Employers, debt collectors, teen sexters and pot growers are among those who have new laws to follow with the dawn of the new year.

The minimum wage bumps up to $10.20 an hour from $9.30, and employees who get tips will see their base pay rise to $7.18 an hour, up from $6.28. This wasn’t the legislature’s doing, however.

In November 2016 election, Colorado’s voters passed Amendment 70, which raises the minimum wage each year until it reaches $12 an hour by 2020. The minimum wage was $8.31 per hour when voters approved the ballot measure with a 55 percent majority.

As usually is the case, the marijuana industry has new rules in its playbook.

The bipartisan House Bill 1220 last session capped the number of plants that can be grown or possessed in a on residential property at 12, unless the local city or county allows more. Medical marijuana patients can get an exemption that allows up to 24.

A first offense carries a fine of up to $1,000 but subsequent offenses and those involving more than 30 plants escalate to a class 3 felony, which can net five years in jail and a $100,000 fine.

Retail pot products also will take on a new look, as new rules take effect to guide labeling and packaging away from an appeal to minors or confusion with non-marijuana-laced candy or cookies, for example.

The packaging rules also will make products harder for young children to get into.

Colorado lawmakers last session made it a class 2 misdemeanor petty offense for teens older than 14 to send or possess lewd images of themselves or other teens, otherwise know as sexting. Offenders can be punished by attending restorative justice programs to learn risks and consequences or pay a $50 fine.

The new law is a go-between that could keep children from facing more serious sex offense or child pornography cases.

Debtors could catch a break in 2018.

Now those who buy uncollected debts will have to keep better records and do a better job of making sure the debt hasn’t been settled before they start calling debtors to collect.

Lawmakers said those in the so-called “zombie debt” game will face investigation by the attorney general if they don’t play by the new rules. Senate Bill 216 also made clear that there is two-year statute of limitations for private debt collections.

Hit-and-run drivers will automatically lose their licenses, if they leave behind injuries or a fatality starting Monday.

Previously, they would have to wait until they went to court. Further, hit-and-run drivers who are impaired might hope to retain their license by not getting a drunk-driving charge, the Colorado State Patrol told lawmakers last session.

The new laws represent most of the last work from the 2017 legislative session. The next session starts Jan. 10.