2026 Rated Bills
Cut Positions on 2026 Proposed Legislation, updated every Monday evening during the session.
NOTE: CUT continues its objection to the inappropriate use of the Safety Clause.
CUT All Rated Bills 2026
| Bill Number | Name | Week Rated | Description | CUT Position | CUT Comment | SC | Bill Progress | Last Action | Action Date | Sponsor List | Versions | Votes | State Link | Fiscal Note Link |
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| HB1001 | Housing Developments on Qualifying Properties | 02/02/2026 | The bill requires a subject jurisdiction, on or after December 31, 2027, to allow a residential development to be constructed on a qualifying property that does not contain an exempt parcel, subject to an administrative approval process. A qualifying property is real property that contains no more than 5 acres of land and is owned by: ! A nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history of providing affordable housing; ! A nonprofit organization that provides public transit; ! A nonprofit organization that has entered into an agreement with another nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history of providing affordable housing, provided that the agreement requires the nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history of providing affordable housing to develop a residential development on the property; ! A school district; ! A state college or university; ! A housing authority; or ! A local or regional transit district or a regional transportation authority serving one or more counties. If a subject jurisdiction requests, as part of an initial development application, that a nonprofit organization with a demonstrated history of providing affordable housing provide documentation that it meets required criteria, the nonprofit organization shall provide the documentation. A subject jurisdiction shall not: ! Disallow construction of a residential development on a qualifying property on the basis of height if the tallest structure in the residential development is no more than 3 stories or 45 feet tall; ! Disallow construction of a residential development on a qualifying property on the basis of height if the tallest structure in the residential development complies with the height-related standards for the zoning district in which the residential development will be built or any zoning district that is contiguous to the qualifying property on which the residential development will be built; ! Disallow construction of a residential development on a qualifying property based on the number of dwelling units that the residential development will contain, except in accordance with standards listed in the bill; or ! Apply standards to a residential development on a qualifying property that are more restrictive than the standards the subject jurisdiction applies to similar housing constructed within the subject jurisdiction, including standards related to structure setbacks from property lines; lot coverage or open space; on-site parking requirements; numbers of bedrooms in a multifamily residential development; on-site landscaping, screening, and buffering requirements; or minimum dwelling units per acre. Provided that the uses are allowed conditionally or by right within the zoning district in which a qualifying property is located, a subject jurisdiction shall allow the following uses in a residential development on a qualifying property: ! Child care; and ! The provision of recreational, social, or educational services provided by community organizations for use by the residents of the residential development and the surrounding community. The bill requires the owner of a qualifying property to notify the county assessor that a subject jurisdiction has allowed the construction of a residential development on a qualifying property within the county. | NO | This bill requires local governments to allow residential development (including multi-story buildings) on qualifying properties owned by certain non-profit organizations, school districts, state colleges or universities, housing authorities, or a transit district or transportation authority. This proposed legislation usurps the role and responsibility of local governments to control land use and property development. CUT opposes this overreach of State Government and the use of a Safety Clause to shut down potential voter objections. | Crossed Over | Senate Second Reading Calendar (07:30:00 3/11/2026 Senate Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Julie Gonzales (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Sean Camacho (D), Regina English (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Jacqueline Phillips (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Emily Sirota (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Steven Woodrow (D), Yara Zokaie (D) | 3 | 18 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1001 | ||
| HB1002 | Provider Participation in Health Insurance | 02/09/2026 | If a health-care provider has not submitted a claim for a period of at least 6 months, the bill requires a commercial insurance carrier (carrier) to contact the provider to confirm the provider's participation in the carrier's provider network and to determine whether the provider is accepting new patients. The bill includes mental health providers and substance use disorder providers as providers who may participate in a carrier's provider network and expedites the credentialing process for these providers. The bill requires carriers to admit prelicensed providers into the carrier's network and to reimburse prelicensed providers for services rendered when provided under the supervision of a mental health provider or substance use disorder provider. The bill requires a clinical social worker to complete 3,000 hours of post-master's supervised clinical practice over a period of between 2 and 5 years in order to be licensed. The bill requires a managed care entity to contact providers enrolled in medicaid who have not submitted a claim for at least 6 months to confirm the provider's participation and to determine whether the provider is accepting new patients. The bill expedites the medicaid enrollment process for mental health providers and substance use disorder providers who apply to participate in the medicaid program. | NO | CUT opposes this bill as it will impose health insurance carriers with additional requirements and regulations to verify provider network participation which will increase costs to consumers with little or no apparent increase in service. CUT considers this to be an improper role of government. | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services | 03/10/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Lindsay Gilchrist (D)*, Matt Ball (D)*, Byron Pelton (R)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Meghan Lukens (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Gretchen Rydin (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Katie Stewart (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Brianna Titone (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1002 | ||
| HB1003 | Small Business Recovery Modifications | 02/02/2026 | Currently, the purpose of the small business recovery and resiliency loan program (program) is to support the state's recovery from the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 by supporting Colorado small businesses recovering from COVID-19. The bill modifies the purpose of the program to supporting Colorado's small businesses through the program. Currently, money in the small business recovery and resiliency fund (fund) may be used for specified purposes if the money from the fund is matched by money provided by other sources at a ratio of $1 of money from the fund to $4 of money from other sources. The bill changes this ratio to $1 from the fund to $1 from other sources. Once the money from the fund is matched by other sources and comprises a tranche, the bill specifies that the money from the tranche may be used for loans or to purchase participation interest in loans for businesses as determined by the program oversight board (board), including working capital and the purchase of equipment. Currently, principal and interest payments on a loan may be deferred for up to one year for circumstances of hardship created by the COVID-19 pandemic or based on ongoing economic conditions. The bill allows a deferral for circumstances of hardship and repeals the requirement that the hardship must be caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or ongoing economic conditions. Currently, each tranche is subject to an initial period of time, as determined by the board, in which a portion of the money from the fund is allocated to each county, as determined by the board, based on specified criteria or a statutory formula. Currently, the money allocated to each county must be reserved for applications from eligible borrowers located in that county for the initial period of time. The bill repeals the requirement that the money is reserved for the initial period of time and that the money is allocated to a county. The bill requires each tranche of loan funding to be used to fund businesses across the state over the duration of the program. The program will track the distribution of capital to counties. The bill requires the state treasurer to transfer $5 million from the fund to the Colorado startup loan program fund on June 30, 2026. | NO | This bill modifies the Small Business Recovery and Resiliency Loan Program by amending its stated purpose (from Covid recovery to broader support of small business), lowering the Small Business Recovery and Resiliency Fund’s matching ratio, and repealing conditions of loan repayment and funding allocation. The bill also requires the State Treasurer to transfer $5.0 million from the Small Business Recovery and Resiliency Fund to the Colorado Startup Loan Program Fund. Loaning money to businesses is NOT the proper role of government. COVID is over and leftover relief funds should be returned to the General Fund or to the taxpayers. There is no reason for the Safety Clause. | Crossed Over | Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 03/10/2026 | Sean Camacho (D)*, Naquetta Ricks (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Michael Carter (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Regina English (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Matt Martinez (D), Tisha Mauro (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Katie Stewart (D), Brianna Titone (D), Alex Valdez (D), Steven Woodrow (D) | 3 | 6 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1003 | ||
| HB1004 | Continuation of Child Care Contribution Tax Credit | 02/02/2026 | Under current law, for income tax years commencing prior to January 1, 2028, a taxpayer who makes a qualifying monetary contribution to promote child care in the state is allowed an income tax credit that is equal to 50% of the total value of the contribution, not to exceed $100,000. The bill extends this tax credit for 10 years. | NO | This bill extends the childcare contribution state income tax deduction (50% of up to a $100k contribution yearly) through 2037. Qualifying contributions include those to child-care facilities, schools, or programs, as well as to provider training programs and grant or loan programs that assist parents with childcare costs. This bill gives rich folks a large tax break for donating to childcare facilities, but this does not guarantee lower childcare costs. A more direct and non-discriminatory way to help families with childcare costs would be to just lower income taxes. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 02/05/2026 | Jarvis Caldwell (R)*, Julie McCluskie (D)*, James Coleman (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Mary Bradfield (R)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Lindsay Gilchrist (D)*, Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Meghan Lukens (D)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Katie Stewart (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Brianna Titone (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Scott Bright (R)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D)*, Byron Pelton (R)*, Rod Pelton (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1004 | ||
| HB1005 | Worker Protection Collective Bargaining | 02/02/2026 | The bill makes the following changes to the "Labor Peace Act": ! Specifies that employees' right to bargain collectively includes the right to bargain collectively concerning any mandatory subject of bargaining; ! Eliminates the requirement for a second election to negotiate a union security agreement clause in the collective bargaining process; ! Declares that it is not an unfair labor practice for an employer to refuse to agree to a lawful proposal made by the exclusive representative of the employees, or for the exclusive representative of the employees to refuse to agree to a lawful proposal made by the employer, concerning a mandatory subject of bargaining if the refusing party has bargained in good faith with the other party; and ! Requires employers and employees, through their exclusive representative, to bargain in good faith. | NO | This bill eliminates the requirement under the Labor Peace Act to conduct a second election to negotiate a union security agreement clause in the collective bargaining process. This bill increases the power of unions and lessens the power of those workers who do not want to join the union or pay dues even though they are non-members. It also makes it more difficult for Colorado to become a right-to-work state like almost all our surrounding states which puts us at a competitive disadvantage for attracting employers. | In Committee | House Third Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/9/2026 House Floor) | 03/09/2026 | Jennifer Bacon (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Jessie Danielson (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Monica Duran (D)*, Cecelia Espenoza (D)*, Meg Froelich (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Lindsay Gilchrist (D)*, Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Jamie Jackson (D)*, Sheila Lieder (D)*, Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Meghan Lukens (D)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Tisha Mauro (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Jacqueline Phillips (D)*, Gretchen Rydin (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Katie Stewart (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Brianna Titone (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Julie Gonzales (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Tom Sullivan (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Michael Carter (D), Regina English (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Junie Joseph (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Amy Paschal (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Lesley Smith (D), Tammy Story (D), Jenny Willford (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1005 | ||
| HB1011 | Transfers of Certain Pet Animals | Under current law, a pet store in Colorado is permitted to sell or offer for sale dogs or cats if the pet store abides by certain requirements. The bill removes the existing permission so that, beginning January 1, 2027, a pet store is no longer permitted to sell, lease, offer to sell or lease, barter, auction, or otherwise transfer ownership of a dog or cat. Nothing prohibits a pet store from providing space for the display of dogs or cats available for adoption if the pet store does not collect a fee from the display and if certain requirements are met. The bill defines "broker" as a person that, for profit, sells, leases, offers to sell or lease, barters, auctions, or otherwise transfers ownership of, in person or online, a pet animal bred by another person. The bill states that a broker is not permitted to sell, lease, offer to sell or lease, barter, auction, or otherwise transfer ownership of a dog or cat. The bill clarifies that the following are still permitted: ! The sale, transfer, or adoption of an animal, including a law enforcement animal, to a governmental agency; ! The sale, transfer, or adoption of a guide, signal, or service dog; ! The sale, transfer, or adoption of a dog or cat by an animal shelter or pet animal rescue; ! The sale or transfer of a dog or cat by the original breeder of the dog or cat; ! The sale or transfer of a dog or cat by, or on behalf of, the bona fide owner that is not the original breeder of the dog or cat to a new owner, so long as the bona fide owner does not sell or transfer a dog or cat more than three instances per each calendar year; and ! The sale, transfer, or adoption of a dog or cat by a health-related research facility. | NO | This bill prohibits the sale of cats or dogs by pet stores unless they are displayed on behalf of a licensed animal shelter or rescue. This represents improper government intrusion into private business. This bill oversteps the role of government and then insults voters by use of the Safety Clause. | Crossed Over | Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee Hearing (14:00:00 3/24/2026 Old Supreme Court) | 03/24/2026 | Monica Duran (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Robert Rodriguez (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Kyle Brown (D), Regina English (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Junie Joseph (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Gretchen Rydin (D), Alex Valdez (D) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1011 | |||
| HB1013 | Ratio Utility Billing Systems | 02/02/2026 | The bill authorizes landlords to use a ratio utility billing system to allocate utility charges for a residential premises to individual tenants. The landlord may charge tenants a utility bill using a ratio utility billing system if the landlord meets certain requirements, such as: ! The aggregate amount billed to all tenants does not exceed the amount charged by the utility for service to the entire residential premises; ! The landlord does not apply a fee or other charge to the tenant in addition to the actual charges from the utility provider; ! The utility costs for common areas or shared facilities are excluded from the charges to the tenant; and ! The landlord clearly discloses the method of allocation for the dwelling unit in the tenant's rental agreement. | NO | The bill allows landlords to divide utility costs among tenants. The bill narrows permissible charges allowed under HB25-1090. This bill disallows landlords from charging tenants for utilities related to common areas. CUT'S opposition is based on the improper role of government interfering in private business contracts, the exclusion of utility costs for common areas, and the improper use of the Safety Clause. | Crossed Over | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Javier Mabrey (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Naquetta Ricks (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Kyle Brown (D), Chad Clifford (D), Cecelia Espenoza (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Amy Paschal (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Tammy Story (D), Yara Zokaie (D), James Coleman (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Janice Marchman (D), Tom Sullivan (D), Katie Wallace (D) | 5 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1013 | ||
| HB1014 | Extend Colorado Job Growth Incentive Tax Credit | Under current law, the Colorado job growth incentive tax credit (credit) may only be allowed by the economic development commission (commission) through state income tax year 2026. The bill amends the Colorado job growth incentive tax credit to authorize the commission to allow new credit awards through state income tax year 2034. | NO | This bill extends the Job Growth Incentive Income Tax Credit through income tax year 2034. The bill extends a program for 8 years that gives tax credits to only certain types of businesses that provide increased employment. This is discriminatory treatment that provides tax credits to some businesses and not to others. It is not the proper role of government to pick winners and losers. Let the program sunset. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 02/23/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Lisa Frizell (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1014 | |||
| HB1015 | Colorado Homeless Contribution Tax Credit Extension | 02/09/2026 | Under current law, the Colorado homeless contribution tax credit (credit) may only be claimed through state income tax year 2026. The bill amends the credit to allow taxpayers to claim the credit through state income tax year 2030. | NO | This bill extends the Colorado homeless contribution tax credit through 2030. The contributed money goes to NPOs (Non-Profit Organizations). DOLA (Department of Local Affairs) bureaucrats will have oversight, management, and verification of donors and NPOs thereby picking winners and losers. In a deficit budget year this bill will increase state government by 1.56 FTEs (Full Time Employees). There was NO mention of the success rate of the NPOs in getting the homeless out of the homeless cycle nor any hard data regarding outcomes. This bill is yet another puzzle piece of the Homeless Industrial Complex. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 02/12/2026 | Karen McCormick (D)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1015 | ||
| HB1016 | Continuation of Open Educational Resources Program | 02/02/2026 | The bill extends the repeal date of the open educational resources grant program and the Colorado open educational resources council (council) from November 1, 2026, to November 1, 2031. The bill increases the membership of the council from 12 to 15 members. Under current law, the department of higher education prepares and submits an annual report regarding open educational resources in the state. The bill extends the requirement for this report from its current end date of December 1, 2026, to December 31, 2031. | NO | The bill extends the expiration date of the Colorado Open Educational Resources Council by 5-years from November 1, 2026 to November 1, 2031 and adds 3-members to the council. This is a non-essential program providing services which have no measurable benefits. The state budget is in a deficit and this bill proposes to increase spending by $758,000. Let the board sunset as scheduled. | In Committee | House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 01/29/2026 | Jacqueline Phillips (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1016 | ||
| HB1018 | Long-term Care Services for Nursing Home Residents | The bill requires an individual being discharged from a nursing facility to be presumptively eligible for long-term services and supports under medicaid. The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to determine presumptive eligibility and requires county departments of human or social services (county departments) to set up the long-term services and supports for an individual being discharged from a nursing facility prior to the individual's discharge date. The state department is required to submit an annual report to the state auditor and post the report on the state department's website detailing information about the individuals discharged from a nursing facility and the associated presumptive eligibility determinations. The bill establishes remedial measures against a county department if the county department fails to set up long-term services and supports for the individual. The bill establishes remedial measures against a nursing facility that fails to discharge an individual on the discharge date due to a failure within the nursing facility's control or fails to cooperate in good faith with the state department to ensure long-term care services and supports are in place for the individual. | NO | The bill requires an individual being discharged from a nursing facility to be presumptively eligible for long-term services and supports under Medicaid. The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to determine presumptive eligibility and requires county departments of human or social services (county departments) to set up the long-term services and supports for an individual being discharged from a nursing facility prior to the individual's discharge date. CUT’s objection is the requirement of presumptive eligibility, and the associated expense. Healthcare is the biggest driver of our current budget woes, and blindly spending more just fuels that fire. | In Committee | House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/17/2026 | Jamie Jackson (D)*, Junie Joseph (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)* | 1 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1018 | |||
| HB1021 | Second Amendment Protection Act | The bill repeals various state laws related to firearms and other weapons. Specifically, the bill repeals provisions concerning: ! Unlawfully carrying a firearm at a polling location or drop box offense; ! The presumption that an individual engages in election-related intimidation if the individual carries a visible firearm, imitation firearm, or toy firearm while interacting with or observing specified election activities; ! Firearm industry standards of responsible conduct enacted in Senate Bill 23-168, enacted in 2023, and the bill restores the firearms product liability provisions that existed prior to the enactment of Senate Bill 23-168; ! Payment processing for retail sales of firearms; ! Designating as peace officers the following personnel of the firearms dealer division within the department of revenue: The director, deputy directors, agents in charge, criminal investigator supervisors, and criminal investigators; ! Including in a mandatory criminal protection order a requirement for a defendant to relinquish firearms and ammunition; ! The classification of a rapid-fire device as a dangerous weapon; ! Prohibitions on knowingly carrying a firearm in specified government buildings and licensed child care centers; ! Unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon; ! Unlawfully possessing explosive, incendiary, or other dangerous devices in certain legislative buildings; ! Unlawfully carrying a firearm at a licensed child care center; a public or private elementary, middle, junior high, high, or vocational school; or a public or private college or university; ! Requirements to store a firearm, including in a vehicle; ! The requirement for the department of public health and environment to conduct a firearms safe storage education campaign; ! Prohibitions on certain conduct involving an unserialized firearm, frame, or receiver; ! The requirement to conduct a background check on the transferee in a private firearm transfer; ! Setting the minimum age to buy a firearm at 21 years old; ! The 3-day waiting period for firearm sales; ! Certain prohibited activity involving semiautomatic firearms, including the prohibition on purchasing a firearm without having completed certain educational requirements, and the associated firearms training and safety course record system; ! Ammunition sales; ! Permitting local entities to prohibit carrying a concealed handgun in certain areas; ! Prohibiting the possession of certain ammunition magazines, and marking requirements on certain ammunition magazines manufactured in Colorado on or after July 1, 2013; ! The requirement to have a state permit to deal firearms in Colorado and the requirements for dealers and dealers' employees; ! Gun show regulations; ! Providing materials about gun violence prevention to parents with students in K-12 schools; ! The authority of the Colorado bureau of investigation to investigate particular illegal activity involving firearms statewide; ! The voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm; and ! The authority of a local government to enact an ordinance, regulation, or other law governing or prohibiting the sale, purchase, transfer, or possession of a firearm, ammunition, or firearm component or accessory. The bill repeals the office of gun violence prevention. As part of the repeals described above, the firearms training and safety course cash fund is repealed and the voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm program, which is funded by gifts, grants, and donations, is repealed. The bill directs the state treasurer to return the money in the firearms training and safety course cash fund to the persons who paid fees into the fund and to return to the grantors and donors the balance of the gifts, grants, and donations made in support of the voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm program. | YES | The bill repeals 20+ previously enacted laws which restrict gun ownership and restrain firearms commerce. Additionally, the bill also requires previous fees paid into the fund be returned to the citizens. Firearm ownership is fundamental to American history and rights. We happily support a return to normalcy as it relates to protection of ourselves, our families, and others. None of the previously enacted provisions have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing gun violence. | Dead | House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely | 02/17/2026 | Brandi Bradley (R)*, Max Brooks (R)*, Mark Baisley (R)*, Lynda Zamora Wilson (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1021 | |||
| HB1023 | Political Party Liability for Accessibility Requirements | Under current law, the general assembly, the secretary of state, and each political party must ensure that it remains an option for a candidate in the state to access the ballot through the caucus process or any future alternative process that is accessible to persons with disabilities. A political party must also ensure that any person, upon request, is able to participate in a precinct caucus or a party assembly with the use of a video conferencing platform or alternative means of participation. The failure of any political party to make a reasonable effort to comply with these accessibility requirements constitutes discrimination on the basis of disability in a place of public accommodation. The bill clarifies that these duties are duties of the state political party and that a person who is subjected to a violation of a state political party's duties regarding these accessibility requirements may file suit against the state political party. An individual, including a member of or volunteer for a political party, or a local political party may not be held liable for a violation of the state political party's duties regarding these accessibility requirements. | YES | Under a recent law, a political party must ensure that persons with a disability are able to participate in a precinct caucus or a state party assembly with the use of a video conferencing or an alternative means of participation. This bill clarifies that it is a state political party that is responsible for ensuring that such means of participation are available, as opposed to the county parties or volunteers hosting precinct caucuses. This is an important distinction as the original legislation specifies that failure to provide this access could be grounds for a lawsuit, putting many individual volunteers at risk and potentially limiting the number of volunteers willing to run caucuses. | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs | 03/04/2026 | Stephanie Luck (R)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Mark Baisley (R)*, Robert Rodriguez (D)*, Lynda Zamora Wilson (R)*, Scott Bottoms (R), Brandi Bradley (R), Max Brooks (R), Jarvis Caldwell (R), Chad Clifford (D), Ken Degraaf (R), Monica Duran (D), Cecelia Espenoza (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Tony Hartsook (R), Mandy Lindsay (D), Matt Martinez (D), Jacqueline Phillips (D), Chris Richardson (R), Scott Slaugh (R), Tammy Story (D), Larry Suckla (R), Rick Taggart (R), Elizabeth Velasco (D), Ron Weinberg (R), Ty Winter (R) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1023 | |||
| HB1026 | Expanding Plan Options for PERA | 02/09/2026 | Under current law, a member of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) earns service credit for each year worked during which the member makes contributions to PERA. A member may purchase additional years of service credit for any previous period of public or private employment during which the member was not making contributions to PERA, subject to certain conditions. Sections 1 and 3 of the bill allow a member of PERA to also purchase service credit for previous periods of unemployment during which the member was 21 years old or older, subject to certain conditions. Sections 2, 3, 4, and 7 make conforming amendments. Sections 5 and 6 require PERA's voluntary investment program to include options for an employee to make tax-deferred voluntary contributions and Roth voluntary contributions to the program and make other conforming changes. Sections 8 and 9 require PERA employers to affiliate with PERA's deferred compensation plan and offer the plan to employees. The sections require the deferred compensation plan to include options for an employee to make pre-tax voluntary contributions and Roth voluntary contributions to the plan and make other conforming changes. | NO | This bill expands options for members of the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) with changes aimed to provide more flexibility and opportunities for members to enhance their retirement savings. With the fiscal budget crisis, the state is currently experiencing, CUT views these changes as unnecessary, especially in light of the unknown future sustainability of the program. | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance | 03/10/2026 | Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Bob Marshall (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, Sean Camacho (D), Michael Carter (D), Chad Clifford (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Ryan Gonzalez (R), Junie Joseph (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Jacqueline Phillips (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Brianna Titone (D), Alex Valdez (D) | 3 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1026 | ||
