, Gender Identity Certificate of Death, which directs the Office of Vital Statistics to add a “gender” field to the death certificate, were both passed.
READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT CHRISTIAN HOME EDUCATORS OF COLORADO
Colleen Enos is a longtime homeschooling mom of eight, now graduated, and a grandmother of four (soon to be five). Married to her husband Mark for 38 years, she’s spent the last 17 years coaching speech and debate and now serves as the Christian Home Educators of Colorado’s (CHEC) Director of Government Relations, advocating for homeschool freedom at the state legislature. Enos writes a column post twice each month for the CHEC blog. Reach her at [email protected].
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