These new Colorado laws go into effect Aug. 7

DENVER (KDVR) — Nearly 200 laws passed by the Colorado General Assembly this year are going into effect on Wednesday.

They range from a new law allowing telehealth in veterinary medicine to one allowing motorcycle lane filtering.

FOX31 has put together a list of five laws you may want to know about.

Telehealth veterinary services

HB24-1048, Providing Veterinary Services Through Telehealth, does exactly what it says: It allows veterinarians in the state to provide services to animals through telehealth.

Pet owners will still have to go in for an in-person physical exam with at least one licensed veterinarian at a practice to establish a relationship. After that, any licensed veterinarian at a practice will be able to provide services to the animal through telehealth.

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Veterinarians will also be allowed to refer clients to veterinary specialists who will also be allowed to provide telehealth services without another in-person exam.

Warning signs on private land

There is already a law protecting landowners from liability if people use their lands for recreational purposes, with an exception for landowners who show a willful or malicious failure to guard or warn people about a known danger.

SB24-058 specifies that those exceptions will not apply if the landowner posts a warning sign that describes the danger at the primary access point of the land.

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It also requires anyone who accesses private land for recreation purposes to stay on the designated trail, route, area or roadway unless the owner specifically allows otherwise.

Update to consumer protections

Coloradans might notice slightly higher prices when picking out concert tickets online come Aug. 7, but not for the reason they might think.

HB24-1378 adds a few new consumer protections for event ticket sales. One of these new provisions requires ticket prices to include all fees and taxes upfront. This means the full price, fees included, has to be shown at all stages of the ticket-buying process.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre has already announced that it’s updating its ticket-buying process to reflect the new law.

The law also bans the use of automated bots to buy more tickets than most people would be able to in order to resell them and bans venues from increasing the price of a ticket after someone selects it unless their buying window times out.

Lane filtering

SB24-079 legalizes the practice of “lane filtering” by motorcycles in the state.

FOX31 has already done a deep dive into what the new law does and does not allow.

Vehicle lemon law

Colorado already has a motor vehicle lemon law, but SB24-192 adds a few new protections to it.

This includes expanding the law to include motor vehicles affected by “safety-based nonconformities” and expanding the amount of time someone has to inform a seller of a defective car to within the car’s first 24,000 miles or two years, whichever is shorter.

Other notable laws

Here are a few more laws going into effect that might be worth looking into:

• HB24-1017 – Bill of Rights for Foster Youth

• HB24-1233 – Homeowners’ Association Delinquency Payments Enforcement Procedures

• SB24-034 – Increase Access to School-Based Health Care

• SB24-134 – Operation of Home-Based Businesses

• HB24-1285 – Student Weight-Based Bullying Prevention

• HB24-1280 – Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program

The next batch of laws go into effect on Sept. 1.

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