| HB1030 | Data Center & Utility Modernization | 02/09/2026 | The bill creates the data center development and incentive program (program) operated by the Colorado data center development authority (authority), which is newly created in the Colorado office of economic development (office) (section 1 of the bill). The authority consists of 9 members, as follows: ! members appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate; ! The director of the Colorado energy office or the director's designee; ! One member who has experience in water projects or water resource management, appointed by the president of the senate; ! One member who has experience in clean and renewable energy, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; ! members who have experience in data center development, with one member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one member appointed by the president of the senate; ! One member representing a statewide organization that represents workers in trade crafts who construct data centers, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; and ! One member representing a statewide organization that represents contractors who construct data centers, appointed by the president of the senate. To incentivize efficient data center development, the program allows a 100% state sales and use tax exemption on qualified purchases to the operator of a certified data center. To be eligible for certification, the operator of the data center, or a data center operator collectively with participating data center tenants, must: ! Have initiated a preliminary consultation with the utility that will provide electricity for the data center project regarding interconnection feasibility, capacity, and infrastructure requirements; ! Commit to making a $250 million minimum investment in data center infrastructure within 5 years; ! Commit to creating new full-time jobs, including employees and long-term service and maintenance positions, that satisfy specified criteria and breaking ground on the data center project within 2 years of obtaining certification; ! Commit to complying, and ensure that the utility that provides electricity to the data center also complies, with craft labor requirements, apprenticeship utilization requirements, and prevailing wage requirements; and ! Commit to obtaining certification under one of several energy efficiency standards, implementing water stewardship strategies that optimize operational water management, ensuring that all backup power generation associated with the data center project meets specified requirements, and consulting with the department of natural resources. To obtain certification, a data center operator must apply to the authority in a form and manner to be determined by the authority. The authority is required to review a data center operator's application for certification and may award certification to a data center operator that has demonstrated that it will satisfy the certification criteria (section 1). A data center operator that obtains certification for a data center project is eligible for a 100% state sales and use tax exemption on the purchase and use of qualified data center infrastructure and systems for years from the date that the data center project was certified, so long as the data center satisfies ongoing post-certification requirements and submits annual compliance reports to the authority. As long as the data center meets post-certification requirements as demonstrated in the annual compliance reports, a data center operator of a certified data center may apply to the authority for an extension of the sales and use tax exemption for an additional 10 years. If the authority determines that a data center operator is not fulfilling its obligations and commitments to retain certification, the authority may revoke the certification and the data center operator is required to repay the state for the sales and use tax benefits that it received (sections 1 and 5). The exemption for a certified data center does not apply to local sales and use taxes unless the exemption is expressly included at the time of adoption or amendment of the local sales tax ordinance or resolution (section 4). The bill allows a utility regulated by the public utilities commission (commission) to submit a targeted resource acquisition application to the commission to propose methods of meeting emerging large-load customer needs. The bill also specifies how a utility may finance resource and infrastructure needs in connection with emerging large-load customers (section 3). | NO | The bill establishes a data center development program and a development authority appointed to run the program. The program offers a 100% sales and use tax exemption for minimum $250M data facility projects. This legislation ignores the reason new, giant data centers are not coming here: unreliable, 100% renewable energy mandated by this legislature. The solution they propose to their problem is to set up another bureaucracy and offer tax incentives. The taxpayers (including existing data centers) will have to pay for these incentives and will see TABOR refunds shrink. Meanwhile, more demand is placed on a declining power supply. This is cronyism that works by giving special favors to select businesses at everyone else’s expense, run by appointees answerable to no one. Insertion of the Safety Clause is the final twist of the dagger into the body of Colorado’s citizens. | In Committee | House Energy & Environment Hearing (13:30:00 2/12/2026 Room Old State Library) | 02/12/2026 | Monica Duran (D)*, Alex Valdez (D)*, Kyle Mullica (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1030 | ||
| HB1033 | Expanding the Colorado Cottage Foods Act | The bill expands the "Colorado Cottage Foods Act" (CCFA) by allowing for the sale of homemade foods that require refrigeration and foods that include meat and meat products. A producer of a food (producer) that requires time and temperature control must take a food safety course that includes food handling training concerning time and temperature control and acquire and maintain proof of course completion. The bill authorizes a county, district, or regional health agency that inspects or investigates homemade food products produced pursuant to the CCFA to impose a fine for a violation of the requirements of the CCFA and to recover the cost of the inspection or investigation. The bill removes the $10,000 cap on net revenues that a producer can earn under the CCFA. The bill specifies that the CCFA does not apply to the sale of certain food products. | YES | This bill expands the "Colorado Cottage Foods Act" (CCFA) by allowing for the sale of homemade foods that require refrigeration and foods that include meat and meat products and providing training and other requirements for handling refrigerated products. CUT supports this bill because it allows small home-based businesses to grow and provide more products in response to market demand. However, some members had concerns about potential food borne illnesses and whether the state budget had prepared for such possibility. | In Committee | House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/26/2026 | Monica Duran (D)*, Ryan Gonzalez (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1033 | |||
| HB1034 | Modifications to Standards for Irrigation Equipment | 02/09/2026 | House Bill 23-1161 established environmental standards for irrigation controllers and spray sprinkler bodies that are sold or leased in the state on and after January 1, 2026, and are not specifically excluded from the federal WaterSense program (program). The bill repeals the environmental standard for irrigation controllers. The bill also modifies the environmental standard for spray sprinkler bodies to: ! No longer require that spray sprinkler bodies include a check valve; and ! Require that spray sprinkler bodies are certified to the program, rather than requiring that spray sprinkler bodies meet the water efficiency and performance criteria of the program. | YES | The bill modifies water efficiency standards to simpler certification and removal of specific component requirements. This bill pulls back requirements established by HB23-1161. The bill reduces micromanagement by eliminating a requirement for specific component inclusion. This may allow for more competition from producers who make the same products without those components. Reduced regulation allows for innovation, lower costs and better outcomes. | In Committee | House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/23/2026 | Dusty Johnson (R)*, Meghan Lukens (D)*, Rod Pelton (R)*, Carlos Barron (R), Monica Duran (D), Lori Garcia Sander (R), Lori Goldstein (D), Ryan Gonzalez (R), Rebecca Keltie (R), Mandy Lindsay (D), Bob Marshall (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Katie Stewart (D), Rick Taggart (R), Steven Woodrow (D) | 3 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1034 | ||
| HB1036 | Local Taxes on Vacant Residential Property | 02/02/2026 | The bill authorizes a county or municipality (local government), after approval by the electors of the local government, to impose an excise or a property tax, or both, on vacant residential properties within the boundaries of the local government (local taxes on vacant residential properties) (sections 1 and 3 of the bill). A local government may use the revenues collected from either tax only for affordable, attainable, or workforce housing. A county assessor has no duty in implementing local taxes on vacant residential properties, but in an assessor's discretion, the assessor may assist by providing data and information to a local government or local housing tax authority, and may enter into an intergovernmental agreement that provides for compensation in exchange for the assessor's assistance. The bill also creates a process for the creation of a local housing tax authority (authority) by intergovernmental agreement to allow 2 or more counties, cities and counties, or municipalities to form a joint taxing authority to collectively establish, levy, collect, and enforce local taxes on vacant residential properties within the boundaries of the authority (section 2). | NO | The bill authorizes local governments to impose excise or property taxes, or both on vacant properties. Revenue collected may be used only for affordable or workforce housing. This is a property rights, equal protection, and proper role of government issue. The government has no right to monitor property usage. Property owners who do not continually occupy the housing are actually causing minimal impact on government services and therefore should not have to pay additional taxes. It is not the role of government to decide what types of housing should be provided. | Dead | House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | 02/09/2026 | Brianna Titone (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)* | 1 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1036 | ||
| HB1038 | County Commissioner Redistricting | 02/02/2026 | Under current law, certain boards of county commissioners must appoint county commissioner redistricting commissions to adopt plans to divide the relevant counties into as many county commissioner districts as there are county commissioners elected by voters of their district (plan). The bill requires these boards of county commissioners to appoint independent county commissioner redistricting commissions, modifies the criteria for who may serve on these commissions, and requires the boards of county commissioners to adopt a final plan that was one of the final plans approved by an independent county commissioner redistricting commission. The bill also removes the role of advisory committees in the process of adopting a plan and divides that role among staff and the independent county commissioner redistricting commissions. Further, the bill requires an independent county commissioner redistricting commission to adopt a numerical measure of county commissioner district competitiveness and to use that measure in determining county commissioner districts. | NO | The bill requires county commissioner redistricting commissions to be “independent committees." CUT sees this as an improper interference into local government and an unfunded mandate directed downward from the State. Telling a county how to conduct its business is not the State’s decision. | Crossed Over | Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole | 03/10/2026 | Chad Clifford (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Marc Snyder (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Regina English (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Junie Joseph (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Bob Marshall (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Jenny Willford (D) | 3 | 11 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1038 | ||
| HB1046 | Regulate Earned-Wage Access Services | The bill requires a person to obtain a license to provide earned-wage access services (provider) but allows current providers to continue providing the services without a license until a license is issued or denied. The licensing, administrative, and disciplinary functions of the regulation of providers are performed by the assistant attorney general (administrator) who administers the "Uniform Consumer Credit Code". The administrator is given several powers, including adopting rules, related to this regulation. License application and issuance standards and procedures are established. A provider is issued a license if the administrator finds that the financial responsibility, character, and fitness of the applicant and of the applicant's members, managers, partners, officers, and directors are sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant will operate the business honestly and fairly and in compliance with the bill. The license fee is set by the administrator to cover the cost of regulating providers. Administrative procedures are established. A license is valid for one year, and to renew a license, a licensee must file a renewal form annually. If a licensee fails to pay the prescribed renewal fee on or before May 1 of each year, the licensee must pay a penalty of $5 per day per license until the license is renewed, but if a licensee fails to pay the appropriate renewal and penalty fees by May 15, the licensee's license automatically expires. The administrator may deny an application for a license or take disciplinary action against a licensee for failing to meet the standards set in the bill. To discipline a provider, the administrator may deny an application for licensure, revoke the license, suspend the license, issue a cease-and-desist order, impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation, bar the person from applying for or holding a license for 5 years after a revocation, issue a letter of admonition, or impose a penalty of $200 per day for records violations. A respondent aggrieved by an action or order of the administrator may obtain judicial review of the action or order in the Colorado court of appeals. A licensee is required to maintain records in conformity with the bill, rules adopted under the bill, and generally accepted accounting principles and practices in a manner that will enable the administrator to determine if the licensee is complying with the bill. A licensee shall give the administrator free access to the records in the licensee's storage location. A licensee need not preserve records pertaining to an earned-wage access services transaction for more than one year. Standards are set for this access. A licensee must file an annual report that includes all relevant information that the bill and the administrator reasonably require concerning the business and operations conducted during the preceding calendar year. Standards are set for the report. The administrator must keep the report confidential and not open it to the public for inspection pursuant to the "Colorado Open Records Act". If a licensee fails to file an annual report by April 15, the administrator may impose a penalty of $5 per day until the report is filed, but if the licensee fails to file the report and pay this penalty by May 1 of the same year, the licensee's license automatically expires. After the administrator has examined a licensee's records, the administrator shall provide a report of the examination to the licensee and may require the licensee to take corrective action. The licensee shall take the corrective action and provide proof that the corrective action was taken. The administrator is prohibited from disclosing the name or identity of a person whose acts or conduct is under investigation or examination or the facts disclosed in the investigation or examination, except for disclosures in actions or enforcement proceedings. A provider has the duty to: ! Develop and implement policies and procedures to respond to questions raised by consumers and address complaints from consumers; ! If the provider offers a consumer the option to receive proceeds for a service fee (proceeds), offer to the consumer at least one reasonable option to obtain proceeds at no cost to the consumer and clearly explain how to elect the no-cost option; ! Make certain disclosures about the earned-wage access services to the consumer; ! Inform the consumer before implementing material changes to the terms and conditions of the earned-wage access services agreement; ! Allow the consumer to cancel use of the earned-wage access services at any time without incurring a cancellation fee; ! Provide proceeds to a consumer by the means mutually agreed upon by the consumer and the provider; and ! To be repaid for outstanding proceeds or payment of service fees or other amounts owed in connection with earned-wage access services from a consumer's account at a depository institution, comply with federal law and reimburse the consumer for the full amount of any overdraft or insufficient funds fees imposed on the consumer that were caused by the provider attempting to seek payment on a date before the date or in an amount different from the amount disclosed to the consumer. A provider shall not: ! Share with an employer a portion of a service fee that was received from or charged to a consumer for earned-wage access services; ! Require a consumer's credit score provided by a consumer reporting agency to determine the consumer's eligibility for earned-wage access services; ! Accept payment of outstanding proceeds or service fees from a consumer by means of a credit card or charge card; ! Charge a consumer a late fee, a deferral fee, interest, or any other penalty or charge for failure to pay outstanding proceeds or service fees; ! Report to a collection agency or to a debt collector information about a consumer regarding the inability of the provider to be repaid outstanding proceeds or service fees; ! Impose a service fee in excess of $5 for an advance of proceeds in an amount less than $75 or $7 for an advance of proceeds in an amount more than $75; except that the fee may be increased for inflation; ! Enter into an agreement with an employer that would require a consumer who is an employee of the employer to use earned-wage access services as a necessary condition of receiving payment of wages; ! Compel a consumer to pay outstanding proceeds or service fees to the provider through a lawsuit, the use of a third party to pursue collection from the consumer, or the sale of outstanding proceeds to a third-party collector or debt buyer. The collection limitations do not apply to the act of compelling payment of outstanding proceeds paid through fraudulent or other unlawful means or to pursuing an employer for breach of its contractual obligations to the provider. ! Solicit a tip, gratuity, or donation during the time between when a consumer requests proceeds and when the provider confirms that a transfer of proceeds has been approved and provides a listing of the fees that will be charged. The administrator may bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for willfully violating the bill, and, if the court finds that the defendant has engaged in a course of repeated and willful violations, the court may assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. In addition, the administrator may recover reasonable costs of the investigation and action and may request an order for reimbursement of reasonable attorney fees. | NO | Bill seeks to regulate services which advance employees a portion of their earned, but unpaid, wages. Some of these services are employee sponsored, while many others are store front retail operations. CUT’s opposition to this bill was unanimous….a rare occurrence. But how is it the proper role of government to set up a regulatory body, complete with FTEs to ‘regulate’ a private transaction? The “Control & Regulate” gene is dominant with this General Assembly. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/19/2026 | Sean Camacho (D)*, Monica Duran (D)*, Lisa Frizell (R)*, Kyle Mullica (D)* | 1 | 7 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1046 | |||
| HB1048 | Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday | Section 1 of the bill creates a time-limited state sales and use tax exemption (tax holiday) for back-to-school items. The tax holiday applies to the last weekend of July 2027 and reoccurs at approximately the same time in 2028 and 2029. A "back-to-school item" means an article of clothing, a school supply, or a learning aid that is purchased primarily for use by an individual who is under 21 years old. The exemption for each item is limited by cost as follows: ! $100 for an article of clothing; ! $50 for a school supply; and ! $30 for a learning aid. Section 2 permits a town, city, or county to create a tax holiday for back-to-school items that is identical to the state tax holiday. | NO | Our CUT Board had a difficult time with this one but eventually came down against the bill. While we had 100% agreement with the sentiment, we just could not reconcile the desire to marginally help parents vs. favoritism for one type business vs other businesses. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/26/2026 | Ty Winter (R)*, Byron Pelton (R)*, John Carson (R)* | 1 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1048 | |||
| HB1049 | Prohibit Use of Personally Identifying Feature | 02/02/2026 | The bill criminalizes the use of an individual's fingerprint, voiceprint, retina, iris, or facial map (personally identifying feature) in an advertisement, deepfake, image, video, voice recording, or other digital depiction, without the individual's permission (unlawful use of a personally identifying feature). Unlawful use of a personally identifying feature is a class 5 felony, and unlawful use of a personally identifying feature with the intent to harm the individual or another individual is a class 4 felony. An individual harmed by an unlawful use of a personally identifying feature may bring a civil cause of action and collect damages and reasonable attorney fees. | YES | The bill prohibits unauthorized use of a person’s unique, biological characteristics. The bill is a proper role of government by helping protect individuals' property rights. We agree with use of the Safety Clause due to the rapidly increasing occurrence of identity theft and AI “deepfake” problems. | Dead | House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 02/12/2026 | Scott Bottoms (R)*, Mark Baisley (R)* | 1 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1049 | ||
| HB1053 | Motor Vehicle Regulation Administration | Under current law, an owner of a vehicle that pays specific ownership tax, except intrastate commercial carriers, have their license plates retired and are reissued new plates when the vehicle's ownership is transferred. The bill repeals this requirement and authorizes the owner to transfer the plates to a new motor vehicle. Current law provides for an electronic vehicle registration and titling system (electronic system). The bill requires the department of revenue (department) to develop an application programming interface for this electronic system. The department must provide the application programming interface to its authorized agents. An authorized agent may use this interface or use the agent's own interface system. The department may adopt rules governing the authorized agent's use of such an interface with the electronic system. The bill requires the department to develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive contingency plan to ensure continuity of operations and the protection of critical services in the event of a disruption in vehicle licensing operations. Standards are set for the contingency plan. The governor's office of information technology must provide the appropriate network and equipment support to the department. Current law provides for the keep Colorado wild pass, which allows people to obtain a Colorado parks pass for a motor vehicle for a reduced fee when registering the motor vehicle. The bill requires the authorized agent of the department to retain 3.33% of the fee. | YES | This bill repeals the requirement that an owner of a motor vehicle have their license plates retired and are reissued new plates when the vehicle’s ownership is transferred and authorizes the owner to transfer the plates to a new motor vehicle. The CUT board overwhelmingly supports this bill as it is practical and, as an added bonus, the revenue will no longer go into an enterprise, thereby making that revenue part of the TABOR calculation. | In Committee | House Appropriations Hearing (08:30:00 3/13/2026 Room 0112) | 03/13/2026 | Tisha Mauro (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1053 | |||
| HB1061 | Community Integration Housing Tax Credits | The bill creates a targeted allocation priority within Colorado's administration of federal and state affordable housing tax credits to support development of integrated, community-based housing for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The bill requires a set aside of at least 10% of the state's annual allocation of competitive federal low-income housing tax credits (federal tax credits) for "community integration housing". To qualify, a development must comply with federal tax credit requirements, meet federal home- and community-based services settings standards, reserve at least 20% of its units for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and partner with a community-centered board or certified case-management agency. The bill authorizes the Colorado housing and finance authority (authority) to reallocate unused credits from the set aside at the end of a calendar year for allocation to any eligible project. The bill amends the state affordable housing tax credit (state tax credit) to require the authority to provide priority scoring or preference to qualified developments that have received a federal tax credit as a qualified community integration housing development and that continue to meet all requirements for community integration housing. The requirement for priority scoring or preference does not waive or otherwise limit the authority's ability to enforce all applicable eligibility requirements or to determine the amount of the state tax credit to be allocated to any qualified development. | DNR | This bill creates a targeted priority in Colorado's allocation of affordable housing tax credits to support "community integration housing" for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It mandates that at least 10% of the state's annual competitive federal low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC) be set aside specifically for qualifying developments. The CUT board mostly agreed that this bill seems to not noticeably impact tax spending. Also, there were no fiscal notes which led to making it difficult to fully understand fiscal outcomes. | In Committee | House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Hearing (13:30:00 3/18/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/18/2026 | Max Brooks (R)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1061 | |||
| HB1062 | Expand Deduction for Retirement Benefits | Current law allows any individual to deduct amounts, up to certain caps based on the individual's age, received as pensions or annuities from any source, to the extent included in federal adjusted gross income. Notwithstanding the caps on the deduction for amounts received as pensions or annuities from other sources, current law allows any individual who is 65 years old or older at the close of a taxable year to subtract the total amount of social security benefits that the individual received from the individual's federal taxable income, to the extent those benefits were included in federal taxable income, when determining the individual's state taxable income. This subtraction is also allowed to any individual who is 55 years old or older and has an adjusted gross income for the applicable tax year that is less than or equal to $75,000 if filing individually or $95,000 if filing jointly. For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, the bill removes all caps on the deduction for amounts received as pensions and annuities and allows any individual who is 55 years old or older, regardless of income, to subtract the total amount that the individual received as pension or annuity income from the individual's federal taxable income, to the extent that income was included in federal taxable income, when determining the individual's state taxable income. | DNR | This bill aims to expand Colorado's state income tax subtraction for retirement benefits. Under current law, individuals aged 55-64 can deduct up to $20,000 of pension/annuity income (including PERA, IRAs, 401(k)s, etc.), while those 65+ can deduct up to $24,000, with full deductions allowed for Social Security benefits (and certain lower-income cases for ages 55-64). The bill would have removed all dollar caps starting in tax year 2027, allowing anyone 55 or older to subtract the full amount of federally taxable pension or annuity income (to the extent included in federal adjusted gross income) when calculating Colorado taxable income, regardless of income level. Most of the CUT board did not feel this bill needed to be rated as the measure was postponed indefinitely in the House Finance Committee on February 9, 2026, meaning it failed to advance. | Dead | House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | 02/09/2026 | Ron Weinberg (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1062 | |||
