SB24-198 Summary

• Corrects the spelling of "psilocin" (formerly "psilocyn") throughout Colorado's natural medicine statutes in multiple sections covering insurance, criminal law, and regulatory definitions.

• Grants the Director of the Division of Professions and Occupations authority to approve facilitator education and training programs, establish curricula standards, and evaluate out-of-state educational programs for licensure purposes under Article 170 of Title 12.

• Expands distribution authority allowing natural medicine cultivation facilities and product manufacturers to transfer regulated natural medicine to licensed facilitators and healing centers, and permits healing centers to transfer products to facilitators.

• Authorizes natural medicine testing facilities to operate at the same location as regulated marijuana testing facilities, clarifying facility location requirements for licensed natural medicine businesses.

• Exempts state-approved natural medicine facilitator education and training programs from Colorado's general educational institution regulations under Article 64 of Title 23.