| HB1065 | Transit and Housing Investment Zones | Section 2 of the bill creates the "Transit Investment Area Act" and: ! Creates a mechanism for a local government and transit agency, subject to state approval, to undertake a transit investment project (project), to designate a transit investment area (area) in which the project will be built, and to create a transit investment authority (authority) or to designate other financing entities with the power to receive and use the increment of revenue derived from the state sales tax collected in the area that is equal to the amount of state sales tax revenue collected in an area above a designated base amount plus 20% of that same revenue (state sales tax increment revenue) to be used to finance eligible improvements related to the project; ! Allows a local government to apply to the office of economic development and the Colorado economic development commission (commission) to undertake a project, and, in connection with the project, to form an authority or to designate a county revitalization authority, metropolitan district, or urban renewal authority as the approved financing entity; ! Specifies the information that a local government is required to include in the application for a project and the criteria that the project is required to satisfy to be approved; ! Requires the director of the office of economic development (director) to review each application for a project and to make an initial determination regarding whether the application meets the specified criteria; ! Requires the director to forward each application to the commission with a recommendation regarding whether the project should be approved; ! Directs the commission to review each application and to approve or reject the project and, as part of the approval of a project, allows the commission to authorize the collection and use of the state sales tax increment revenue for a designated number of years not to exceed 30 years; ! Allows the commission to approve no more than 3 transit investment projects in any calendar year and no more than in total; ! Allows the commission to dedicate no more than $75 million in a fiscal year to the transit investment projects it approves; ! If requested by the local government, allows the commission to authorize the creation of an authority to receive and spend state sales tax increment revenue; ! Specifies that an authority is governed by a board consisting of a certain number of members appointed by the commission and a certain number of members appointed by the local government; ! Specifies the powers of the authority and the manner in which the state sales tax increment revenue is divided and used; ! Requires the financing entity for a project to submit a report containing specified information to the commission; and ! Authorizes a county revitalization authority, an urban renewal authority, or a metropolitan district to receive and disburse the state sales tax increment revenue generated within an area and to act as the financing entity for the area. Section 9 creates the Colorado affordable housing in transit investment zones tax credit (tax credit). The tax credit is administered in the same manner as the Colorado affordable housing in transit-oriented communities tax credit; except that the tax credit is awarded in connection with qualified low- and middle-income housing projects in transit and housing zones. The bill allows $50 million of credits to be awarded each calendar year beginning in the 2027 calendar year through the 2033 calendar year. | NO | This bill establishes the “Transit Investment Area Act” to create a framework for local governments and transit agencies to undertake transit investment projects. It also introduces the “Colorado Affordable Housing in Transit Investment Zones Tax Credit” which provides tax credits for low- and middle-income housing projects in these designated zones, with a limit of $50 million in credits awarded annually from 2027-2033. CUT unanimously voted no on this bill. This bill will put RTD in bed with developers to increase ridership. It will take money from the general fund and hand it out to local towns and cities for public transit and subsidized multi-home housing. CUT objects to the use of the Safety Clause. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/23/2026 | Julie McCluskie (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Jamie Jackson (D)*, Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)* | 1 | 12 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1065 | |||
| HB1066 | Tax Exemptions Low Income Rental Property Development | Current law provides an exemption for taxation on property acquired and developed for low-income housing by nonprofit housing providers, community land trusts, and nonprofit affordable homeownership developers. The bill expands the exemption to also include property intended for low-income residential rental property. | NO | This bill expands existing property tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations that develop low-income housing to include properties for low-income residential rentals. This will undoubtedly place a burden on regular taxpayers as it will reduce local government revenue from exempted land. Under current law, property acquired by nonprofit housing providers can be exempt from property tax for up to ten years, just by showing “intent” that the property will eventually be used for affordable for sale housing. At a time when we face budget shortfalls, removal of property from the tax rolls will just sink Colorado deeper into the mire. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/23/2026 | Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Katie Stewart (D)*, Matt Ball (D)* | 1 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1066 | |||
| HB1072 | Right to Firearm Possession & Elimination of Extreme Risk Protection Orders | 03/02/2026 | The bill codifies an individual's right to own, possess, and use a firearm to the maximum extent permissible by the state and federal constitutions. Extreme risk protection orders and temporary extreme risk protection orders are repealed. | YES | The bill repeals laws regarding extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) for firearms. The importance to CUT is restoration of property rights. The ERPOs permit violations of US Constitution amendments 2 (right to bear arms), 4 (unreasonable searches and seizures) and 6 (right to face one’s accusers). This bill would restore many rights to protect ourselves and our families against bad actors. The Fiscal Note states that there was only one ERPO conviction since 2022 which shows that these "protection orders" are extreme and unnecessary. Further, the bill would eliminate 4.2 FTE and save almost $700K. The majority party is likely to kill it. Even if it fails, the bill points out where legislators stand. Why does this bill have only one sponsor? | Dead | House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 03/02/2026 | Scott Slaugh (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1072 | ||
| HB1073 | Limitations on Bills Introduced by General Assembly Members | 02/09/2026 | Joint rule 24 (b)(1)(A) of the joint rules of the senate and house of representatives specifies that a member of the general assembly may not introduce more than 5 bills, with certain exceptions, in a regular legislative session. The bill creates a statutory limitation on the number of bills that a member of the general assembly may introduce. Specifically, the bill states that a member of the general assembly may not introduce more than 3 bills, with certain exceptions, in a regular legislative session. The bill also creates statutory limitations on the purpose for which a member of the general assembly may be allowed to introduce more than 3 bills at any time during a regular legislative session. | YES | This bill seeks to reduce the number of Bills any legislator can introduce each session from 5 Bills per year, down to 3 Bills per year. Wholly appropriate, as our General Assembly has run amok the last several years in a tsunami of legislative meddling. Perhaps Rep. Weinberg would consider amending his bill to exempt any proposed legislation which REPEALS a prior law. | Dead | House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 02/09/2026 | Ron Weinberg (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1073 | ||
| HB1074 | 90 Day Legislative Session | 02/09/2026 | The state constitution limits the number of days the general assembly may meet to no more than 120 calendar days for a regular session each year. The bill further limits the length of each regular session to no more than 90 consecutive calendar days each year. | YES | This bill seeks to reduce the number of days available for this Assembly, or any future Assembly, to foist regulations, fees, and government control on the citizens by reducing the length of the legislative session from 120 calendar days down to 90 days. | Dead | House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 02/09/2026 | Ron Weinberg (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1074 | ||
| HB1075 | Child Welfare Prevention Services Funding | Under current law, funds from the Colorado child abuse prevention trust fund (trust fund) are for child abuse prevention programs and are distributed to organizations, including counties, through a competitive grant process rather than through direct distributions. The bill increases funding for county child welfare prevention services and programs by changing the source of reimbursement money transmitted to the trust fund from money received for all prevention services and programs identified in the federal Title IV-E clearinghouse (prevention services clearinghouse) to money received by the Colorado department of early childhood and identified in the prevention services clearinghouse. The trust fund and Colorado child abuse prevention board (board) are scheduled to repeal July 1, 2027. The bill continues the trust fund and board indefinitely. | NO | The bill increases funding for county child welfare prevention services and programs by changing the source of reimbursement money transmitted to the trust fund from money received for all prevention services and programs identified in the federal Title IV-E clearinghouse (prevention services clearinghouse) to money received by the Colorado department of early childhood and identified in the prevention services clearinghouse and the bill continues the trust fund and board indefinitely. The CUT board overwhelmingly opposes this measure. There are no fiscal notes which makes this bill difficult to understand fully, and the bill “continues the trust fund and board indefinitely” which is just plain wrong. Also, improper use of the Safety Clause. | In Committee | House Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 02/18/2026 | Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Lisa Frizell (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1075 | |||
| HB1076 | Transportation Statutory Clean-Up | The bill makes the following changes to statutes concerning the department of transportation (department): ! Changes the name of the freight mobility and safety branch within the transportation development division of the department to the office of freight mobility and safety (sections 1, 3, 5, and 9 of the bill); ! Clarifies that each state agency is responsible for paying its proportionate part of the cost of maintenance and operation of fueling infrastructure to support its motor vehicle fleet (section 2); ! Clarifies that a driver of a commercial vehicle may not enter the farthest left-hand general purpose lane when driving specified sections of interstate 70 (section 4); ! Clarifies which transportation commission district represents the city and county of Broomfield (section 6); ! Relocates a provision concerning the chief engineer from the statutory section governing the highway maintenance division to the statutory section governing the chief engineer (sections 7 and 8); ! Repeals a statutory section concerning a study prepared by legislative council staff on the transportation commission districts, which has been completed (section 10); ! Redirects revenue from a permitting fee imposed by the department on companies authorized to install and remove tire chains, as established in Senate Bill 25-069, from the highway users tax fund to the state highway fund (section 11); ! Repeals outdated and obsolete provisions concerning the highway users tax fund (sections 12 and 13); ! Defines "toll evasion" for purposes of civil penalties, enforcement, and administration of the use of a toll highway (section 14); ! Establishes a 4-year term limit for members of the nonattainment area air pollution mitigation enterprise board who are appointed by the governor and clarifies when the initial term for each appointment ends (section 15); and ! Repeals a requirement that the transportation commission approve transfers of money directed by the division of aeronautics from the aviation account of the transportation infrastructure revolving fund to the aviation fund, which amounts must not exceed transfers previously approved by the Colorado aeronautical board (section 16). | DNR | This bill makes various non-controversial housekeeping changes to clarify, update, and streamline statutes related to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and transportation matters. This bill was not rated by most CUT board members as it mostly focuses on “DOT housekeeping” and has little or no fiscal impact | Crossed Over | Senate Transportation & Energy Committee Hearing (13:30:00 3/18/2026 SCR 352) | 03/18/2026 | Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Matt Ball (D)*, Meg Froelich (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D) | 3 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1076 | |||
| HB1080 | County Mail Ballot Signature Verification Requirements | 03/09/2026 | Currently, in every mail ballot election coordinated with or conducted by a county clerk and recorder, a single election judge personally conducts the review of each mail ballot for purposes of signature verification, unless the county clerk and recorder allows the election judge to use a signature verification device. The bill requires the county clerk and recorder to use a team of bipartisan election judges, rather than a single election judge, to review mail ballots for purposes of signature verification. The bill requires the secretary of state to adopt rules concerning the procedure for using a team of bipartisan election judges for such signature verification. | YES | This bill requires the county clerk and recorder to use a team of bipartisan election judges, rather than a single election judge, to review mail ballots for purposes of initial signature verification. This return to the method that in the past was used by many counties is a move toward greater election integrity. It would be stronger if the judge review after rejection by an automated ballot signature review program was also done by a bipartisan team and if bipartisan was defined as 2 judges registered in different political parties (not unaffiliated persons). | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Amy Paschal (D)*, Chris Richardson (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1080 | ||
| HB1084 | Voter Transparency in Ballot Measures | The bill requires that certain language appear in the ballot title for an initiated statewide measure that would increase state expenditures but does not identify and provide for a sufficient source of revenue or sufficient reductions in state spending for specific public services or program areas to account for the increased expenditures (measure that increases state expenditures). The ballot title for a measure that increases state expenditures must include language identifying the 3 largest program areas of state expenditures for which state expenditures will be reduced if the measure passes, which must be in a format substantially similar to the following language: "... will reduce state expenditures for program areas that include (the 3 largest areas of program expenditure) by an estimated (projected dollar figure of reduction to those areas in the first full fiscal year that the measure will cause the reduction) ...". If the ballot measure specifies the public services or programs that are to be reduced, those public services or programs must be stated in the ballot title. The bill also requires the ballot information booklet entry for a measure that increases state expenditures to include a description of the measure's projected effect on the 3 largest areas of program expenditure of the state and modifies existing statutory language to mirror this change. | NO | This bill requires that if an initiated statewide measure is proposed that would increase state spending but doesn’t clearly identify how that spending will be covered, the ballot title must include the top three biggest areas of state spending that would most likely see reductions to cover the new costs. CUT unanimously voted no on this bill because it only applies to citizen-initiated bills. This is very hypocritical since initiatives from the State Legislature do not have the same requirements. Also, the longer ballot title will discourage voters from voting. | In Committee | House Third Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/6/2026 House Floor) | 03/06/2026 | Sean Camacho (D)*, Cecelia Espenoza (D)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D), Kyle Brown (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Meghan Lukens (D), Javier Mabrey (D), Tisha Mauro (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Brianna Titone (D) | 3 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1084 | |||
| HB1093 | College Opportunity Fund Working Group | The bill creates a working group to make findings and recommendations concerning how to implement the college opportunity fund for persons who are incarcerated in Colorado, including whether fee-for-service contracts for participating institutions of higher education need to be modified. The bill requires the working group to report its findings and recommendations to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate on or before December 1, 2026. | NO | This bill establishes a working group to explore how to implement the College Opportunity Fund for incarcerated individuals in Colorado. CUT overwhelmingly voted no on the bill, opposing using these resources on those who are incarcerated. We don’t know how much this will cost taxpayers after the study is complete and CUT objects to the safety clause. | Dead | House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely | 03/04/2026 | Matt Martinez (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1093 | |||
| HB1102 | Funding for Colorado DRIVES Account | The bill makes the following changes to increase the amount of revenue that is directed to the Colorado DRIVES vehicle services account (DRIVES account) created in the highway users tax fund (HUTF): ! Beginning on July 1, 2027, increases revenue to the DRIVES account by redirecting $2 of each late vehicle registration fee from the HUTF to the DRIVES account and, consistent with current law, crediting the remainder of the fees to the HUTF (sections 1, 2, and 4 of the bill); ! Increases revenue to the DRIVES account by authorizing the department of revenue, beginning on August 12, 2026, to charge a fee for an individual who fails to appear at a scheduled appointment for a driver's license, identification card, or related service or who cancels a scheduled appointment within the 24-hour period preceding the appointment time, and crediting this fee to the DRIVES account (section 3); and ! Beginning on July 1, 2026, increases revenue to the DRIVES account by redirecting fees for special vehicle registrations for personalized license plates from the HUTF to the DRIVES account, except that, consistent with current law, $2 of each fee is remitted to the county general fund (sections 1, 2, and 5). | NO | This bill aims to increase funding for the Colorado DRIVE account by diverting $2 from each late vehicle registration fee, also charging a fee for individuals who miss or cancel appointments within 24 hours of the scheduled time. CUT overwhelmingly voted no on this bill, citing that DRIVES already takes money from HUTF which was intended for road maintenance. CUT objects to the use of the Safety Clause. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Mandy Lindsay (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1102 | |||
| HB1104 | Credit Agency Voter Address Verification | The bill requires the secretary of state (secretary) to cause to be conducted an annual change of address search of the computerized statewide voter registration list (statewide list) using a third-party credit bureau (credit bureau) to verify voters' address information. All electors in the statewide list are included in the search, except participants in the state address confidentiality program and electors, including first responders, enrolled as confidential voters. The secretary is allowed to transmit to the credit bureau only electors' names, birth years, and residential addresses. Within 30 days of receipt, the credit bureau must compare this information to its database and identify any discrepancy in address information. Within 30 days of this comparison, the credit bureau must create and transmit to the secretary a list of all electors with a discrepancy in address information, including the address information for each elector from the credit bureau's database. The secretary must then distribute this information to the relevant county clerks and recorders for further verification and possible action, in their discretion and in accordance with existing law. Prior to transmitting any voter registration information, the secretary must retain the credit bureau in accordance with the state "Procurement Code" and enter into an agreement that: ! Acknowledges and complies with the technological security measures previously developed by the secretary to prevent unauthorized access to the computerized statewide voter registration list; ! Acknowledges and complies with the technological security requirements for the exchange or transfer of data related to voter registration between the secretary and any other agency as if the credit bureau is such an agency; ! Prohibits the credit bureau from selling, disclosing, or otherwise releasing the voter registration information transmitted by the secretary. The secretary may establish rules necessary to implement and administer the address verification program. | YES | This bill mandates that the Secretary of State will annually conduct a change of address search for all registered voters using a third party credit bureau, except for those enrolled as confidential voters or those enrolled in the address confidentiality program, including first responders. CUT unanimously voted yes on this bill. This could substantially clean up the voter rolls in this state, potentially eliminating voters fraudulently registered at fake addresses. Currently, the main cross-check is the USPS, the DMV, and the SSA. Credit bureaus will have more accurate information and will be able to do this in a fraction of the time. This was done by a County Clerk in Colorado Springs, and the results were significant. | Dead | House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 02/23/2026 | Mary Bradfield (R)*, Cleave Simpson (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1104 | |||
| HB1107 | Health Care in Regulated Facilities | Sections 1 and 4 of the bill establish information disclosure requirements for a licensed facility that advertises, markets, promotes, or offers services, including memory care services, for individuals with dementia and dementia-related conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. The bill refers to such a facility or agency as a "dementia care facility". The bill requires the department of public health and environment (department), in consultation with the state long-term care ombudsman or the ombudsman's designee, to create a dementia care services information form (form) by January 1, 2027. The form must include fields for the disclosure of certain information regarding a dementia care facility's dementia care services, including the facility's: ! Dementia training requirements for staff that are in addition to statutory training requirements; ! Guidelines for using restraints; and ! Security features and procedures for addressing the needs of residents with dementia. The bill authorizes the department to regularly review the form and update it as needed. After creating or subsequently updating the form, the department must provide the form to every dementia care facility in the state. The bill requires a dementia care facility to complete the form with responsive, accurate, and complete information regarding the facility's dementia care services. Beginning July 1, 2027, every dementia care facility must: ! Provide its completed form to every individual who contacts the facility seeking dementia care services; ! Review and update the form when a change in information occurs to ensure that the facility's information provided on the form is current, complete, and correct; ! Publish the facility's current version of the completed form on the facility's website; and ! At all times, maintain on the facility's premises and have available for inspection a copy of the facility's completed form with the facility's most current information and produce the form upon request by the department during a survey or inspection of the facility. The bill establishes a facility's violation of the last itemized requirements regarding the form as a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". Currently, the department has the power to establish and maintain by rule a medication administration program in certain licensed or regulated facilities. Current law requires the department of human services, the behavioral health administration, the department of health care policy and financing, and the department of corrections to develop and conduct a medication administration program in certain types of residential, assisted living, and correctional facilities. Sections 5 and 6 modify the definition of "administration" to include administration of medication specifically by injection and allow a licensed practical nurse (LPN) or a certified nurse aide (CNA) to administer medication by injection as part of a medication administration program if the LPN or CNA receives education and training on administering medication by injection. The bill requires the department, in consultation with the state board of nursing, to establish by rule the education and training required for an LPN or a CNA to obtain the authorization created by the bill to administer medication by injection. A facility may not require that a registered nurse be on site as a prerequisite to an LPN or CNA administering medication by injection. The bill also adds all facilities and agencies licensed and regulated by the department to the list of specified facilities that can have a medication administration program. Sections 2 and 3 modify the scope of practice for CNAs to include the administration of medication by injection as authorized under the bill. | NO | This bill requires facilities that offer services for individuals with dementia to provide specific information about their care services, by using a standardized form to include details on staff training and security measures. CUT overwhelmingly voted no on this bill. Facilities under the CDPHE guidelines are already in place. Any family placing a member in a Memory Care Facility will ask for this information without the use of a standardized form. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/12/2026 House Floor) | 03/12/2026 | Lisa Feret (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)* | 1 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1107 | |||
| HB1111 | Pesticide Product Disposal & Container Recycling | The bill creates the pesticide product disposal and container recycling enterprise (enterprise) in the department of agriculture. The board of directors of the enterprise consists of the members of the state agricultural commission. The enterprise is tasked with developing and administering a program for the disposal of pesticide products and the recycling of pesticide product containers (program). Along with providing these business services, the program must: ! Organize pesticide product disposal and container recycling events for commercial applicators and private applicators across the state; ! Provide outreach and education to commercial applicators and private applicators on proper and safe disposal and recycling practices and the services provided by the program; and ! Provide certain business services to an applicant that registers a pesticide product with the commissioner of agriculture for sale or distribution in the state (applicant). The enterprise operates as a government-owned business imposing: ! A pesticide product disposal fee for each pesticide product that is disposed of through the program; and ! A pesticide registration product disposal and container recycling fee on each applicant. The fees are credited to the pesticide product disposal and container recycling enterprise cash fund for use by the enterprise to carry out the program. Money credited to the fund is subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly. | NO | This bill establishes the Pesticide Product Disposal and Container Recycling Enterprise within the Department of Agriculture, overseen by a board of directors within the State Agricultural Commission, to manage a program for the safe disposal of pesticide products and the recycling of their containers. CUT is AGAINST this measure as it creates another unelected enterprise collecting fees and issuing bonds without accountability to voters. Further, pesticide disposal and container recycling is currently managed through a combination of local county programs, commercial services, federal/state hazardous waste rules (under RCRA via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment - CDPHE), and specific options for agricultural/commercial users. | In Committee | House Finance Hearing (00:00:00 3/26/2026 Room 0112) | 03/26/2026 | Tisha Mauro (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1111 | |||
| HB1113 | Modifications to Elections | The bill modifies the "Uniform Election Code of 1992" (code) and the "Colorado Open Records Act" as follows: ! Regarding elections generally, includes a division of youth corrections identification card or correspondence from a county sheriff indicating that an elector is confined in jail or detention in the definition of "identification" for purposes of the code; repeals the definition of "political party district"; modifies the definition of video security surveillance recording; repeals an obsolete provision related to past district elections; and requires each county clerk and recorder (clerk) to set operational hours for the clerk's office; ! Regarding the qualification and registration of electors, requires and specifies the information institutions of higher education must provide to students by email, on the 15th day and final day before an election, or posting on campus concerning voting, voter eligibility, and registration; requires the clerk, rather than an election judge, to provide an affidavit to an elector to correct an error in the elector's affiliation recorded in the statewide database; modifies the language concerning preregistration of a high school student; specifies that the principal of a public high school or their designee who assists in preregistration and registration to vote are high school liaisons, rather than deputy registrars, and eliminates certain filing requirements; and makes the secretary of state (secretary), rather than the clerk, responsible for cancelling certain registrations pursuant to existing law; ! Regarding presidential electors, specifies that if a presidential or vice-presidential candidate dies or withdraws as a candidate after accepting the nomination of a political party but prior to the meeting of presidential electors, an elector's vote for the presidential candidate or vice-presidential candidate refers to the successor candidate nominated by the political party; ! Regarding congressional vacancy elections, modifies notice, preparation, and conduct of elections; requires elections to be concurrent with a primary or general election if the vacancy occurs between 150 and 90 days of such election; requires elections to be conducted according to provisions for general elections; and specifies the arrangement of names on the ballot; ! Regarding access to the ballot by candidates, clarifies that no person is eligible to be a candidate for more than one office only if both offices are to be voted on in the same election; modifies the timeline for nomination of minor political party candidates; and eliminates the requirement that a candidate file a written acceptance of a nomination by mail, fax, or hand delivery; ! Regarding notice and preparation of elections, clarifies that a voter service and polling center (VSPC) that experiences a shortage of supplies, including ballots, shall not close and may be required to remain open longer on election day; specifies that, in addition to existing designation by sign requirements, a VSPC on the campus of an institution of higher education must be identified and described in signs conspicuously posted at the student center and in an email sent to all enrolled students; and allows the clerk of any county with 1,000 or more active electors, upon consultation with the board of county commissioners, to adopt an electronic or electromechanical voting system; ! Regarding election judges, changes the age eligibility requirements for a student election judge from 16 to 15 and expands the methods for notice and acceptance of an election judge appointment; ! Regarding the conduct of elections, repeals the requirement for an election judge to proclaim the polls are open or will be closed in 30 minutes on election day; modifies the 2-hour period that eligible electors are entitled to be absent from work to vote from only on election day to any day when VSPCs are open; allows an elector to take printed or written materials of their choice into a VSPC as a resource for voting; creates new reporting requirements for counties with one or more VSPCs experiencing a wait time in excess of one hour; creates a requirement for a public hearing regarding such VSPCs to be conducted by the secretary in coordination with the reporting clerk; recognizes other significant issues, in addition to a software or hardware malfunction, that may make counting ballots with electronic vote-tabulating equipment impracticable; and creates a requirement for a reporting county to include certain additional information in its next proposed election plan; ! Regarding mail ballot elections, modifies mail ballot delivery times; requires a minimum number of hours for in-person voting at a county jail or detention center based on the number of beds available; modifies the timeline for submission and approval of proposed election plans; allows the secretary to request modification of an election plan and adds requirements for the submission of such a modified plan; changes the enrolled-student threshold from 2,000 to 1,000 for purposes of requiring a drop box on campus and requires a drop box on the campus of private institutions of higher education in addition to state institutions; and requires a clerk who fails to send a signature verification form within the 2-day deadline to send the signature verification by overnight mail or hand delivery; ! Regarding challenges to registration, repeals the provision for any registered elector to challenge the registration of another person for illegal or fraudulent registration; ! Regarding election returns, clarifies the ministerial nature of a canvass board's duty to certify the abstract of votes cast upon confirmation that the ballots have been reconciled; ! Regarding vacancies in office, requires the governor to appoint a person who is a member of the same political party as the former United States senator to fill a vacancy in that office; and clarifies that a person appointed to fill a partisan office vacancy serves only until the next general election, at which time the remainder of the vacant term, if any, is filled by election; and ! Regarding election offenses, clarifies the offense of voter interference occurs when a person interferes with a voter within 100 feet of a polling or drop-off location or drop box; clarifies that offenses involving a false slate of presidential electors extends to lists of electors voting and votes for candidates for president and vice president of the United States, or their successors. The bill amends the "Colorado Open Records Act" to make language gender neutral and specify that a designated election official is not required to cover or redact from ballot markings or messages voluntarily made by an elector. | NO | The bill modifies the "Uniform Election Code of 1992" (code) and the "Colorado Open Records Act". CUT is loudly against this bill as it is a sweeping omnibus election bill making dozens of changes to how our state conducts elections. This gigantic bill makes a good deal of changes including: more time to turn in ballots, elimination of registered elector's challenges to another voter's eligibility, allowing election judges as young as 15 years old, lengthening ballot circulation between 18 and 29 days. This bill needs to be killed. Election transparency and accountability are premier, and this bill does nothing of the sort! | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs | 03/06/2026 | Emily Sirota (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Kyle Brown (D), Sean Camacho (D), Monica Duran (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Junie Joseph (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Javier Mabrey (D), Matt Martinez (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Amy Paschal (D), Jacqueline Phillips (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Brianna Titone (D), Elizabeth Velasco (D), Steven Woodrow (D), Yara Zokaie (D) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1113 | |||
| HB1114 | Allowed Minimum Lot Size for Subject Jurisdictions | The bill requires that, on or after October 1, 2031, a subject jurisdiction shall not require that a parcel have an area larger than 2,000 square feet if the parcel's residential use is limited to a single family home. The bill exempts certain types of parcels from this requirement. | NO | This bill mandates that any local government, referred to as a “subject jurisdiction,” cannot require a parcel of land to be larger than 2,000 square feet if it is intended for a single-family home. CUT unanimously opposes this bill. This is another effort of the State Government to take over local government zoning. This is an outrageous intrusion into local government affairs. CUT objects to the use of the Safety Clause. | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing | 03/02/2026 | Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Matt Ball (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D), Meg Froelich (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Javier Mabrey (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Emily Sirota (D) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1114 | |||
| HB1117 | Temporary Marijuana Hospitality Permit | The bill creates the state temporary hospitality event permits (hospitality permit) where marijuana may be consumed, but not sold or distributed, at the event premises for a temporary hospitality event (event). Other licensees are permitted to participate in the event. To be issued a hospitality permit, the applicant must hold an active marijuana hospitality business license, apply for the hospitality permit, and pay the application fee. Application standards are set. The state licensing authority sets the application fee to offset the direct and indirect costs of issuing a hospitality permit. A marijuana hospitality business or a participating licensee is prohibited from: ! Operating an event for longer than 72 hours; ! Hosting more than 15 events per year; ! Selling, transferring, or distributing marijuana at the event premises during an event; and ! Transferring the hospitality permit to another person. To hold an event at a specific event premises, the applicant must apply for and be issued an event premises permit (premises permit) by the local licensing authority. Standards are set for the application process. To qualify for a premises permit, the licensee must demonstrate that the event premises comply with applicable zoning, fire, and public health laws and comply with the bill. Standards are set for an application for and the issuance of the premises permit. In order for event premises to be used, the local jurisdiction must adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing events within the jurisdiction. The local jurisdiction may impose reasonable conditions and limitations. If a premises permit application is denied, the applicant may request a hearing within 7 days after the denial. If a hearing is requested, the local licensing authority shall hold a hearing to determine if the denial is justified. The local licensing authority sets the fee to issue a premises permit. The state licensing authority must adopt rules. Both the state and local licensing authorities may enforce the bill and marijuana laws at the events and on the event premises. The state licensing authority and a local licensing authority may separately or jointly inspect permitted events or event premises. | NO | This bill establishes temporary marijuana hospitality permits, allowing licensed marijuana hospitality businesses to host events where marijuana can be consumed but is not sold or distributed. CUT is wholeheartedly against this measure. The history of legalized recreational marijuana use in Colorado has demonstrated that it has not been a good decision for the people of Colorado. More crime, homelessness, domestic abuse, decreasing work ethics, and lower moral standards are just some of the negative outcomes. | In Committee | House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Finance | 03/05/2026 | Naquetta Ricks (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1117 | |||
| HB1120 | Mobile Home Property Taxation | The mobile home taxation task force (task force) was created in to examine and make recommendations concerning constitutional defects in the process for collection of delinquent mobile home property taxes. The task force was also charged with studying existing laws for titling, tax valuation for assessment, and other mobile home tax-related issues and recommending changes to promote fair, equitable, efficient, and effective practices for valuation, titling, and taxation. Section 1 of the bill clarifies the definition of mobile home and increases, for property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, the value threshold for the mobile home property tax exemption from $28,000 to $52,000, adjusted upward for inflation. For property tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2027, the property tax administrator is required to calculate and publish the inflation-adjusted actual value threshold for the exemption. Section 2 requires that notice of delinquent property taxes on a mobile home be written in English and at least the 5 additional languages most commonly spoken in the mobile home owner's community; except that, if the mobile home owner is known to speak a particular language other than English, notice must be provided in English and the particular language other than English spoken by the mobile home owner. This multilingual notice must be sent by certified mail and personally delivered to the mobile home. Section 3 modifies the process for collection of delinquent property taxes on a mobile home by eliminating the distraint sale of mobile homes and instead requiring a county treasurer to follow a tax lien sale and public auction procedure to obtain title to a mobile home similar to the procedures required to obtain a treasurer's deed to real property. Section 3 extends the redemption period for mobile home owners to a minimum of 3 years, plus any time prior to the issuance of a certificate of title to their mobile homes. Like a real property owner, an individual who both owns a mobile home and is a person with a disability is also allowed an extended redemption period of up to 9 years from the issuance of title to their mobile home if the owner is under a legal disability at the time the title is issued. | NO | The mobile home taxation task force (task force) was created to examine and make recommendations concerning constitutional defects in the process for collection of delinquent mobile home property taxes. The task force was also charged with studying existing laws for titling, tax valuation for assessment, and other mobile home tax-related issues and recommending changes to promote fair, equitable, efficient, and effective practices for valuation, titling, and taxation. The CUT board was almost unanimous voting NO. While the board supports tax relief, the reducing of taxes for some is not fair to other property taxpayers. Property tax pays for schools and local government; mobile homeowners and conventional property owners both receive benefit, thus both should share the tax burden. The use of the Safety Clause for this bill is wholly inappropriate. | In Committee | House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 03/06/2026 | Matt Martinez (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Kyle Brown (D), Michael Carter (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Naquetta Ricks (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Katie Stewart (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1120 | |||
| HB1121 | Public Accessibility of Emissions Records | Beginning January 1, 2028, the bill requires a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a building, structure, facility, or installation that emits or may emit an air pollutant (owner or operator) to make all emissions records that the owner or operator is required by state or federal law to maintain (records) publicly available and accessible on the owner or operator's public website. Except in certain circumstances, the owner or operator is required to update the records following the same schedule as the records are made available to the state or the United States. These requirements apply only to records that are generated on or after December 1, 2027. | NO | This bill was an automatic “NO”, right out of the chute, due to the wholly unnecessary use of the Safety Clause. Other objections include that the enumerated offenses are loosely defined, with heavy and onerous taxes, masquerading as ‘fees’. A business killer and jobs killer all in one ugly package. | Dead | House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely | 02/26/2026 | Lorena García (D)*, Bob Marshall (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)* | 1 | 8 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1121 | |||
| HB1126 | Requirements for Firearms Dealers | 03/02/2026 | Under existing law, a firearms dealer (dealer) must obtain a state permit in order to engage in the business of dealing in firearms. The bill clarifies that a state permit is required for a dealer to transfer firearms. Under existing law, in order to be issued a state permit, a dealer must not have had a firearms dealer license or permit or a firearm possession permit revoked, suspended, or denied for good cause within years before submitting a state permit application (prior license requirement) and must not have violated any state or federal law concerning the possession, purchase, or sale of firearms in the 3 years before applying for the state permit (prior violation requirement). The bill clarifies that the prior license and prior violation requirements apply to an individual possessing, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the dealer, known as a "responsible person" of the dealer. The bill makes the dealer training requirements apply to responsible persons. The bill makes provisions related to a dealer's employees who handle firearms also apply to any individual, including an independent contractor, who performs an employee's duties, whether paid or unpaid. The bill permits the department of revenue (department) to fine a dealer up to $100,000 for a second or subsequent violation of certain dealer requirements. Under existing state law, dealers are subject to record-keeping requirements involving pistols and revolvers sold, rented, or exchanged at retail. The bill makes the record-keeping requirements apply to all retail transactions involving any firearm other than destructive devices and clarifies that dealers may keep the records electronically. The bill requires a dealer to secure large-capacity magazines in the dealer's possession. A dealer's place of business must have security features designed to prevent unauthorized entry installed on each exterior door and window of the place of business, have interior lighting that is sufficient to identify characteristics of a person on surveillance video, and be equipped with a security alarm system that includes video surveillance of each door and any area of the business in which firearms are kept. The bill requires a dealer to report the theft or loss of a firearm to the department. | NO | The bill clarifies and adds new procedures and requirements for firearms dealers under the state permitting program in the Department of Revenue. CUT unanimously opposes this bill. Our legislature is so immersed in "Control and tax" theology, that they seem to feel compelled to expand on controls and taxes already regulated by the Federal government and the state. Interestingly, the Fiscal Note states that there have been zero convictions or sentences for this offence. This leads one to conclude that the gun shops have been trying to comply with these rules and that the legislature only wants to run gun shops out of business. This bill imposes more expensive requirements for intrusion detection and prevention plus a horrendous $100,000 penalty for violation of rules. There doesn’t ever seem to be enough control to suit this legislature, particularly with respect to the 2nd Amendment. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Emily Sirota (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1126 | ||
| HB1129 | Gas Utility Service | The bill requires a gas distribution utility (utility) to exempt carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the combustion of gas by residential customers from the utility's clean heat plan filed with the public utilities commission (commission). A utility must exclude residential carbon dioxide emissions from the baseline and projected emissions calculations used in the utility's clean heat plan. If a utility has already submitted a clean heat plan to the commission prior to the effective date of the bill, the utility may submit a revised clean heat plan to the commission that excludes residential carbon dioxide emissions from the utility's baseline and projected emissions calculations. The bill requires the commission to adopt rules that allow a utility to submit a revised clean heat plan. The bill permits a utility to recover costs related to a system safety and integrity project, which is defined as a certain type of project that improves the safety or integrity of the gas distribution system. The bill repeals a prohibition on a gas utility providing incentives to customers for establishing gas service to a property. | YES | This bill requires gas distribution utilities to exclude carbon dioxide emissions from residential customers when calculating their clean heat plans. Additionally, it repeals a previous prohibition on gas utilities offering incentives to customers for establishing gas service to a property. CUT unanimously votes yes on this bill. It is clearly a step in the right direction to turn back the narrative of Net Zero. The natural gas used in stoves, boilers, and furnaces is efficient, reliable, abundant, and affordable. | Dead | House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely | 02/19/2026 | Carlos Barron (R)*, Ava Flanell (R)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Byron Pelton (R)* | 1 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1129 | |||
| HB1140 | Local Government Impact Hearings | 02/09/2026 | The bill allows the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the minority leader of the senate (legislative leadership) to each select up to 5 legislative measures to have a local government impact hearing during a regular legislative session. A local government impact hearing is a dedicated time that is at least one hour and not more than 2 hours at the beginning of a scheduled committee hearing for a legislative measure during which one or more local governments or organizations that represent local governments may present testimony to the committee regarding the potential effects of the legislative measure on local governments within the state. If a member of legislative leadership selects a legislative measure to have a local government impact hearing, the member must: ! Determine which committee of reference will hold the local government impact hearing if the legislative measure is assigned to more than one committee of reference; and ! Notify the chair of the applicable committee of reference and the staff of the legislative council that the legislative measure will have a local government impact hearing. If a member of the legislative leadership selects a legislative measure to have a local government impact hearing, the staff of the legislative council is required to include the local government impact hearing on the calendar as part of the regularly scheduled legislative hearing for the legislative measure in the applicable committee of reference. During the local government impact hearing, one or more local governments or statewide organizations that represents local governments may provide testimony regarding the impact of the legislative measure on local governments for the duration of the local government impact hearing without other limitations on the length of testimony. The bill requires the director of research of the legislative council to develop procedures for the implementation of local government impact hearings. | YES | This bill seeks to offer local governments opportunities to make their case(s) for or against a bill, and to call attention to how their constituents would be affected. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Ty Winter (R)*, Rod Pelton (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1140 | ||
| HB1144 | Prohibit Three-Dimensional Printing Firearms & Components | The bill defines 3-dimensional printing to mean additive and subtractive manufacturing. The bill prohibits each of the following: ! Manufacturing or producing a firearm, unfinished frame or receiver, large-capacity magazine, or rapid-fire device (firearm or firearm component) by 3-dimensional printing. The prohibition does not apply to a federally licensed firearm manufacturer. ! Possessing, in circumstances that indicate intent to manufacture a firearm or firearm component in violation of state law or intent to distribute, digital instructions that may be used to program a 3-dimensional printer or a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine to manufacture or produce a firearm or firearm component. The prohibition does not apply to a federally licensed firearm manufacturer who possesses digital instructions in circumstances that indicate intent to manufacture a firearm or firearm component. ! Distributing digital instructions that may be used to program a 3-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine to manufacture or produce a firearm or firearm component. The bill does not prohibit possession of digital instructions in circumstances that indicate intent to distribute to, or distributing digital instructions to, a federally licensed firearm manufacturer. A violation of any of the prohibitions in the bill is a class 1 misdemeanor; except that a second or subsequent offense is a class 5 felony. | NO | This bill prohibits three-dimensional manufacturing of firearms, possession of digital instructions for three-dimensional printing of firearms and distribution of digital firearm production instructions. Not only is this bill an infringement on the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms but also violates the first amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press in its outrageous prohibition to merely possess instructions for 3-D printing of firearms. In this the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that initiated the War of Independence, we are reminded of how early inhabitants manufactured and used personally owned firearms to win our many freedoms. Once again, we face a government that wants to disarm its population. The technical note to the fiscal note indicates that one person has been convicted of a comparable crime - hardly significant. The use of the safety clause is a slap in the face to the citizens to redress their government. | Crossed Over | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs | 03/05/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Lindsay Gilchrist (D)*, Tom Sullivan (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Kyle Brown (D), Sean Camacho (D), Michael Carter (D), Cecelia Espenoza (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Junie Joseph (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Gretchen Rydin (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Jenny Willford (D), Steven Woodrow (D), Yara Zokaie (D) | 3 | 7 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1144 | |||
| HB1146 | Allow Approved Facility Schools Participate in Public Employees' Retirement Association | The bill includes approved facility schools in the definition of "employer" for purposes of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) and allows an approved facility school to apply to the PERA board to affiliate with PERA. | NO | The bill allows facility schools to affiliate with the Public Employees’ Retirement Association’s Local Government Division. PERA is teetering on the brink of insolvency. More participants add more burden to the system, therefore more financial risk to the taxpayers who are the ultimate pension guarantors. PERA was set up for government employees. | Crossed Over | Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole | 03/10/2026 | Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Jacqueline Phillips (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Sean Camacho (D), Michael Carter (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Lori Garcia Sander (R), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Meghan Lukens (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Katie Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D) | 3 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1146 | |||
| HB1174 | School Finance Mid-Year Adjustments | Joint Budget Committee. Compared to what was anticipated when appropriations were established in the 2025 regular legislative session for the 2025-26 budget year, the general assembly finds that for the 2025-26 budget year: ! The actual funded pupil count and the at-risk pupil count are lower than anticipated; ! The local share of total program funding is higher than anticipated; and ! Therefore, the general assembly intends to decrease the state share of districts' total program funding by $103,472,508 for the 2025-26 budget year. Under current law, there are 2 total program formulas to finance public schools, commonly referred to as the old formula and the new formula. For the 2025-26 budget year, a district's total program is the greater of: ! The district's total program amount for the 2024-25 budget year; or ! The amount calculated for the 2025-26 budget year under the old formula plus an amount equal to 15% of the difference between the amounts calculated between the old formula and the new formula. The bill clarifies that for the 2025-26 budget year, if the calculation under the new formula is less than the calculation under the old formula, then that district's total program for the 2025-26 budget year is the greater of: ! The district's total program amount for the 2024-25 budget year; or ! The amount calculated for the 2025-26 budget year under the old formula. | YES | The bill makes mid-year adjustments to the 2025 School Finance Act to account for updates to the enrollment and local share estimates used in the original appropriation. This is a commonsense bill that reduces state funding to public education based on declining enrollment. The public needs to watch school boards to see how they implement this budget reduction. Their choices are: eliminate administration positions, float a mill levy increase, eliminate teaching positions, cut spending on facilities, materials or equipment. | Crossed Over | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/20/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Julie McCluskie (D) | 5 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1174 | |||
| HB1175 | State Education Fund Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act & Colorado Teacher of the Year Program | Joint Budget Committee. Under existing law, money is annually transferred from the state education fund to the Colorado teacher of the year fund for the Colorado teacher of the year program and to the early literacy fund to fund specified purposes in support of the "Colorado READ Act". The bill discontinues the annual transfers and instead permits the general assembly to appropriate money from the state education fund for the Colorado teacher of the year program and requires the general assembly to appropriate at least $34 million from the state education fund for the same specified purposes in support of the "Colorado READ Act". The bill repeals the Colorado teacher of the year fund and the early literacy fund, effective September 1, 2027. | NO | This bill modifies how funds are allocated from the State Education Fund, which is a constitutionally established fund in Colorado. Instead of automatically transferring money each year to the Colorado Teacher of the Year Program and the Early Literacy Fund (which supports the "Colorado READ Act" for early reading success), the bill allows the General Assembly to appropriate money for these programs. The bill does not appear to accomplish anything. It merely changes the funding source for a program that is a total failure. The Safety Clause is absurd. | Crossed Over | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/20/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Ryan Gonzalez (R), Sheila Lieder (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Scott Slaugh (R), Katie Stewart (D), Ron Weinberg (R), Ty Winter (R) | 6 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1175 | |||
| HB1177 | End Nursing Provider Wage Enhancement Payments | CONCERNING ENDING WAGE ENHANCEMENT SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS TO NURSING HOME PROVIDERS, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, REDUCING AN APPROPRIATION. | DNR | The bill prohibits the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing from implementing a wage enhancement for select nursing home providers. CUT is equally divided, half favoring and half opposing this bill. Those in favor like the spending reduction from repeal of wage subsidies. Those opposing voiced concern about distortions of the health care market and potential for losing staff again. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | Governor Signed | 02/27/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Julie McCluskie (D) | 6 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1177 | |||
| HB1178 | Expenditures in Excess of Appropriations | Joint Budget Committee. Under current law, the controller may allow any department, institution, or agency of the state, including any institution of higher education, to make an expenditure in excess of the amount authorized by an item of appropriation for the fiscal year if certain conditions are satisfied. One of those conditions is that the overexpenditure is necessary due to unforeseen circumstances arising while the general assembly is not meeting in a regular or special session. The bill modifies that condition to also include when an overexpenditure is necessary due to a lapse in a federal appropriation that the joint budget committee determines is reasonably likely to occur while the general assembly is not meeting in regular or special session during which such overexpenditure can be legislatively addressed. The bill also makes a conforming amendment to the process by which the general assembly can remove the spending restriction that the controller attaches to an overexpenditure. If a supplemental appropriation is enacted for the overexpenditure or a portion of it, the bill requires that: ! The controller's spending restriction is released in full; and ! The department, institution, or agency of the state's overexpenditure authority ends. | NO | The bill authorizes over-expenditures due to lapses in federal funding that the Joint Budget Committee determines are likely to occur when the General Assembly is not in session. This bill changes language from “MAY" allow state controller to "PERMITS" to authorize over- expenditures due to lapses in federal funding. No examples or data have been provided regarding the amount of money the state controller has allocated previously. This situation needs to be decided by the legislative body and not put on auto-pilot. Use of the safety clause is unjustified and inappropriate. | Crossed Over | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/20/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Monica Duran (D), Julie McCluskie (D) | 5 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1178 | |||
| HB1179 | General Fund Transfer to Information Technology Capital Account | Joint Budget Committee. On April 1, 2026, the bill transfers $3,646,420 from the general fund to the information technology capital account of the capital construction fund. | DNR | This bill directs the state treasurer and controller to transfer $3,646,420 from the general fund, which is the state’s main operating budget to the information technology capital account of the capital construction fund. CUT lacked consensus, due to ack of specificity. Those in opposition commented the bill did not have language specifically specifying how the money would be spent or how it would benefit the taxpayer. Could some money go to Glock cameras? A transfer in the amount of this large sum of money should have a line item summary for transparency. This in and of itself is just good accounting procedure. The use of the safety clause is inappropriate. | Crossed Over | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/20/2026 | Emily Sirota (D)*, Rick Taggart (R)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Monica Duran (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Amy Paschal (D), Ron Weinberg (R), Yara Zokaie (D) | 5 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1179 | |||
| HB1183 | Sunset Pet Animal Care & Facilities Act | 03/09/2026 | Sunset Process - House Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resources Committee. The bill implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its 2025 sunset review of the "Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act" (PACFA) as follows: ! Sections 1 and 2 of the bill continue the commissioner of agriculture's (commissioner) function of licensing pet animal facilities in accordance with the PACFA for 15 years, until 2041; ! Section 3 amends the PACFA's pet animal advisory committee (committee) membership structure by requiring the commissioner, on and after January 1, 2027, to appoint members with certain specifications. Section 3 also specifies that members appointed to the committee on and after January 1, 2027, may serve no more than consecutive terms of 4 years. ! Section 4 prohibits the importation of certain pet animals into the state without a valid certificate of veterinary inspection issued by an accredited veterinarian in the state of origin within 10 days prior to the pet animal's arrival in Colorado; ! Section 5 clarifies that the commissioner is authorized to adopt rules extending the required minimum holding periods for pet animals held by or in the custody of a licensed animal shelter; ! Section 6 removes the current maximum fee amount of $700 for pet animal facility license application fees and permits the commissioner to establish the fee amount by rule, which amount must be based on the direct and indirect costs of processing license applications; ! Section 7 raises the maximum civil penalty amount for a violation of the PACFA or of a rule adopted pursuant to the PACFA from $1,000 per violation to $2,500 per violation; ! Section 8 states that a person that chooses to request a hearing in response to a cease-and-desist order issued by the commissioner for a violation of the PACFA or of a rule adopted pursuant to the PACFA must do so within 30 days after the issuance of the cease-and-desist order; and ! Section 9 relocates the statute that establishes the pet overpopulation authority (authority) so the authority is no longer subject to sunset review as part of the PACFA. Sections 10 through 13 make conforming amendments. | NO | This bill continues the Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act (PACFA) in the Colorado Department of Agriculture for 15 years, until September 1, 2041, and implements other recommendations from the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) 2025 sunset review of the program. These include forming a replacement commission, removing the maximum license fee (currently $700) and increasing penalties from $1500 to $2500. CUT opposes any long extension of Sunset provisions – these programs should be reviewed much more frequently as past reviews have shown needed revisions. CUT is also concerned about concentrating so much authority in the commissioner, including setting license fees (with no max) and the selection of the entire advisory committee. | In Committee | House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations | 03/09/2026 | Monica Duran (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Byron Pelton (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1183 | ||
| HB1190 | Alcohol Beverage Manufacturer Sales | 03/09/2026 | The bill creates an expanded sales room permit, which authorizes a manufacturer, limited winery, or wholesaler that manufactures beer (producer) to: ! Operate a restaurant at the producer's sales room; or ! Sell or provide alcohol beverages that are not manufactured by the permit holder by the drink for consumption at the sales room if the alcohol beverage is a craft product. A producer must obtain a separate expanded sales room permit for each location. To obtain an expanded sales room permit, a producer must apply to the state licensing authority. To operate an expanded sales room, the producer must: ! Have sandwiches and light snacks available for consumption on the premises; and ! Not sell at the sales room the authorized alcohol beverages in an amount in excess of 50% of the total sales of alcohol beverages. The state licensing authority will establish the application fee for an expanded sales room permit. The bill authorizes a vintner's restaurant licensee to sell and ship wine directly to an individual who has joined a winery club. To create a winery club, the vintner's restaurant licensee must obtain and retain, for as long as the club is active, each member's name, address, and age and a record of how the member's age was verified. To join a winery club, an individual must apply to the vintner's restaurant that created the winery club. To ship wine to an address, a vintner's restaurant licensee must verify the recipient is a member of the club and that the delivery address is the same address on file for the member. Under current law, a distillery pub licensee may sell its spirits at wholesale in an amount up to 2,700 liters per product per year. The bill raises the limit to 8,100 liters per product per year. | YES | This bill creates an expanded sales room permit, which authorizes a manufacturer, limited winery, or wholesaler that manufactures beer to operate a restaurant at the producer's sales room or sell or provide other craft alcohol beverages that are not manufactured by the permit holder for consumption at the sales room. The bill also authorizes a vintner's restaurant licensee to sell and ship wine directly to an individual who has joined a winery club. CUT supports this bill because it allows craft alcohol producers to expand their business, be more competitive, and potentially hire more people! | In Committee | House Business Affairs & Labor Hearing (13:30:00 3/12/2026 Room 0112) | 03/12/2026 | Matt Martinez (D)*, Matt Soper (R)*, William Lindstedt (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1190 | ||
| HB1202 | Strategy to Reduce & Prevent Homelessness | 03/02/2026 | Section 1 of the bill requires the department of local affairs, as part of its SMART Act hearing in January of 2027, to submit and present a proposal for the development of a statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution. The proposal must include a plan that sets forth a timeline, an estimated budget, and a process for developing and implementing a statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution. The proposal must set forth the following components that must be included in the statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution: ! Identification of gaps and barriers that impede access to operational services for individuals experiencing homelessness; ! Identification of state agency-provided housing resources, including utilization rates; ! Recommendations for collaboration between state and local partners to facilitate homelessness response; ! Recommendations for funding and policies that could be implemented at the state level to support homelessness prevention and resolution; ! Recommendations that have been proposed in coordination with continuum of care organizations to improve the implementation of the homeless management information system, data reporting, and coordinated entry systems; ! Updates on regional navigation campuses; and ! Updates on continuum of care organizations. When developing the proposal, the department shall seek and incorporate feedback from a diverse array of stakeholders. Section creates a new type of special district, a multijurisdictional homelessness response authority (authority), which may be created when any combination of local governments enter into an intergovernmental agreement with one another to establish an authority. An authority must: ! Be used by the contracting local governments to reduce and prevent homelessness; and ! Have boundaries that contain the entirety of all the contracting local governments, but nothing more. An authority has several discretionary powers that relate to its ability to coordinate and plan with departments and organizations to reduce and prevent homelessness, including but not limited to the power to provide for the levy of sales or sales and use taxes by the contracting local governments. If the intergovernmental agreement that creates an authority provides for the levy of a sales or sales and use tax by the contracting local governments within the boundaries of the authority: ! Each contracting local government shall submit to its registered electors a ballot question that relates to the tax and that requires any new tax revenue approved through the ballot question to be used solely for the planning, coordination, and implementation of regional strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness; ! The intergovernmental agreement must provide for a case in which the electors in some but not all of the contracting local governments approve the collection of the sales or sales and use tax at the general election; and ! The intergovernmental agreement must provide that all or part of the taxes levied are distributed to the authority. An authority may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the purposes of planning, coordinating, and implementing regional strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness, may issue revenue or general obligation bonds, and may pledge its revenue and revenue-raising powers for the payment of such bonds. Section 3 allows a county to designate a portion of documentary filing fees, which are collected for filing documents associated with the grant or conveyance of real property, to be transferred to the county government or a housing authority for the purpose of developing, preserving, or acquiring affordable housing that: ! Is within the jurisdiction of the county government or housing authority; ! Is aligned with demonstrated community needs; and ! Will be available to individuals experiencing homelessness. | NO | The bill allows for the creation of regional multijurisdictional homelessness response authorities and requires the Department of Local Affairs to conduct planning related to homelessness services. This bill adds a whole new layer of unelected bureaucracy that can inflict debt, taxes and fees. In addition, they can take in gifts, grants and donations opening the system up to corruption. This is structured as another "housing first" scheme which won’t work any better than previous versions. “Housing first” disincentivizes the homeless from self-sufficiency. The last thing we need is MORE government. Let's instead address the need for treating the addictions that so often lead to homelessness. | In Committee | House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 03/09/2026 | Manny Rutinel (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Naquetta Ricks (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D), Kyle Brown (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lindsay Gilchrist (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Eliza Hamrick (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Javier Mabrey (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Jacqueline Phillips (D), Gretchen Rydin (D), Rebekah Stewart (D) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1202 | ||
| HB1203 | Modification of County Commissioner Elections | Currently, in a county with a population of 70,000 or more, the board of county commissioners (board) may consist of 3 or commissioners. If the board consists of 3 commissioners, the county is divided into 3 districts, with one commissioner elected from each district by voters in the district or voters of the whole county. Alternatively, the board may consist of 5 commissioners, in which case the county may be divided into 3 or 5 districts, and the commissioners may be elected pursuant to numerous methods, including by district, at large, or by some combination of both methods. The bill eliminates this discretionary system and instead requires any county with a population of 70,000 or more (covered county) to elect commissioners by one of the following 2 methods: ! commissioners resident in 5 districts elected only by voters resident in those districts; or ! commissioners elected at large using a ranked voting method. The board of a covered county is required to adopt a resolution designating the 2 alternative methods of electing the 5 county commissioners no later than its first regularly scheduled meeting in the calendar year 2027 or its first regularly scheduled meeting in the month following becoming a covered county. The board is required to refer the resolution to the electors of the county at the first general election following its adoption for those electors to select their preferred method of electing the 5 commissioners. A covered county that already elects its commissioners according to one of the 2 alternative methods of election is not required to pass a resolution. A home rule county that elects more than half of its county commissioners by district or using a ranked voting method is exempt from the requirements of the bill. The bill also makes conforming amendments. | NO | This bill seeks to mandate all counties over 70,000 population have at least 5 Commissioners, with the method of election decided at the county level from a menu of 2 options. This bill never identifies any problem being solved, or any issue being improved. CUT is very concerned with state legislator's insatiable appetite to control and/or regulate every living thing in Colorado. Plus, the inclusion of a ranked voting system alternative sneaks in the possibility of non-transparent, non-auditable, and undemocratic Ranked Choice Voting. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Jennifer Bacon (D)*, Bob Marshall (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Jamie Jackson (D)*, Junie Joseph (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Kenny Nguyen (D)*, Manny Rutinel (D)*, Lesley Smith (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1203 | |||
| HB1204 | Senior Cooperative Housing Authority Projects | 03/09/2026 | Real property or buildings used to provide dwelling accommodations that substantially benefit persons with low income (project property) that is owned, leased, or under construction by a local housing authority, or an entity that is partially or wholly owned by a local housing authority, is exempt from property taxation. Section 1 of the bill clarifies that a "senior cooperative housing project" may qualify for such property tax exemption as a "project" of a local housing authority. A "senior cooperative housing project" is defined as a multi-unit residential building or complex occupied by qualifying seniors that is owned by a cooperative or cooperative housing corporation. A "qualifying senior" is an individual who is at least 65 years old and of low income. The affordable rental housing component of property in a public-private partnership between the middle-income housing authority and one or more public or private entities or persons is exempt from property taxation. Section 2 clarifies that a "senior cooperative housing project" that otherwise meets the qualifications and is selected by the authority may qualify for such property tax exemption as an "affordable rental housing project". "Senior cooperative housing project" has the same meaning as in section 1. A "qualifying senior" also has the same meaning as in section 1 and includes an individual who is of middle income. | NO | This bill expands property tax exemptions to senior cooperative housing projects and allows a senior cooperative housing project to qualify as an affordable rental housing project. These are occupied by individuals at least 65 years old and of low income. CUT voted “no” on this bill. Exempting “certain properties” from property tax means other taxpayers must make up for the lost revenue, which is discriminatory. | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/10/2026 House Floor) | 03/10/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Lori Garcia Sander (R)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1204 | ||
| HB1207 | Disclosure of Demographic Workforce Data | 03/02/2026 | The bill requires a private entity conducting business in the state that employs 100 or more workers to include demographic workforce data collected through the United States equal employment opportunity commission's "Employer Information Report" in periodic reports to the secretary of state. | NO | This bill requires employers with 100 or more employees to report demographic workforce data to the Secretary of State. CUT unanimously opposes this bill. The demographic information is already collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It will be costly and time-consuming for businesses with no compensation for their time and money. What does the state need this information for? Will this data help the business to be more successful? Or would the data be used to force D.E.I mandates and penalties on employers? | In Committee | House Appropriations Hearing (08:30:00 3/13/2026 Room 0112) | 03/13/2026 | Jamie Jackson (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1207 | ||
| HB1208 | Sunset Compliance Advisory Panel Air Pollution | 03/02/2026 | Sunset Process - House Energy and Environment Committee. Pursuant to the recommendation in the 2025 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies, the bill continues the compliance advisory panel (panel) to the air pollution control division in the department of public health and environment indefinitely. The panel is scheduled to repeal on September 1, 2026. | NO | This bill continues the existence of the compliance advisory panel. The panel was created to assist small businesses with air pollution regulations and is scheduled to be repealed on Sept.1, 2026. CUT opposes this bill because the state is already on track with the zero-emission mandate. The panel has not met for several years. Why not let the bill sunset? | In Committee | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Junie Joseph (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Lesley Smith (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1208 | ||
| HB1209 | Temporary Decrease Statutory Property Tax Revenue Limits | 03/09/2026 | Current law restricts the annual amount of property tax revenue that a local government or a special district may collect to the amount of property tax revenue collected in the previous year plus 5.5%, with certain adjustments. This statutory limit does not apply to school districts or home rule municipalities. The limit may be waived by voter approval of the voters of the taxing entity (waived jurisdictions). Current law also restricts the annual amount of property tax revenue that a waived jurisdiction may collect to the greatest amount of qualified property tax revenue collected by the taxing entity in a previous property tax year increased by 5.25% multiplied by the number of property tax years in a reassessment cycle. Similarly, the annual amount of property tax revenue that a school district may collect is limited to the greatest amount of the local share of statewide total program property tax revenue collected by a school district in a previous property tax year increased by the greater of 6% multiplied by the number of property tax years in a reassessment cycle or the sum of the percentage by which the general assembly annually increases the statewide base per pupil funding for public education from kindergarten through twelfth grade and the percentage increase in pupil enrollment for both the relevant property tax year and the other property tax year in the same reassessment cycle. Both of these statutory property tax revenue limits may also be waived by voters, except that individual school districts are not able to locally waive their individual property tax limits and, instead, must seek statewide voter approval to waive the school district limit. The bill temporarily reduces the operative percentage adjustments in these 3 statutory property tax revenue limits to 4% for property tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2033. | YES | This bill temporarily reduces the allowable annual increase in property tax revenue for most local governments and special districts from 5.5% to 4%, beginning January 1, 2027, to January 1, 2033. CUT unanimously approves this bill. This bill seems to be well thought out as the limits do not apply to school districts or home rule municipalities. This bill would provide temporary relief from the skyrocketing property value assessments we have received in recent years due to high-inflation assessment periods. CUT very much appreciates that this tax decrease applies equally to all property owners. | Dead | House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely | 03/10/2026 | Larry Suckla (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1209 | ||
| HB1211 | Regulation of Broadband Services | 03/02/2026 | The bill authorizes the public utilities commission (commission) to regulate broadband service and voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) service in the state. The commission may adopt rules related to the quality, safety, and resiliency of broadband services in Colorado. The commission is authorized to conduct evaluations of broadband service facilities and infrastructure and to issue orders that require an internet service provider to take remedial actions to correct unsafe or inadequate service. The commission is required to submit to the general assembly an annual report regarding the quality, safety, and resiliency of broadband and VoIP services. | NO | This bill grants the Public Utilities Commission the authority to regulate broadband services and voice-over-internet protocol, on the grounds that this will “regulate” quality, safety, and reliability of service. CUT unanimously opposed this bill. The free market is already incentivized to solve problems such as outages and quality. Broadband and VoIP are not utilities; they are information services and should not be regulated by the PUC. This would be extremely expensive for the taxpayer for the next two years and to what advantage to consumers? None. | In Committee | House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Hearing (13:30:00 3/11/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/11/2026 | Javier Mabrey (D)*, Tammy Story (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1211 | ||
| HB1214 | Sunset Substance Abuse Treatment Program Licensing | 03/09/2026 | Sunset Process - House Health and Human Services Committee. The Colorado licensing of controlled substances act (act) is set to repeal September 1, 2026. The bill implements the department of regulatory agencies' recommendations to: ! Continue the act until September 1, 2041; ! Modernize the definition of "substance use disorder" in the act to more accurately reflect the type of conditions being treated by behavioral-health-administration-licensed facilities and the practitioners who may diagnose these conditions; ! Adopt a new definition of "withdrawal management" that considers the full spectrum of treatment concepts, and replace the definitions of and references to "detoxification treatment", "maintenance treatment", and "withdrawal treatment" in the act with the term "withdrawal management"; ! Replace the terms "substance use disorder treatment program" and "substance use disorder" with "opioid treatment program" and "opioid use disorder", respectively, as the terms pertain to identity verification for individuals taking part in withdrawal management; and ! Remove defined terms that are no longer referenced in the act. | NO | This bill extends the repeal date for the licensing and record-keeping functions of substance use disorder treatment programs under the Colorado licensing of controlled substances act, from September 1, 2026, to September 1, 2041. CUT unanimously voted no on this bill. Fifteen years is too long to extend licensing and pay 5.1 employees to do it. A significant part of this bill involves changing the verbiage of definitions and terms regarding substance abuse. Taxpayers want to see data that provides metrics of success for substance abuse programs, not definition changes. | In Committee | House Health & Human Services Hearing (13:30:00 3/11/2026 Room 0112) | 03/11/2026 | Regina English (D)*, Jamie Jackson (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1214 | ||
| HB1221 | Tax Expenditure Adjustments | 03/09/2026 | The bill adjusts 3 existing tax expenditures. ! Section 2 of the bill limits the alternative minimum tax credit to income tax years commencing prior to January 1, 2026; ! Section requires a corporation, for purposes of determining their state taxable income for state income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, to add to their federal taxable income the amount, if any, that the taxpayer claimed as a deduction on the taxpayer's federal tax return pursuant to the employee remuneration deduction allowed pursuant to section 162 (m) of the internal revenue code; and ! Section 5 limits the period of time that net operating losses generated in income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, can be carried forward from 20 years to 10 years and limits the amount of losses that may be claimed to 70% rather than 80%. Section 3 creates a new tax credit. The new tax credit allows taxpayers to claim a refundable tax credit, in addition to the child tax credit and the family affordability tax credit, in an amount determined by the amount and age of the taxpayer's children and the taxpayer's income. The total amount of the new tax credit is adjusted annually based on legislative council staff projections, such that the total amount of the new tax credit claimed in an income tax year is projected to be the same as the amount of revenue raised in sections 2, 4, and 5. | NO | This and HB26-1222 are companion bills that have the goal of negating the business tax relief of federal legislation and using the money gained to fund tax credits for poor and middle-class families with children. It is not the role of government to take a federal tax deduction and give to another group. This bill will decrease the effectiveness of federal tax deductions for businesses and encourage business to leave Colorado. This bill picks winners and losers which is not fair. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 03/09/2026 | Emily Sirota (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1221 | ||
| HB1222 | Modify Tax Expenditures | 03/09/2026 | Recent changes to the federal income tax code significantly increased the amount of business-related expenses that may be deducted for federal income tax purposes as follows: ! Expanded the business interest deduction limitation pursuant to section 163 (j) of the internal revenue code (IRC) by adding back depreciation, amortization, and depletion for calculation of adjusted taxable income and determination of the deduction base, resulting in many taxpayers, especially capital intensive businesses, being able to deduct a larger portion of their business interest expense; ! Expanded the bonus depreciation deduction pursuant to section 168 (k) of the IRC by permanently restoring the 100% first-year bonus depreciation deduction for "qualified property" acquired and placed in service on or after January 20, 2025; ! Created an elective 100% depreciation deduction in section (n) of the IRC for "qualified production property", which is property largely tied to manufacturing, production, or refining facilities and that would not otherwise qualify for section 168 (k) bonus depreciation; and ! Created a new section 174A of the IRC that allows taxpayers to immediately deduct domestic research and experimental expenditures paid or incurred during the taxable year, rather than requiring such costs to be capitalized and amortized over time. Because the state income tax is imposed on federal taxable income, these changes to the definition of federal income also exclude these business-related expenses from state income taxation. The bill reverses these changes to the federal tax code for purposes of the state income tax code and creates a new tax credit using the resulting revenue. Sections 2 and 4 of the bill provide, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, that individual and corporate state income taxpayers must add the following to their federal taxable income for purposes of applying the state income tax: ! An amount equal to the federal deduction claimed by the taxpayer for business interest pursuant to the limitation in section 163 (j) of the IRC to the extent the amount exceeds the amount the taxpayer would have been allowed to claim before the limitation was changed as described above; ! An amount equal to the federal deduction claimed by the taxpayer for qualified property depreciation pursuant to section 168 (k) of the IRC to the extent the amount claimed exceeds the amount the taxpayer would have been allowed to claim under section 168 (k) prior to the change described above; except that, the taxpayer may reduce the amount required to be added back by the amount of depreciation the taxpayer would have been allowed to claim for the taxable year with respect to the same property pursuant to any section other than section 168 (k) of the IRC prior to the recent federal changes; ! An amount equal to the federal deduction claimed by the taxpayer for qualified production property depreciation pursuant to section 168 (n) of the IRC; except that, the taxpayer may reduce the amount required to be added back by the amount of depreciation the taxpayer would have been allowed to claim for the taxable year with respect to the same property pursuant to any section other than section 168 (k) of the IRC prior to the recent federal change; and ! An amount equal to the federal deduction claimed by the taxpayer for the income tax year for domestic research and experimental expenditures pursuant to section 174A of the IRC; except that, the taxpayer may reduce the amount required to be added back by the amount of the deduction the taxpayer would have been allowed to claim for the taxable year with respect to the same research and experimental expenditures pursuant to section 174 of the IRC prior to the recent federal changes. Sections 2 and 4 allow taxpayers who are required to make additions to their federal taxable income pursuant to the new provisions to subtract the amounts of their disallowed federal deductions over time, using time periods that reflect how the property or expense would have been treated prior to the recent changes to the federal tax code. Section 3 creates a new tax credit. The new tax credit allows taxpayers to claim a refundable tax credit, in addition to the child tax credit and the family affordability tax credit, in an amount determined by the amount and age of the taxpayer's children and the taxpayer's income. The total amount of the new tax credit is adjusted annually based on legislative council staff projections, such that the total amount of the new tax credit claimed in an income tax year is projected to be the same as the amount of revenue raised in sections 2 and 4. | NO | This bill is extremely complicated, but its goal is to take away money from businesses in Colorado and re-distributing it to families and children. It re-distributes wealth and leads to more of a progressive tax system (unequal protection under the law). Increasing taxes on business hurts everyone downstream with reduction in investment, wage growth, job creation as well as driving businesses out of Colorado. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 03/09/2026 | Lorena García (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1222 | ||
| HB1223 | Modifying Certain Tax Expenditures | 03/09/2026 | Section 2 of the bill creates a new tax credit. The new tax credit allows taxpayers to claim a refundable tax credit, in addition to the child tax credit and the family affordability tax credit, in an amount determined by the amount and age of the taxpayer's children and the taxpayer's income. The total amount of the new tax credit is adjusted annually based on legislative council staff projections, such that the total amount of the new tax credit claimed in an income tax year is projected to be the same as the amount of revenue raised in sections 3 and 4. Beginning January 1, 2027, the bill also repeals the downloaded software sales and use tax exemption so that all software that is available for repeated sale and license qualifies as tangible property and thus is subject to sales and use tax. The bill exempts from sales and use tax downloaded software governed by a negotiable license agreement or developed for use by a particular user. | NO | This is one of 3 bills aimed at increasing business tax payments by decreasing deductions - and then giving the money away to specific taxpayer groups (families with children). The bottom line is a move toward socialism and a clear attempt to buy the votes of low and middle-income parents while punishing businesses. This will discourage businesses and jobs from locating in Colorado. The Safety Clause is particularly insulting as this is a backdoor way of raising taxes without a vote of the people. | In Committee | House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 03/09/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Matt Ball (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1223 | ||
| HB1224 | Protections for Mobile Home Park Residents | 03/09/2026 | The bill establishes and clarifies financial protections for mobile home park residents. A landlord of a mobile home park is required to notify residents that the landlord is temporarily prohibited from increasing rent. Under current law, a landlord is required to send notice to residents when the landlord intends to sell the mobile home park. The bill clarifies what information must be included in the notice that the landlord sends to residents of the park. The notice must include financial and maintenance information related to the rental and operation of the mobile home park and information related to the buyer's offer to purchase the mobile home park. The bill requires the landlord and any potential buyer to conduct the sale of the mobile home park at arms-length and in good faith. The bill establishes certain parameters related to the registration fee that must be paid by a landlord of a mobile home park and limits the amount that the landlord may charge each resident to cover the registration fee at $17. | NO | Bill seeks to impose new requirements on landlords of mobile home parks. Specifically, landlords would be required to notify tenants in writing of any pending sale of the mobile home park, and the notice must include all sales information regarding price and maintenance costs. Owners would be prohibited from removing a tenant for any reason other than violations of local and/or municipal codes. Most fair people oppose this usurpation of property rights. | In Committee | House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Hearing (13:30:00 3/11/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/11/2026 | Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1224 | ||
| HB1226 | Manage Emissions from Electric Generating Units | 03/02/2026 | Section 2 of the bill requires the air quality control commission, no later than December 31, 2029, to adopt a final rule (rule) establishing certain limits on the emission of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide from an electric generating unit (unit) that is owned or operated by an electric utility, is located in the state, and emitted 200 tons or more of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, or both in calendar year 2024 (covered electric generating unit). The rule must require compliance with the emission limits as soon as practicable after December 31, 2030, and must not cover units that have ceased operations, burn natural gas or fuel oil only, or have certain systems installed before December 31, 2029. The owner or operator of a covered electric generating unit is required to provide quarterly emission reports showing compliance with the rule to the division of administration in the department of public health and environment (division). Section 3 requires an investor-owned utility or wholesale electric cooperative that is the owner or operator of a unit, beginning 150 days after the issuance of a federal order requiring the unit to remain operating after the unit was scheduled to retire (order) and continuing every 90 days until the order is no longer in effect, to file a report with the public utilities commission (commission) that contains certain information about the costs to operate the unit and the amount of electricity generated by the unit. The commission must make these reports publicly available. Section 3 also allows an investor-owned utility to submit an application for a financing order to recover the costs of complying with an order. Section 3 also requires that, if the commission issues a written decision approving a portfolio that consists of supply-side resources for an investor-owned utility serving more than 500,000 customers, the commission must approve a total amount of accredited capacity for the investor-owned utility to reliably implement certain retirement dates or operational restrictions applicable to the investor-owned utility's covered electric generating unit and comply with any applicable carbon dioxide emission reduction requirements. This accredited capacity requirement applies to an investor-owned utility serving more than 500,000 customers until the division determines that the investor-owned utility has achieved certain carbon dioxide emission reductions or until the investor-owned utility has retired all covered electric generating units, whichever is later. | NO | The bill responds to federal interventions (e.g., U.S. Department of Energy Section 202(c) emergency orders) that force certain coal-fired power plants to continue operating beyond planned retirement dates. It imposes stricter NOx and SO2 emission limits on qualifying older coal units if they run into the 2030s, requires transparency on costs from federal extensions, and ensures the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) can approve replacement resources for reliability and clean energy compliance. This bill is the legislature’s response and attempt to strike back against the federal government. Except, they forget or don’t care about the people this will hurt (all consumers of electricity) with the huge rate increases THAT WILL OCCUR not to mention the continuing rising utility rates currently being paid. | In Committee | House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/26/2026 | Meg Froelich (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Lori Goldstein (D)*, Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Kenny Nguyen (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Lesley Smith (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Tammy Story (D)*, Brianna Titone (D)*, Alex Valdez (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Steven Woodrow (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1226 | ||
| HB1254 | Audit Enforcement | 03/09/2026 | The bill defines "noncompliant state agency" with respect to the implementation date for an audit recommendation and requires the legislative audit committee (committee) to determine, by majority vote, whether or not a noncompliant state agency has made a good faith effort to comply with an audit recommendation by the implementation date. If the committee determines that the noncompliant state agency has made a good faith effort, the committee may accept an extended implementation date provided by the noncompliant state agency. If the committee determines there has not been a good faith effort, the committee may direct the state auditor to notify the state controller of the noncompliant state agency. The bill also requires the state controller to, upon receipt of notice from the state auditor, restrict, in an amount equal to 3% of the total amount of the noncompliant state agency's general fund appropriations, the noncompliant state agency's appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the state controller receives the notice from the state auditor. This restriction may only be released if the general assembly enacts a bill to do so, or if the committee directs the state auditor to notify the state controller to rescind the restriction. | YES | Bill seeks to “put some teeth” into requests by the overseer Legislature for audits on individual agencies. There are currently several non-compliant agencies, including Medicaid, IT Security, and Corrections. If found to be willfully non-compliant, the bill directs the state controller to withhold 3% of the agency’s funding. Agency heads are employees of the public and ought to be released from service for willful failures to comply. | In Committee | House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Hearing (00:00:00 3/12/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/12/2026 | Max Brooks (R)*, Larry Suckla (R)*, Lisa Frizell (R)*, Jennifer Bacon (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1254 | ||
| HB1266 | Repeal Retail Delivery Fees | 03/09/2026 | A retail delivery is a retail sale of tangible personal property that is subject to state sales tax by a retailer for delivery by a motor vehicle to the purchaser at any location in the state. As authorized by current law, retail delivery fees are imposed on each retail delivery by the: ! State; ! Community access enterprise; ! Clean fleet enterprise; ! Statewide bridge and tunnel enterprise; ! Clean transit enterprise; and ! Nonattainment area air pollution mitigation enterprise. Effective 90 days after the final adjournment of the general assembly in 2026, the bill eliminates the retail delivery fees. | YES | Bill will repeal 2021 statute which imposed a delivery fee (more of those fees again) on items purchased at retail and delivered by motor vehicles. Revenues from such collections have been distributed to 6 state Enterprises, the largest of which is the Highway Users Trust Fund. So, it is fair to ask “Are our highways any better?" The correct answer is “No, our roads are not any better." One step towards making Colorado "more affordable" is to reduce taxes and fees so that Coloradans have more of their money in their pocket. | Dead | House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely | 03/10/2026 | Dan Woog (R)*, Byron Pelton (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1266 | ||
| HB1273 | Transportation Network Company Maximum Percent Fare Retention | 03/09/2026 | The bill prohibits a transportation network company (TNC) from retaining more than 20% of a consumer fare paid for a driver's completion of a transportation task through the TNC's digital platform. "Consumer fare" is defined in the bill as the amount a consumer pays for a transportation task, excluding tips and pass-throughs such as payments for tolls. A TNC is also not allowed to impose a fee on a TNC driver unless the amount of the fee plus the amount that the TNC retains from a consumer fare does not exceed 20% of the consumer fare. | NO | This bill concerns the maximum amount that a transportation network company (Uber, Lyft, taxi, etc.) may retain in relation to the amount paid for transportation services provided through the transportation network company. The CUT board voted unanimously against this bill as it is an unjustified intrusion into private business. And if successful, the TNNs will convert their independent drivers to W-2 employees, which is suspect as the real motivation here. The state should have no interest in how a firm's revenue is determined. The free market can answer that question. | In Committee | House Business Affairs & Labor Hearing (00:00:00 3/11/2026 Room 0112) | 03/11/2026 | Meg Froelich (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1273 | ||
| HB1278 | Local Government Approval of Transmission Infrastructure | 03/02/2026 | The bill requires that an investor-owned electric utility receive a certificate of public convenience and necessity (certificate) from the public utilities commission and obtain all necessary local government land use approvals and permits prior to initiating any condemnation proceedings related to a high-voltage transmission infrastructure project requiring the certificate. The bill does not change existing application and review processes related to the development of transmission projects that have been established by the public utilities commission or a relevant local government. | YES | The bill requires that an investor-owned electric utility receive a certificate of public convenience and necessity (certificate) from the public utilities commission and obtain all necessary local government land use approvals and permits prior to initiating any condemnation proceedings related to a high-voltage transmission infrastructure project requiring the certificate. The bill does not change existing application and review processes related to the development of transmission projects that have been established by the public utilities commission or a relevant local government. This bill re-establishes the role of local governmental authorities in a utility provider’s use of imminent domain. They have been circumventing the authority of local government to protect the rights of their citizens by asserting condemnation powers over the landowners in advance of any local approval. This unlawful landgrab needs to be stopped. | Dead | House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely | 03/05/2026 | Chris Richardson (R)*, Rod Pelton (R)*, Marc Snyder (D)*, Max Brooks (R)*, Jarvis Caldwell (R)*, Lorena García (D)*, Lori Goldstein (D)*, Tony Hartsook (R)*, Dusty Johnson (R)*, Tisha Mauro (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Matt Soper (R)*, Brianna Titone (D)*, Ty Winter (R)*, Dan Woog (R)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Lisa Frizell (R)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1278 | ||
| HB1280 | Sunset Regulation of Hemodialysis Treatment | 03/02/2026 | Sunset Process - House Health and Human Services Committee. The bill implements the recommendation of the Colorado office of policy, research, and regulatory reform in the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report by continuing the regulation of hemodialysis clinics and technicians for 11 years, until September 1, 2037. | NO | The bill implements the recommendation of the Colorado office of policy, research, and regulatory reform in the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report by continuing the regulation of hemodialysis clinics and technicians for 11 years, until September 1, 2037. Most of the Cut board’s opinion was to let the program “sunset." This is mostly due to the fact the program is only a licensing body and collects licensing fees. However, some voiced support for the program as it does provide critical oversight that federal and state regulations are met. | In Committee | House Appropriations Hearing (08:30:00 3/13/2026 Room 0112) | 03/13/2026 | Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Sheila Lieder (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Kyle Mullica (D)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1280 | ||
| HB1289 | Modification of Certain Tax Expenditures | 03/09/2026 | The bill adjusts several state tax expenditures as follows: ! Section 2 of the bill prohibits certain local use tax ordinances, resolutions, or proposals from applying to construction and building materials used by a common rail carrier pursuant to a contract with the state, a political subdivision of the state, or a special district allows the contracting government to use the carrier's property or tracks for the provision of public passenger rail service; ! Section 3, for income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2027, requires a taxpayer to add to the taxpayer's federal taxable income the excess of any gain excluded from federal gross income pursuant to section 1400Z-2 (a)(1)(A) of the internal revenue code over the gain invested by the taxpayer in a Colorado-qualified opportunity fund in a manner that qualifies for exclusion from federal gross income pursuant to the same section of the internal revenue code; ! Section 4, for income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2027, creates an income tax credit for certain individuals who are 65 years old or older in the income tax year, or who are a surviving spouse of that individual, and who were previously eligible to receive a grant for real property tax assistance and heat or fuel expenses assistance; ! Section 5, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, allows a combined group to elect to make a water's-edge filing election and describes what should be taken into account in such a filing; ! Section 6, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, repeals the state corporate income tax deduction for wages or salaries paid that are not allowed to be deducted at the federal level pursuant to section 280C of the internal revenue code; ! Section 6, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, also eliminates the ability of corporations to deduct from their income tax liability any amount included in federal taxable income pursuant to sections 951 (a) or 951A (a) of the internal revenue code with respect to a controlled foreign corporation incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction for the purpose of tax avoidance; ! Sections 7, 12, and 13 eliminate a potential reduction in the amount available for the innovative motor vehicle tax credit, the heat pump technology and thermal energy network tax credit, and the electric bicycle tax credit, respectively, based on an economic forecast by the office of state planning and budgeting or legislative council staff; ! Section 7 also increases the innovative motor vehicle tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 for certain vehicles sold or leased during the 2027 income tax year, and from $500 to $1,000 for certain vehicles sold or leased during the 2028 income tax year. Currently, an additional $2,500 in tax credit is allowed for certain vehicles sold or leased on or after January 1, 2024, but prior to January 1, 2029, that have a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) below $35,000. Section 7 provides that certain vehicles with an MSRP below $40,000 that are sold or leased on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2029, are eligible for the additional tax credit. ! Section 8, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, modifies the income tax credit for wildfire hazard mitigation expenses by adding the thinning of woody vegetation that is at risk of mountain pine beetle or spruce beetle infestation or that has been killed by mountain pine beetles or spruce beetles to the definition of "wildfire mitigation measures", modifying the amount of the credit available, and allowing the credit to be carried forward for 5 years; ! Section 9, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, expands the income tax credit for the purchase of small food business recovery grant program equipment to be available for additional food distributors and producers, adjusts the amount of the tax credit that may be offered and claimed for the purchase of small food business recovery grant program equipment or participation in the supplemental food assistance benefit program, and dictates the order in which the department of agriculture shall award these tax credits; ! Sections 10 and 16 extend the electric powered lawn equipment tax credit until January 1, 2030, and allow a retailer to receive quarterly advance payments of the credit; ! Section 11, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, allows an entity not subject to income tax to be eligible for an income tax credit for developing a qualified industrial facility, allows a taxpayer to claim the credit for installing equipment used for utilization of biomethane, and requires the Colorado energy office (CEO) to review applications for the credit within 120, rather than 90, days; ! Section 11 also creates a new tax credit for geothermal energy projects for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027. The amount of the credit cannot exceed $5 million per taxpayer aggregated across all income tax years for which the credit may be claimed. The total amount of credits cannot exceed $35 million across all income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2033. ! Section 14 repeals the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility tax credit, effective January 1, 2027; ! Section 15 establishes the sustainable aviation fuel purchase income tax credit for income tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, and before December 31, 2032. The amount of the credit is initially $1.50, increased by $.01 for each whole percentage of carbon intensity reduction in excess of 50%, per gallon of SAF purchased in the state by the taxpayer, and the CEO may adjust that amount annually. The total amount of credits issued cannot exceed $3 million per tax year. Taxpayers must apply to the CEO for a tax credit certificate and CEO verifies eligibility and reports approved credits to the department of revenue. The credit is refundable but may not be carried forward. ! Section 17 repeals the precious metal and bullion coins sales and use tax exemption, effective January 1, 2027; ! Section 18, for tax periods commencing on or after July 1, 2027, exempts from tax the storage, use, or consumption of construction and building materials by or on behalf of a common carrier by rail operating in interstate or foreign commerce when the storage, use, or consumption of the construction and building materials is pursuant to a contract with the state, a political subdivision of the state, or a special district that allows the contracting government to use the railroad's property or tracks for public passenger rail service; ! Section 19 reinstates the sales and use tax exemption for wood from salvaged trees killed or infested in Colorado by mountain pine beetles or spruce beetles, which would otherwise expire on June 30, 2026, for a period beginning on July 1, 2027, and ending June 30, 2032; ! Section 20 repeals the sales and use tax exemption for property used in space flight, effective January 1, 2027; ! Sections 21 and 22 change from 2% to 1% the allowance to cover losses in transit and in unloading gasoline or special fuel and repeals the 0.5% allowance for the costs of collecting the gasoline or special fuel excise tax and for uncollectible bad debts for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 23 repeals the 3% deduction for collecting and remitting the tax on the inventory of cigarette wholesalers for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 24 repeals the 0.4% discount on the face value of tax stamps affixed to packages containing cigarettes for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 26 repeals the 1.6% discount for expenses in the collection and remittance of the tax on the sale, use, consumption, handling, and distribution of tobacco for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 27 repeals the 1.1% discount for expenses in the collection and remittance of the nicotine product distributors tax for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 28 allows an income tax credit to a taxpayer who places a new renewable energy investment in service on or after January 1, 2027, and provides a 14-year carryover of any amount of the credit not used to offset the income taxes otherwise due; ! Section 28 also eliminates the enterprise zone commercial vehicle tax credit for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027; ! Section 29 provides that on or after January 1, 2027, a taxpayer with more than 50 employees during an income tax year is ineligible for the new enterprise zone business employee tax credit in that same income tax year; ! Section 30 requires, beginning January 1, 2027, a taxpayer to make at least $150,000 in expenditures in research and experimental activities to be eligible for the enterprise zone research and experimental activities tax credit; ! Section 31 modifies the enterprise zone vacant building rehabilitation income tax credit so that the credit only applies to buildings that have been unoccupied for 183 days preceding when the rehabilitation is placed in service and is available in an amount equal to 25% of the aggregate qualified expenditures per building or $200,000 per building, whichever is less; ! Section 32, beginning January 1, 2027, ends the availability of grants for real property tax assistance and heat or fuel expenses assistance; and ! Sections 33 through 39 make conforming amendments for the changes made in sections 4 and 32. | NO | This is a huge omnibus bill that at present has a total of 39 sections and is 70 pages long! This bill modifies various state tax expenditures, primarily effective for income tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, by adjusting tax credits, deductions, and exemptions. The bill also allows for a "water's-edge" combined filing election for affiliated corporate groups, repeals the state corporate income tax deduction for wages not deductible federally under section 280C of the Internal Revenue Code, and eliminates the deduction for certain income from controlled foreign corporations intended for tax avoidance. Several tax credits, including those for innovative motor vehicles, heat pump technology, and electric bicycles, will no longer be reduced based on economic forecasts, and the innovative motor vehicle credit amounts are increased for certain vehicles. New tax credits are introduced for qualified industrial facilities and geothermal energy projects, with specific limitations and a total cap for geothermal projects. The sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility tax credit is repealed, but a new SAF purchase tax credit is established with a per-gallon credit based on carbon intensity reduction, subject to an annual cap. The sales and use tax exemption for precious metal bullion and coins, and for property used in space flight, are repealed. Allowances for losses in transit and for collecting fuel excise taxes are reduced, and various vendor allowances for collecting cigarette, tobacco, and nicotine product taxes are repealed. A 14-year carryover is added for the renewable energy investment tax credit, while the enterprise zone commercial vehicle tax credit is eliminated. Finally, grants for real property tax and heat/fuel expenses assistance are ended, and conforming amendments are made throughout the statutes. The CUT board is unanimously against this omnibus legislation. It covers many topics, has several tax increases (by denying deductions) and tax credit changes. It requires add-backs (Federal tax relief for workers - overtime and tips). It lacks comprehensive fiscal notes and because the legislation is so enormous and overly complex, can it be regarded as clear and transparent? One member of the board referred to this bill as “An Octopus Bill” - reaching into every pocket of the taxpayer. Also, the board considers the inclusion of the Safety Clause unnecessary and ridiculous. | In Committee | House Finance Hearing (13:30:00 3/16/2026 Room 0112) | 03/16/2026 | Kyle Brown (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1289 | ||
| SB001 | Workforce Housing & Housing Tax Credit | Currently, a board of county commissioners (board) may not appropriate general fund money from ad valorem taxes for multijurisdictional housing authorities or other housing authorities established in statute (housing authorities). The bill allows a board to use revenue generated by ad valorem taxes that is in the county's general fund or in other specified county funds for housing authorities. In addition, the bill allows a board to use county general fund money from ad valorem taxes or money from other county funds for workforce housing. Currently, a middle-income housing tax credit (credit) may be transferred from a governmental entity or quasi-governmental entity to a qualified taxpayer. A qualified taxpayer must own an interest in a qualified project to claim the credit. The bill entitles an individual, person, firm, corporation, or other entity subject to income tax and transferred a credit by a governmental entity or quasi-governmental entity to claim the credit without owning an interest in a qualified project. | NO | This bill takes a county housing subsidy law and broadens its application and funding sources. The bill allows funding to subsidize "workforce housing" (whatever that is) in addition to the previous menu of categories. The bill adds Ad Valorem sources (especially property taxes) to broaden its list of resources. The bill further gives the county power to distribute tax incentives to persons who have no financial interest in the housing. We object to the use of our property taxes to fund property development for others. The resulting development will likely pay no, or reduced property tax, thereby increasing the burden on other taxpayers. The authorization to give away tax incentives provides an opportunity for unethical pay outs. | Crossed Over | Senate Second Reading Calendar (07:30:00 3/11/2026 Senate Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Jeff Bridges (D)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Chris Richardson (R)*, Lisa Cutter (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), William Lindstedt (D), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Kyle Mullica (D), Marc Snyder (D), Tom Sullivan (D), Michael Weissman (D), Jennifer Bacon (D), Kyle Brown (D), Jarvis Caldwell (R), Sean Camacho (D), Chad Clifford (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Ryan Gonzalez (R), Eliza Hamrick (D), Jamie Jackson (D), Junie Joseph (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Javier Mabrey (D), Tisha Mauro (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Gretchen Rydin (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Rebekah Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Brianna Titone (D), Ty Winter (R), Steven Woodrow (D), Yara Zokaie (D) | 5 | 8 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-001 | |||
| SB002 | Energy Affordability | 02/09/2026 | The bill requires an investor-owned electric utility (utility) to submit a proposal to the public utilities commission (PUC) that establishes a first allotment of residential electricity service (FARE service) program. The FARE service program provides a minimum level of electricity at a marginal cost rate for income-qualified utility customers. A FARE service proposal that a utility submits to the PUC must include: ! The amount of electricity that qualifies as a minimum level of electricity for an average income-qualified utility customer based on monthly usage to support a customer's basic needs; ! A marginal cost rate on a per-kilowatt-hour basis for delivering electricity to a customer, which marginal cost rate must be lower than the residential customer rate that the income-qualified utility customer would normally be charged; and ! A description of the process by which an income-qualified utility customer may enroll in the FARE service program. The PUC shall approve a utility's FARE service proposal if the PUC determines that the proposed FARE service would be in the public interest. | NO | This bill orders investor-owned utilities to discriminate in favor of some customers and against others. As utilities will never NOT cover their costs + allowed return - prices will increase for some residential and business customers to make up the rate decrease for the chosen group. The bill forces price discrimination by private companies. Utilities should focus on providing reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power for all. | In Committee | Senate Transportation & Energy Committee Hearing (13:30:00 3/11/2026 SCR 352) | 03/11/2026 | Tony Exum (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-002 | ||
| SB003 | End-of-Life Management of Electric Vehicle Batteries | 02/09/2026 | Senate Bill 25-163 created the "Battery Stewardship Act", which requires the establishment of battery stewardship organizations (organizations) and the submittal of battery stewardship plans (plans) to the executive director of the department of public health and environment (executive director) for the collection, transportation, processing, and recycling of certain batteries. The bill expands the scope of the "Battery Stewardship Act" to cover the end-of-life management of propulsion batteries, which are batteries that are primarily used to supply power to an electric or hybrid vehicle, and establishes requirements concerning propulsion batteries that differ from the requirements for the batteries currently contemplated by the "Battery Stewardship Act". No later than April 1, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, an organization must submit a plan for the collection, transportation, processing, reuse, repurposing, and recycling of propulsion batteries as part of a battery stewardship program. The bill specifies what a plan must contain to be approved by the executive director. On and after August 1, 2028, a provider of propulsion batteries selling, making available for sale, or distributing propulsion batteries or vehicles containing a propulsion battery in or into the state is required to participate in and finance an organization that has submitted a plan. An organization implementing a plan on behalf of providers of propulsion batteries is required to develop a website that includes educational and promotional materials and safety information related to battery storage and collection activities and submit annual reports to the executive director that concern certain information about the preceding year of plan implementation. The bill includes requirements for the marking and labeling of propulsion batteries and requires the solid and hazardous waste commission to, no later than July 1, 2027, adopt rules establishing a process for the department of public health and environment to certify an entity as a qualified propulsion battery recycler. On and after August 1, 2028, all propulsion batteries in the state must be managed in accordance with the requirements established by the bill. | YES | This bill expands the scope of the "Battery Stewardship Act" (SB25-163) to cover the end-of-life management of propulsion batteries, which are batteries that are primarily used to supply power to an electric or hybrid vehicle, and establishes requirements concerning propulsion batteries that differ from the requirements for the batteries currently contemplated by the "Battery Stewardship Act." Due to the hazardous nature of lithium-ion batteries there needs to be a recycling program and, due to government’s incentives to buy EVs, the problem is even greater than it might have been, so CUT votes yes. However, some CUT members are concerned that the fees paid by stewardship organizations seem excessive and it appears that the future costs to the State are not fully identified. Clearly the proponents of EVs have not fully thought through the long-term environmental impact of used EV batteries. | In Committee | Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/25/2026 | Lisa Cutter (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)* | 4 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-003 | ||
| SB004 | Expand List of Petitioners for Protection Order | The bill adds a health-care facility that employs a health-care professional or mental health professional and a co-responder who is part of a co-responder community response to the list of community members who may petition the court for an extreme risk protection order. The bill adds health-care facilities, behavioral health treatment facilities, K-12 schools, and institutions of higher education as institutional petitioners that may petition a court for an extreme risk protection order. | NO | This bill disregards the property rights of an owner of firearms. This bill is an expansion of HB19-1177 which empowers authorities to confiscate firearms with no due process and sometimes with no notification to the accused. | Crossed Over | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Julie Gonzales (D)*, Tom Sullivan (D)*, Meg Froelich (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)*, Judy Amabile (D), Matt Ball (D), James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Jessie Danielson (D), Tony Exum (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Robert Rodriguez (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-004 | |||
| SB005 | Rights Violation in Immigration Enforcement Remedy | 02/02/2026 | The bill creates a statutory cause of action for a person who is injured during a civil immigration enforcement action by another person who, whether or not under color of law, violates the United States constitution while participating in civil immigration enforcement. A person who violates the United States constitution while participating in civil immigration enforcement is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief. The action must be commenced within 2 years after the cause of action accrues. | NO | This bill establishes a new legal pathway in Colorado for individuals who are harmed during civil immigration enforcement actions if their constitutional rights are violated. This is a law designed to punish federal law enforcement and enrich trial lawyers. This will have the effect of incentivizing protesters to physically interfere with enforcement efforts. These law officers will not want to jeopardize their financial situation and so will restrict their efforts or leave the profession. This will have the effect of reducing immigration enforcement, thereby placing the public at greater risk. Government's proper role is protection of rights. This bill threatens our rights of life and property. | In Committee | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 02/24/2026 | Julie Gonzales (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, James Coleman (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Robert Rodriguez (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Judy Amabile (D), Matt Ball (D), Jeff Bridges (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Jessie Danielson (D), Tony Exum (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Marc Snyder (D), Tom Sullivan (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-005 | ||
| SB008 | Mental Health Access | 03/02/2026 | The bill establishes the adult mental health services program (program) to facilitate access for adults to mental health services, including substance use disorder services, and to respond to identified mental health needs. The program reimburses providers for up to 6 mental health sessions with an adult and may provide additional reimbursement, subject to available money. The adult mental health program enterprise (enterprise), created in the bill, creates, operates, and funds the program. The enterprise is required to enter into an agreement with a vendor to create or use an existing website or web-based application as a portal that is available to adults and providers to facilitate the program. The department of human services is required to annually report to the general assembly about the program. The bill establishes the internet-enabled mental health access grant program (grant program) to award grants to entities that use the internet to facilitate mental health services. The enterprise administers the grant program. The enterprise shall annually report to the health and human services committees of the house of representatives and the senate about the grant program. The bill creates the mental health services enterprise as a government-owned business within the behavioral health administration for the business purpose of imposing and collecting a surcharge on internet service account holders in Colorado and to use the surcharge revenue to create, operate, and fund the adult mental health services program and internet-enabled mental health access grant program. Each internet service provider shall collect from its account holders located in Colorado the mental health services access surcharge and remit the surcharge to the enterprise. | NO | Bill seeks to improve access to mental health services for adults in need of counseling. Toward that end, it creates an Enterprise Zone (exempt from TABOR calculations) and levies a fee (also exempt from TABOR) on every internet user in Colorado. While CUT can support increased mental health support, we adamantly oppose yet another end run around voter approval for tax increases. And our appetite for more appointed Boards is low…as in non-existent. | In Committee | Senate Health & Human Services Committee Hearing (13:30:00 3/19/2026 Old Supreme Court) | 03/19/2026 | Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D)*, Lindsay Gilchrist (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-008 | ||
| SB010 | Agricultural Property Tax Definitions | CONCERNING CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE TAXATION OF AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. | YES | This bill appears to benefit small and family agricultural operations which are facing significant economic challenges because of high property taxes and rising production inputs. The bill appears to restrict lower property tax rates to only genuinely agricultural properties. | Passed | Sent to the Governor | 03/02/2026 | Byron Pelton (R)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Julie McCluskie (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Marc Catlin (R)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Matt Soper (R)*, Judy Amabile (D), Mark Baisley (R), Matt Ball (D), Scott Bright (R), John Carson (R), James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Tony Exum (D), Lisa Frizell (R), Julie Gonzales (D), Nick Hinrichsen (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Barbara Kirkmeyer (R), Larry Liston (R), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Rod Pelton (R), Janice Rich (R), Cleave Simpson (R), Marc Snyder (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D), Lynda Zamora Wilson (R), Monica Duran (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Meghan Lukens (D), Bob Marshall (D), Tisha Mauro (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Chris Richardson (R), Manny Rutinel (D), Lesley Smith (D), Katie Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Rick Taggart (R), Brianna Titone (D), Ron Weinberg (R) | 6 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-010 | |||
| SB018 | Legal Protections for Dignity of Minors | The bill requires the court to suppress a record associated with a petition seeking to change the name of a petitioner who is less than 18 years of age unless the petitioner was previously convicted of a felony. The bill authorizes the court to use the suppressed court record for administrative purposes, but the court is prohibited from publishing the petitioner's name or the petitioner's new name online. The bill authorizes an individual to access a suppressed court record without a court order if the individual obtains verbal consent from a party to the case and submits an affidavit to the court, upon penalty of perjury, that the individual has obtained the verbal consent. In determining parenting time and the allocation of decision-making responsibility, the bill requires the court to consider whether the parties recognize the child's identity as it relates to a protected class. | NO | This bill requires the court to suppress a record associated with a petition seeking to change the name of a petitioner who is less than 18 years of age unless the petitioner was previously convicted of a felony. Additionally, the bill requires a court to consider whether a parent recognizes a child’s new identity as it relates to determination of allocation of parental responsibilities, determination of parenting time, and allocation of decision-making responsibility. This bill strips parents of their parental rights! It allows courts to replace parents in cases of gender identity and gender confusion in a minor, which confusion may have been fostered by the school or persons outside the home. And it strips parents of a role with a minor child in cases of divorce if a parent doesn’t agree with a name change. The Safety Clause is a further slap in the face of citizens as it says they cannot have a say on this critical issue. | Crossed Over | Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary | 02/25/2026 | Chris Kolker (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Meg Froelich (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Michael Weissman (D) | 3 | 7 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-018 | |||
| SB020 | Child Care Provider Licensing & Quality | 02/02/2026 | The bill requires the department of early childhood (department) to make reasonable efforts to expand and standardize the use of a digital data platform as a centralized digital file system for certain child care provider information (digital provider file system). The digital provider file system must integrate the professional development information system currently administered by the department and must house records related to staff background checks and child care provider policy documents, consistent with applicable privacy protections. Current law permits the department to authorize or contract with a third party to investigate and inspect a facility applying for certain types of child care licenses. The bill requires the department, on or before July 1, 2026, to begin phasing out its reliance on third parties where feasible and to prioritize the use of department personnel to conduct the investigations and inspections instead. The department shall establish standardized training, protocols, and supervision for department personnel and authorized or contracted third parties. The bill permits the department to grant a provisional license for up to 9 months to a child care facility that has satisfied all state-level licensing standards pending resolution of a delay or dispute with a statutory or home rule city, town, city and county, or county where the facility is situated (local governing authority) that prevents compliance with applicable zoning and land use development regulations. A local governing authority that imposes requirements related to the inspection, permitting, licensing, or approval of a child care center or family child care home beyond the state-level licensing standards (local approval process) shall prioritize provisionally licensed child care facilities so that the local approval process concludes within 9 months, and limit, or, in certain cases, provide exemptions from, associated fees. The bill creates the child care licensure and quality task force (task force) to study and report on recommendations for a streamlined and easy-to-use child care licensure and quality system in the state (study). The task force shall report on its findings and recommendations before January 1, 2027, to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate, the governor, and the department. The performance of the study is dependent upon the task force's receipt of sufficient gifts, grants, and donations. | NO | This bill makes changes to licensing and regulation of childcare providers, including requiring use of a centralized digital file system; phasing out the use of contract staff for inspections and licensing; creating a task force to streamline childcare licensing; and limiting certain fees that a local government can charge for childcare licensing. This bill increases headcount by 22 and costs almost $10M in the first year – at a time when we are already in budget stress. There is no clear reason why the State needs to build this bureaucracy and take responsibility away from local governments in oversight of day care providers. AND – there is no clear emergency that warrants a Safety Clause. | In Committee | Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/25/2026 | Matt Ball (D)*, Scott Bright (R)*, Emily Sirota (D)* | 1 | 7 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-020 | ||
| SB021 | Clean Fleet Enterprise Replace Aging Diesel Trucks | Transportation Legislation Review Committee. Currently, the clean fleet enterprise (enterprise) may provide money to help public and private owners and operators of motor vehicle fleets finance acquisitions of compressed natural gas motor vehicles that are trucks if at least 90% of the fuel for the trucks will be recovered methane. Pursuant to current law, starting on January 1, 2027, the enterprise may only provide money for this purpose so long as the enterprise determines that electric motor vehicles are not yet practically available or do not meet the operational requirements such as cargo carrying capacity and driving range for specific categories of trucks (funding limitation). The bill repeals the funding limitation. The bill authorizes the enterprise to incentivize, support, and accelerate the replacement of a motor vehicle that uses compression ignition to start the engine, has a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 26,000 pounds, is based in the state, and is part of a fleet with in-state annual miles driven of at least 75% of the fleet's total annual miles driven (heavy-duty truck), that is powered by a diesel-fueled internal combustion engine and is a model year of 2009 or earlier (aging heavy-duty diesel truck) with a heavy-duty truck that is a model year of or later (new heavy-duty truck) until December 31, 2031. The bill also allows the enterprise to provide funding or financing through grant programs, rebate programs, revolving loan funds, or other strategies to help owners and operators of aging heavy-duty diesel truck fleets finance the replacement of aging heavy-duty diesel trucks with new heavy-duty trucks to reduce the up-front costs of acquiring new heavy-duty trucks until December 31, 2031. To qualify for any money provided by the enterprise for the replacement of aging heavy-duty diesel trucks with new heavy-duty trucks: ! The purchaser of the new heavy-duty truck must surrender an aging heavy-duty diesel truck to the seller of the new heavy-duty truck at the time of the transaction; ! The seller of the new heavy-duty truck must decommission the aging heavy-duty diesel truck by drilling a hole in the engine's block and cutting the chassis rails in half; and ! The seller must be an authorized dealer of new heavy-duty trucks who must certify that the new heavy-duty truck meets all state and federal emissions and safety standards for its model year. The enterprise may use the clean fleet enterprise fund (fund) to provide money to support the replacement of aging heavy-duty diesel trucks with new heavy-duty trucks, but the enterprise is required to ensure that it does not expend more than 20% of the fund's income during a state fiscal year for the support. The enterprise may encourage the department of public health and environment to explore whether decommissioning aging heavy-duty diesel trucks and replacing them with new heavy-duty trucks qualifies as a transportation control measure that offsets growth in emissions from growth in vehicle miles traveled or number of vehicle trips taken pursuant to the federal "Clean Air Act". 1 | Monitor | This bill authorizes the Clean Fleet Enterprise to encourage the replacement of high-emitting trucks with low-emitting trucks in motor vehicle fleets and then destroying the vehicles that are undesirable to the government. This new version of the failed “Cash for Clunkers” is lacks common sense. This bill interferes with free market choices and will result with increasing the cost of goods and services by forcing individuals and businesses to buy a vehicle they wouldn’t otherwise buy. It is not the role of government to dictate our purchases! | Crossed Over | House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Hearing (13:30:00 3/25/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/25/2026 | Kyle Mullica (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Carlos Barron (R)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Jamie Jackson (D)*, Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Adrienne Benavidez (D), Marc Catlin (R), James Coleman (D), Lindsey Daugherty (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), William Lindstedt (D), Janice Marchman (D), Dylan Roberts (D), Marc Snyder (D), Katie Wallace (D) | 3 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-021 | |||
| SB028 | Removal of Wind Energy from State Energy Goals | The bill removes wind energy as an eligible renewable energy resource under Colorado's renewable energy standard and removes wind energy generation from consideration for the state's clean energy targets. | YES | This bill removes wind energy as an eligible renewable energy resource under Colorado's renewable energy standard and removes wind energy generation from consideration for the state's clean energy targets. Wind has not proven to be a reliable energy source for Colorado and carries added concerns regarding bird safety and disposal of used, non-recyclable machinery. Let’s concentrate on more efficient, affordable, abundant, reliable energy sources. | Dead | Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely | 02/18/2026 | Rod Pelton (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-028 | |||
| SB032 | Promoting Immunization Access | 02/02/2026 | The bill amends existing law and adds new provisions relating to access to vaccines as follows: ! Updates insurance coverage for cervical cancer vaccinations to refer to the vaccine as the human papillomavirus vaccine, rather than the cervical cancer vaccine; recognizes coverage for both women and men; and authorizes the commissioner of insurance to adopt coverage rules for the vaccine if the advisory committee on immunization practices to the centers for disease control in the federal department of health and human services (ACIP) no longer recommends the vaccine (section 3 of the bill); ! In naturopathic medicine practice, references a schedule of immunizations and guidelines established by the state board of health (board of health) in addition to ACIP's schedule of immunizations and guidelines referenced in existing law (sections 4 and 5); ! Authorizes pharmacists to exercise independent prescriptive authority for vaccines and requires the state board of pharmacy to adopt rules establishing and amending, as necessary, requirements for independent prescriptive authority for vaccines (sections 6 and 7); ! In the context of vaccines required for school entry, updates vaccine-related liability limitation provisions to limit liability for injuries if the vaccine was administered according to the board of health schedule of immunizations or to ACIP's schedule referenced in existing law (section 8); ! Directs the board of health, in adopting rules addressing which vaccines are to be administered to infants, to consider the recommendations of ACIP, as well as the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other similar entities (section 9); ! Removes a prohibition on the use of state money for infant immunization programs if the state does not receive federal money for the immunization programs (section 10); ! Adds pharmacies and manufacturers to liability limitation provisions for hospitals, clinics, and other providers relating to the handling, storage, and distribution of vaccines for infants. Manufacturer liability limitation provisions are removed from the law for claims brought on or after January 31, 2029 (section 11). ! Authorizes the department of public health and environment to consider recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other similar entities, in addition to ACIP, in recommending the purchase of vaccines, sending notifications concerning overdue vaccines and vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, and when considering equivalent vaccines (section 12); ! Updates language in the cervical cancer immunization program to define the cervical cancer vaccine as the human papillomavirus vaccine and to refer to underinsured minors, rather than just uninsured female minors, since both male and female minors receive the vaccine (sections 13 and 14); ! Adds a new limitation on liability for civil damages for injury or death of an adult caused by a vaccine or immunizing agent if the vaccine or immunizing agent was administered according to the schedule of immunizations establish by the board of health, there were no medical contraindications, and the vaccine or immunizing agent was administered in accordance with generally accepted clinical methods. For claims brought on or before January 30, 2029, against a hospital, clinic, pharmacy, manufacturer, or provider arising from injuries resulting from the handling, storage, or distribution of vaccines, there is no liability unless the injuries are the result of the negligent failure of an employee of the hospital, clinic, pharmacy, or manufacturer to conform to recognized standards to protect public health. Manufacturer liability protections are removed from the law for claims brought on or after January 31, 2029 (section 15). ! Authorizes the department of health care policy and financing to purchase for the children's basic health plan vaccines that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other similar entities, in addition to those recommended by ACIP (section 16). | NO | It appears this bill is designed to circumvent new federal guidelines for vaccinations. The American Academy of Pediatrics is currently in direct confrontation with the new guidelines by Health and Human Services. Children and parents are in the middle of this controversy. Ultimately, it is the right of parents to dictate if and when they want their children to be immunized. Very inappropriate use of the Safety Clause preventing this legislation referred to the people for a vote. | Crossed Over | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/11/2026 House Floor) | 03/11/2026 | Lindsey Daugherty (D)*, Kyle Mullica (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Lisa Feret (D)*, Judy Amabile (D), Matt Ball (D), James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Tony Exum (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Marc Snyder (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D) | 3 | 9 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-032 | ||
| SB040 | Affordable Home Ownership Program | The division of housing in the department of local affairs (division) administers an affordable home ownership program (program) that makes grants to nonprofit organizations, local governments, tribal governments, community development financial institutions, and community land trusts (eligible organizations) to support affordable home ownership, including the development of residential housing units that are described in an eligible organization's funding request (project). Current law specifies that only a household with an income less than or equal to 120% of the area median income is eligible for assistance through the program, but it is unclear whether this requirement applies to housing units constructed by an eligible organization through one of its projects. The bill clarifies that only a household with an income less than or equal to 120% of the statewide area median income is eligible for housing constructed by an eligible organization through one of its projects. In addition, the program requires that housing offered through the program, including all taxes and fees, costs not more than 35% of a household's monthly income. The bill allows the division to modify this percentage as applied to a residential unit constructed by an eligible organization as part of an affordable housing project pursuant to a waiver process initiated by an eligible organization if a substantial need for housing the project's target population exists, the unit has been adequately marketed to eligible buyers for purchase for at least 6 months after the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, and the unit has not been purchased by an eligible buyer within that 6-month period. In lieu of this process, the division may approve an eligible organization's process for determining when to exceed the maximum monthly household income for a unit funded by the program. The division may issue a waiver with a different housing cost limit from the limit requested by the eligible organization if a different limit would better serve needs identified in a housing assessment and the project remains financially feasible in the division's discretion. For an eligible organization, the bill specifies that the division is required to accept a local affordability mechanism in lieu of any state-prescribed use covenant if the division determines that the local affordability mechanism allows the state to maintain its obligations for compliance and compliance monitoring and is substantially equivalent to or more protective of long-term affordability and primary occupancy than a state-prescribed use covenant or the local affordability mechanism is necessary to access financing for disproportionately impacted communities. The division may allow an eligible organization to rent residential units constructed as part of the project. On or before December 31, 2026, the division is required to issue guidance for when units within a project may be rented. | NO | The unjustifiable use of the Safety Clause in this bill is insulting to the people of Colorado. Moreover, this expansion of an existing subsidy program would subsidize those making up to 120% of median income. It is not the proper role of government to take from one to give to another. It also penalizes those making 121% and above of median income. The fair and equitable way to make houses more affordable is to reduce, rules, regulations, fees, and taxes across the board. | In Committee | Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/12/2026 - No Amendments | 03/11/2026 | Judy Amabile (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Katie Stewart (D)* | 1 | 6 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-040 | |||
| SB042 | Revenue Classification Taxpayers Bill of Rights | 02/09/2026 | Section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR) defines "fiscal year spending" as excluding "collections for another government" and "damage awards". Although TABOR does not define either "collections for another government" or "damage awards", the TABOR implementing statutes define both terms. The bill clarifies both of these definitions for state fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2025. The bill clarifies that "collections for another government", as used for the purpose of determining whether specific money received by the state is subject to the TABOR limitation on state fiscal year spending, includes revenue from the excise tax on gasoline used as fuel for the propulsion of specified aircraft collected by the state and distributed to governmental or airport entities operating an FAA-designated public use airport. The bill also clarifies that "damage award", as used for the purpose of determining whether specific money received by the state is subject to the TABOR limitation on state fiscal year spending, includes certain civil fines and penalties imposed by the state. | NO | This bill “clarifies” that two types of income (revenue from the excise tax on gasoline used as fuel for the propulsion of specified aircraft and certain civil fines and penalties imposed by the state) should not be considered in the calculation of the TABOR limitation on state fiscal year spending. This bill directly affects TABOR refunds by narrowing what counts as revenue subject to the constitutional spending limit – it is just another attempt to retain funds that otherwise should be refunded to taxpayers under TABOR. The addition of the Safety Clause is just another insult as the only “danger” is that the State government might not be able to keep more of taxpayers’ money! | In Committee | Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/10/2026 | Judy Amabile (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Emily Sirota (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)* | 1 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-042 | ||
| SB043 | Record Keeping & Regulation of Sale of Firearm Barrel | The bill requires a firearm barrel to be sold or transferred in person by a federally licensed firearm dealer. A person who is not a federally licensed firearm dealer shall not possess a firearm barrel with the intent to sell or transfer, or with the intent to offer to sell or transfer, the firearm barrel. Unlawful sale of a firearm barrel and unlawful possession with intent to sell a firearm barrel are each an unclassified misdemeanor. A person must be 18 years old or older and legally allowed to purchase a firearm under state and federal law to purchase a firearm barrel, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires a federally licensed firearm dealer to record a sale or transfer of a firearm barrel for at least 5 years. The bill requires the Colorado bureau of investigation to create a form for federally licensed firearm dealers to record a sale or transfer of a firearm barrel. | NO | This bill establishes requirements for the sale, transfer, and recording of firearm barrels that are not permanently attached to a firearm, including requiring that firearm barrels must be sold or transferred in-person by a federally licensed firearm dealer. Violations are an unclassified misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500 and up to 30 days imprisonment in county jail; second or subsequent violations are punishable as a class 2 misdemeanor. This new 'crime' is unenforceable, and a clear violation of at least the spirit, if not the intent, of the Second Amendment. And the Safety Clause is an attempt to prevent citizens from protecting their Constitutional right to bear arms. | Crossed Over | House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Hearing (13:30:00 3/16/2026 Room Old State Library) | 03/16/2026 | Tom Sullivan (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Meg Froelich (D)*, James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Jessie Danielson (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-043 | |||
| SB045 | Nuclear Workforce Development & Education Program | 02/09/2026 | The bill creates the Colorado nuclear workforce development and education council (council) in the Colorado school of mines to help meet growing workforce demand in the nuclear energy sector. The bill establishes a related grant program (grant program) to provide grants to institutions of higher education for the development or expansion of nuclear engineering degree or certificate programs or course offerings. The council shall convene advisory sessions with stakeholders from the nuclear, educational, and workforce development sectors; implement the grant program; and contract with one or more third-party entities for staffing and operational assistance. The council may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, and donations for council-related purposes. The state treasurer shall credit the gifts, grants, and donations to the Colorado nuclear workforce development and education cash fund (cash fund), which is created in the bill. The general assembly shall not appropriate general fund money to implement or maintain council operations or grant awards. The council shall convene and begin awarding grants only after the balance of the cash fund reaches or exceeds $500,000. The bill imposes requirements to report to the general assembly about the council's funding sources, grant program implementation, and other uses of the grant program money. The bill repeals the council, effective September 1, 2033, unless the council is extended following a sunset review. | YES | This bill creates the Colorado Nuclear Workforce Development and Education Program in the Colorado School of Mines to provide grants to institutions of higher education to develop or expand nuclear engineering degree programs. While CUT is usually wary of any bill initially funded by “gifts, grants and donations," the importance of jump-starting development of a nuclear energy work force warrants seeing if businesses already engaged in nuclear energy will fund this nascent program.------------------------- | In Committee | Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/09/2026 | Larry Liston (R)*, Kyle Mullica (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Ty Winter (R)*, Mark Baisley (R)*, Scott Bright (R)*, John Carson (R)*, Marc Catlin (R)*, Lisa Frizell (R)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Byron Pelton (R)*, Rod Pelton (R)*, Janice Rich (R)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Marc Snyder (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-045 | ||
| SB046 | Property Tax Administrative Procedures | 03/09/2026 | The bill makes multiple changes to procedural requirements for the administration of property tax in 2 broad categories: Deadlines and requirements for transmitting information. Modifications to deadlines. The bill modifies property tax-related deadlines as follows: ! Aligns the regular and late application dates for the qualified-senior primary residence real property classification and the property tax exemption for qualifying veterans with disabilities and their spouses with those for the property tax exemption for qualifying seniors and their spouses. The regular application deadline is July 15 and late applications may be accepted until August 15 (sections 1, 5, and 6 of the bill). ! Increases from $10,000 to $20,000 the current threshold for a board of county commissioners (board) to recommend, or a county assessor with the approval of a board to settle, an abatement or refund of taxes. The threshold for the board being required to submit recommended abatement applications to the property tax administrator (administrator) for review is similarly increased from $10,000 to $20,000. The board is not required to submit an application to the administrator in the case of an abatement or refund caused by a valuation change made to ensure matching values within the same reassessment cycle (section 3). ! Changes the real property protest deadline from June 8 to June 1 (sections 7 and 8); ! Changes the deadline for a county assessor to send a notice of valuation of personal property from June 15 to July 15 and changes the personal property protest deadline from June 30 to July 31 for a county that uses alternate protest and appeal procedures (alternate procedures) to determine objections and protests for taxable property (sections 7 and 8); ! Clarifies that a county's use of alternate procedures may apply to real or personal property, or both (section 9); and ! Aligns the protest deadline for personal property with the date that county assessors must conclude their hearings on such protests so that both the protest and hearing conclusion dates for personal property are June 30, or, for a county that uses alternate procedures, July 31 (section 8). Modifications to requirements for transmitting information. The bill modifies requirements for transmitting property tax information as follows: ! Clarifies that a county assessor or the board may transmit a required abstract of assessment, certification of taxes levied, or application for a recommended abatement or refund in excess of $20,000 to the administrator in a paper or electronic format (sections 2, 3, 4, 10 and 11); ! Reduces the number of copies of an application for a recommended abatement or refund in excess of $20,000 that the board must send to the administrator for review to one (section 3); ! Reduces the number of copies of a notice of determination that an assessor must send to a taxpayer who has objected to the valuation of the taxpayer's property to one (section 8); and ! Reduces the number of copies of an abstract of assessment that need to be prepared to one (sections 4, 10, and 11). | YES | This bill concerns procedural requirements for the administration of property tax, and, in connection therewith, modifying deadlines and certain requirements for transmitting information related to taxable property. The CUT board was split and yet slightly favored a yes vote. The bill seems to favor the taxpayer as it increases the threshold authorized for agencies to settle assessment disputes, extends some dates for taxpayers by increasing monetary thresholds from 10K to 20K and has bi-partisan support. | Crossed Over | House Second Reading Calendar (00:00:00 3/12/2026 House Floor) | 03/12/2026 | Matt Ball (D)*, Lisa Frizell (R)*, Chris Richardson (R)*, Yara Zokaie (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D), John Carson (R), Marc Catlin (R), James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Tony Exum (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Barbara Kirkmeyer (R), Janice Marchman (D), Kyle Mullica (D), Dylan Roberts (D), Marc Snyder (D) | 3 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-046 | ||
| SB047 | Colorado Firefighter Safety Act Petition Elections | Current law allows voters to circulate a petition for a ballot question requiring a local government to engage in collective bargaining with the fire department for the local government and extend coverage of the "Colorado Firefighter Safety Act" to firefighters employed by the local government (question). The question may be added to the ballot for any general election, defined as a general municipal election, regular special district board election, statewide primary election, or statewide general election. The bill changes the definition of a general election for the purpose of determining when a question may be added to the ballot to include a statewide general election in an odd-numbered year only if it qualifies as a coordinated election, as defined in the "Uniform Election Code of 1992". | DNR | This bill allows a ballot question deciding the collective bargaining rights of firefighters to be held at any coordinated general election, including a general municipal election, regular special district board election, statewide primary election, or statewide general election. As this does not directly pertain to the CUT Pledge, the Board decided not to take a position on this bill. However, individuals expressed worries that a vote for unionization could impact taxpayers and the vote participation would be significantly lower in a small district election rather than at the time of a statewide general election. | In Committee | Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 03/11/2026 | Jessie Danielson (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Jacqueline Phillips (D)*, Monica Duran (D)*, Judy Amabile (D), Matt Ball (D), James Coleman (D), Lisa Cutter (D), Lindsey Daugherty (D), Tony Exum (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Kyle Mullica (D), Dylan Roberts (D), Marc Snyder (D), Tom Sullivan (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D) | 3 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-047 | |||
| SB052 | Coal Transition Community Investment | 02/02/2026 | CONCERNING COAL TRANSITION COMMUNITIES, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, PROVIDING A HIRING PREFERENCE FOR COAL TRANSITION WORKERS IN COAL TRANSITION COMMUNITIES AND EXPANDING THE ALLOWABLE WAYS IN WHICH A PUBLIC ENTITY MAY DEPOSIT OR INVEST JUST TRANSITION MONEY. | NO | The state of Colorado is focused on shutting down reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power sources from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal. The consequences for Coloradans are the loss of good paying jobs and affordable electricity. Instead of transitioning from clean burning coal, the legislature should support this industry. Assuaging legislator's guilt of the loss of jobs, because of legislator's actions, by creating a new government program is not the answer. | Passed | Sent to the Governor | 03/02/2026 | Marc Catlin (R)*, Dylan Roberts (D)*, Meghan Lukens (D)*, Tisha Mauro (D)*, Judy Amabile (D), Matt Ball (D), Jeff Bridges (D), James Coleman (D), Tony Exum (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Nick Hinrichsen (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Barbara Kirkmeyer (R), William Lindstedt (D), Larry Liston (R), Janice Marchman (D), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Kyle Mullica (D), Rod Pelton (R), Cleave Simpson (R), Marc Snyder (D), Tom Sullivan (D), Katie Wallace (D), Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Kyle Brown (D), Chad Clifford (D), Monica Duran (D), Meg Froelich (D), Lorena García (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Matt Martinez (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Karen McCormick (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Amy Paschal (D), Naquetta Ricks (D), Manny Rutinel (D), Emily Sirota (D), Lesley Smith (D), Katie Stewart (D), Tammy Story (D), Brianna Titone (D), Steven Woodrow (D) | 6 | 6 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-052 | ||
| SB053 | Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Mortgage POST Officers First Responders | 02/09/2026 | The bill expands eligibility for mortgage loans through the Colorado housing and finance authority to law enforcement officers and first responders, irrespective of income. | NO | This bill expands eligibility for mortgage loans offered by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority to include families of law enforcement officers and first responders, regardless of their income level. Although CUT appreciates the idea of supporting first responders, this bill favors some over others and violates the principle of equal protection under the law. | Crossed Over | House Transportation, Housing & Local Government Hearing (00:00:00 3/24/2026 Room LSB-A) | 03/24/2026 | Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Kyle Mullica (D)*, Chad Clifford (D)*, Ryan Gonzalez (R)*, John Carson (R), James Coleman (D), Lindsey Daugherty (D), Lisa Frizell (R), Cathy Kipp (D), William Lindstedt (D), Larry Liston (R), Byron Pelton (R), Dylan Roberts (D), Marc Snyder (D) | 3 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-053 | ||
| SB056 | State Overtime Compensation Income Tax | The bill modifies the requirement that a taxpayer add the amount of any overtime compensation excluded or deducted from the taxpayer's federal gross income back to the taxpayer's federal taxable income for purposes of calculating state income tax liability to apply only in the 2026 income tax year. | YES | This bill modifies the requirement that a taxpayer add the amount of any overtime compensation excluded or deducted from the taxpayer's federal gross income back to the taxpayer's federal taxable income for purposes of calculating state income tax liability to apply only in the 2026 income tax year. Last year, HB25-1296 disallowed the federal tax deduction of overtime time pay in the calculation of Colorado State tax. This bill allows this tax deduction and aligns state tax deductions with federal tax deductions AFTER 2026. This is a step in the right direction although CUT wishes that 2026 had been included. | In Committee | Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations | 02/26/2026 | Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)*, Jarvis Caldwell (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-056 | |||
| SB058 | Modifications to Voter Registration | The bill modifies the automatic voter registration process by replacing the default registration or preregistration of a person who applies for a driver's license or identification card as an unaffiliated voter with a pending registration or preregistration status (pending status). Only a person who has affirmatively chosen to be an unaffiliated voter is registered or preregistered as such. The pending status applies to a potential voter whose intent to register or preregister or whose party affiliation is unknown or pending due to a need for further information or a failure to respond. A pending voter registration or preregistration record created through existing processes may be finalized if the person affirms their intent to register or preregister, provides their desired party affiliation or identification as unaffiliated, and self-affirms their qualifications in the form required for all registrations to be complete. If a notice seeking such information is returned as undeliverable within 20 days, the pending registration or preregistration is canceled. After 20 days, an undeliverable pending registration or preregistration is marked "inactive". If a notice is not returned at all, or a person's response is incomplete, their pending registration or preregistration is marked "inactive". If a person subsequently votes in an election, their "inactive" pending registration or preregistration becomes an active voter registration record. A county clerk and recorder may, in their discretion, provide notice of an "inactive" pending registration or preregistration record and further attempt to finalize the pending registration or preregistration. The bill also adds a requirement for county clerk and recorders to mark a voter's registration as "inactive" if they fail to vote in consecutive general elections held in even-numbered years. | YES | The bill modifies the automatic voter registration process and marks any voter who has not voted in the last two General Elections as inactive. This is an important improvement that is needed to keep accurate voter rolls. This will save money in ballot generation and mailing. Plus, it will reduce opportunities for others to vote an unclaimed ballot. Another feature of the bill is a requirement for the voter to decide their affiliation. This is common sense. The choice of party or unaffiliated status should be the voter's choice rather than the government's. | Dead | Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 02/24/2026 | Lynda Zamora Wilson (R)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-058 | |||
| SB062 | Rodenticide Use Restrictions | The bill prohibits a person from selling, distributing, applying, or using certain types of rodenticide and rodent glue traps in the state except as authorized for restricted and limited use in a public health emergency and in accordance with certain use requirements and time periods. A person conducting professional rodent control services in the state is required to prioritize integrated pest management strategies, which involve implementing a combination of nonchemical rodent control measures. | NO | This bill prohibits a person from selling, distributing, applying, or using certain types of rodenticide and rodent glue traps in the state except as authorized for restricted and limited use in a public health emergency and in accordance with certain use requirements and time periods. It is not the role of government to interfere with the small businesses doing pest control. Why is the legislature concerned with loving rats instead of getting rid of them? | In Committee | Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing (08:30:00 3/13/2026 LSB-B) | 03/13/2026 | Lisa Cutter (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)* | 1 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-062 | |||
| SB064 | Modify Colorado Agricultural Future Loan Program | The bill modifies the Colorado agricultural future loan program (program) to permit certain eligible entities to receive funding from the program. An eligible entity is defined as an entity that is certified by the division of conservation or an entity that: ! Is a district that has authority to conduct water activities, an irrigation district, or a ditch and reservoir company; and ! Has a letter of support from an entity certified by the division of conservation. The bill directs the commissioner of agriculture to adopt rules that prioritize the provision of loans to eligible entities that apply for loans in order to acquire and conserve agriculturally productive land and to transfer ownership of that land to an eligible farmer or rancher who qualifies for a loan from the program. | DNR | This bill expands eligibility for loans from the Colorado Agricultural Future Loan Program in the Colorado Department of Agriculture to include entities certified by the Division of Conservation in the Department of Regulatory Agencies; water conservancy, water conservation, and water and sanitation districts; irrigation districts; and ditch and reservoir companies. Although many Board members felt that this might be helpful to the much- ignored rural sector of our state, this bill does not fall within CUT’s charter as it doesn’t have a direct impact on taxpayers. | Crossed Over | House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments | 03/11/2026 | Dylan Roberts (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Matt Soper (R)*, Judy Amabile (D), Jeff Bridges (D), James Coleman (D), Tony Exum (D), Julie Gonzales (D), Nick Hinrichsen (D), Iman Jodeh (D), Cathy Kipp (D), Chris Kolker (D), William Lindstedt (D), Larry Liston (R), Janice Marchman (D), Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D), Rod Pelton (R), Robert Rodriguez (D), Marc Snyder (D), Katie Wallace (D), Michael Weissman (D), Jennifer Bacon (D), Andrew Boesenecker (D), Monica Duran (D), Regina English (D), Cecelia Espenoza (D), Lori Goldstein (D), Ryan Gonzalez (R), Eliza Hamrick (D), Junie Joseph (D), Sheila Lieder (D), Mandy Lindsay (D), Meghan Lukens (D), Bob Marshall (D), Matt Martinez (D), Tisha Mauro (D), Julie McCluskie (D), Kenny Nguyen (D), Chris Richardson (R), Manny Rutinel (D), Scott Slaugh (R), Lesley Smith (D), Katie Stewart (D), Rick Taggart (R), Brianna Titone (D) | 5 | 4 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-064 | |||
| SB065 | Systemic Insecticide Use Limitations | On and after January 1, 2029, the bill prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or otherwise distributing in the state field crop seeds coated or treated with systemic insecticide (coated or treated seeds), which is an insecticide designed to be absorbed by plants, unless the buyer presents at the point of sale a certificate authorizing the purchase of such seeds from a seed dealer and the use of such seeds on agricultural property. A person may apply to the commissioner of agriculture (commissioner) for approval to serve as a third-party verifier (approved third-party verifier) to determine whether a specified use of coated or treated seeds is necessary and appropriate. On and after January 1, 2029, a person that seeks to apply such coated or treated seeds on agricultural property must work with an approved third-party verifier to determine if such use is necessary and appropriate. The approved third-party verifier shall conduct a pest risk assessment and prepare a report on the assessment. If the approved third-party verifier determines that the use of coated or treated seeds is necessary and appropriate on the agricultural property, they may issue a certificate authorizing the use of coated or treated seeds on the agricultural property for a period up to one year. The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement a program ensuring that coated or treated seeds are used on agricultural property only when needed and expected to be effective and may enforce against an approved third-party verifier's or seed dealer's noncompliance with the requirements of the bill, including by suspending or revoking approval of the third-party verifier or the seed dealer's license or by assessing a fine in an amount not to exceed $50,000 per violation. Approved third-party verifiers and seed dealers must annually report to the commissioner, and the commissioner must include a summary of the reports and the implementation of the bill in the commissioner's annual "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" presentation to the general assembly. | NO | This bill, titled the "Strengthening Economic and Environmental Decisions (SEED) Act," establishes new regulations for the sale and use of field crop seeds treated with systemic insecticides, which are chemicals designed to be absorbed by plants. Starting January 1, 2029, these treated seeds cannot be sold or distributed unless the buyer presents a certificate authorizing their purchase and use on agricultural property. More fees, more regulations. Potentially higher food cost to consumers due to lower yield and more regulations. Potentially lower profitability to farmers. Individual farmers own the land and are responsible for a crop's success or failure. Would farmers pay for treated seed if it weren't needed? Use of the Safety Clause is completely inappropriate for a bill that wouldn’t take effect until 2029. | Dead | Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely | 02/26/2026 | Cathy Kipp (D)*, Katie Wallace (D)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)* | 1 | 3 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-065 | |||
| SB080 | Cradle to Career Grant Program Creation | The bill creates the cradle to career grant program (grant program) in the state department of human services (state department) to provide grants that promote coordinated community-based supports and services that open opportunities for economic mobility from poverty. The grant program must connect children and youth with high-quality educational and extracurricular programming and families with key health and social services in order to improve prenatal and early childhood outcomes, student achievement, and workforce readiness. A local government, local education provider, state institution of higher education, Indian tribe or tribal organization, or community-based nonprofit or not-for-profit organization (eligible entity) is eligible for a grant award. The bill creates an advisory board to approve the state department's potential grant recipients and to collaborate with the state department to develop grant program guidelines and criteria for awarding grants. To receive a grant, an eligible entity must submit an application that includes an economic mobility needs assessment and a comprehensive proposal to address the needs within its designated service area. The application must identify community partners as prospective subcontractors. Each grant recipient must annually report to the state department on a set of performance indicators assessing the economic mobility outcomes and impacts associated with the grant award. The state department must make a related report to the general assembly each year. The state department may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, and donations for grant-program-related purposes. The state department is not required to implement the grant program until sufficient money is available to adequately fund grant program operations. The general assembly shall not appropriate general fund dollars for grant program operations in its first year. General fund appropriations for grant program operations in subsequent years are limited to 50% of the gifts, grants, and donations that the program received in the prior calendar year. | NO | This bill establishes the "Cradle to Career Grant Program" within the state department of human services to provide grants to eligible entities, such as local governments, educational providers, higher education institutions, tribal organizations, and non-profits, to fund coordinated community-based programs aimed at improving economic mobility for individuals experiencing poverty. The program seeks to connect children and youth with quality educational and extracurricular activities, and families with essential health and social services, with the ultimate goals of enhancing prenatal and early childhood outcomes, boosting student achievement, and preparing individuals for the workforce. This might be better called a 'Cradle to Grave' cornucopia of grants without any means of measuring success. Looks like a way to give away money to favored organizations, but without clearly defined and measurable objectives. Programs like this have been used in the USSR. They lead to the government selecting your status. | In Committee | Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Appropriations | 02/26/2026 | James Coleman (D)*, Cleave Simpson (R)*, Meghan Lukens (D)* | 1 | 5 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-080 | |||
| SB086 | Reduce Premium Cigar Excise Tax Rate | 03/02/2026 | Effective July 1, 2026, the bill defines "premium cigar" and reduces the statutory excise taxation rate on premium cigars to 20% of the manufacturer's list price (MLP) from the current rates for all non-cigarette tobacco products other than moist snuff of 36% of the MLP from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027, and 42% of the MLP on and after July 1, 2027, effectively rolling back the increases in the statutory taxation rate for such tobacco products since 2005. The bill does not affect taxation of premium cigars under the state constitution, which imposes an additional 20% tax. | NO | Bill seeks to repeal an earlier statute which added additional taxes on “premium hand rolled” cigars. And we had some Board members liking the tax reduction. But why not reduce ALL taxes, and why only premium cigars? And the bill gets punctuated with the insufferable Safety Clause, thereby out of the grasp of review by the voters. Public safety is at risk with a tax reduction? Really? No cigar for this one! | Dead | Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely | 03/03/2026 | Tom Sullivan (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-086 | ||
| SB103 | At-Risk Public School Program & Public School Accountability | 03/02/2026 | The bill requires school districts and charter schools to adopt a policy that directs additional resources and supports toward at-risk public school students. The policy may implement the utilization of community-school-based learning programs, as well as wraparound services, after-school programs, and tutoring services, among other community-focused programs. Subdivision regulations adopted by a board of county commissioners must include land set aside for public schools of a school district. | NO | Bill seeks to direct local school districts to prioritize at-risk students. Bill also directs county commissioners to require land ‘set asides’ in new residential development for schools and/or parks. This seems to violate Colorado’s requirement for single subject bills. And just who is the legislature to tell local school districts how to prioritize and spend local money? Unfunded mandates coupled with a grotesque misuse of the Safety Clause. | In Committee | Senate Education Committee Hearing (13:30:00 3/18/2026 SCR 357) | 03/18/2026 | Chris Kolker (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-103 | ||
| SB106 | Opt-out of Mail Ballot Packets for Elections | 03/02/2026 | The bill requires the secretary of state (secretary) to adopt rules to establish a process by which a registered elector may choose not to automatically receive a mail ballot packet for all elections that the county clerk and recorder conducts by mail ballot on or after November 2, 2027. The rules must include a process by which a registered elector who has chosen not to receive mail ballots may choose to resume receipt of mail ballots. The secretary is required to develop public-facing communications explaining that choosing not to receive a mail ballot packet is voluntary. A registered elector who has chosen not to receive a mail ballot packet must either vote in person at a voter service and polling center or request a mail ballot. For each mail ballot election conducted by a county clerk and recorder on or after November 2, 2027, each county clerk and recorder is required to report to the secretary the number of registered electors in the county who chose not to receive a mail ballot packet for the election and the number of mail ballot packets that the county clerk and recorder did not send as a result for that election. The secretary is required to use the information submitted by each county clerk and recorder to determine the reduction in the costs that each county incurred in conducting the election and to make the information reported by the county clerk and recorders and the savings determined by the secretary available to the public on the secretary's website. | YES | REVISED RESPONSE: The bill requires the Secretary of State to adopt rules to establish a process by which a registered voter may choose not to automatically receive a ballot packet for all elections held by mail. This bill increases fees on businesses to cover costs of implementation of this mailing opt-out which is not likely to be widely used, at least at the outset. It appears intended to be a way back to in-person voting. Whether it reduces or increases overall costs to the taxpayers is not yet determinable. The bill will certainly reduce the costs of printing and mailing. Most importantly, this bill reduces the potential for fraud through mail-in voting which is a positive step toward strengthening voting rights.The bill requires the Secretary of State to adopt rules to establish a process by which a registered voter may choose not to automatically receive a ballot packet for all elections held by mail. This bill increases fees on businesses to cover costs of implementation of this mailing opt-out which is not likely to be widely used. A more effective way to decrease mailing costs and increase election integrity would be to return to having in-person voting with an option for voters to request a mail ballot as needed. | Dead | Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely | 03/05/2026 | Lynda Zamora Wilson (R)* | 1 | 1 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-106 | ||
| SB116 | Property Tax Modifications | 03/09/2026 | Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the bill give municipalities the authority, upon voter approval, to levy a lodging tax up to the same rate and for the same purposes allowed to counties to be collected, administered, and enforced by the state. The bill prohibits, commencing on and after January 1, 2027, any municipal tax on lodging or on the business of providing lodging that is not a municipal lodging tax adopted in accordance with the requirements of section 3. An existing municipal tax on lodging or on the business of providing lodging adopted on or before December 31, 2026, is allowed to continue under the bill. However, there can be no tax rate increase, expansion of tax base, or material change in uses of the tax revenue absent adoption of a municipal lodging tax that is in accordance with the requirements of section 3. Section 4 clarifies that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in any case in which the income approach is used to determine the actual value of any lodging property, the assessor shall include "net rental income" and "resort fee income", each income amount capitalized to value at a rate typical within the relevant market in the actual value of the lodging property. "Net rental income" means the net operating income generated from payments made in connection with the rental of the lodging property, including any unit within or connected to the lodging property, whether or not the unit is individually and separately owned, after the deduction of expenses typical in the relevant market and excluding any rents remitted to a unit owner for use of the owner's unit. "Resort fee income" means the net income generated from the collection of any fee or charge, however denominated, by the property, that is retained by the property but does not include any fee or charge amounts that the property remits to any county, city, city and county, special district, or other local government. Sections 5 and 6 extend the portable qualified-senior primary residence benefit created for property tax years 2025 and 2026 to future property tax years. Section 7 changes the state property tax exemption for business personal property, commencing on and after January 1, 2027, by setting the exemption threshold for such property at $60,000, without an adjustment for inflation, and by eliminating the reimbursement provision for property tax losses due to the exemption. Sections 8 and 9 subject the municipal lodging tax authorized by section 3 to the department of revenue's administrative scope and mandatory electronic filing and payment requirements. | NO | Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the bill give municipalities the authority, upon voter approval, to levy a lodging tax up to the same rate and for the same purposes allowed to counties to be collected, administered, and enforced by the state. The bill prohibits, commencing on and after January 1, 2027, any municipal tax on lodging or on the business of providing lodging that is not a municipal lodging tax adopted in accordance with the requirements of section 3. This new municipal lodging tax will be collected and administered by the state's Department of Revenue, which will retain a portion to cover its costs. This bill limits local control of towns to create or adjust their own lodging taxes. It would likely increase property taxes for hotels by having to include resort fees in valuations, it may hit resort areas especially hard, and generally appears to be state overreach on local decisions. Consequently, this added tax may reduce tourism. | In Committee | Senate Finance Committee Hearing (14:00:00 3/17/2026 SCR 357) | 03/17/2026 | Michael Weissman (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-116 | ||
| SB117 | Permissible Methods of Selling Lottery Tickets | 03/02/2026 | The Colorado lottery (lottery) commission adopted rules that removed a prohibition on the use of credit or other noncash bases to buy lottery tickets and instant scratch game tickets. The bill reinstates the prohibition on the lottery or any licensed lottery retailer from selling lottery tickets or instant scratch game tickets on a credit or other noncash basis and requires the lottery to sell such tickets for cash only, including checks, money orders, and debit cards. The bill also prohibits the online sale of any lottery ticket or instant scratch game ticket, regardless of payment method. The bill requires the lottery commission to adopt rules implementing the bill. | NO | This bill reinstates a prohibition on the sale of lottery or instant scratch game tickets on a credit or noncash basis and also prohibits online sale of lottery or instant scratch game tickets. While several members expressed distaste at state sponsored games of chance in general, the Board felt the State shouldn’t play nanny on how ticket purchasers paid for tickets and noted that this bill would result in decreased revenues for children’s programs. And a Safety Clause? Is this bill really necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety??? | In Committee | Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations | 03/03/2026 | Judy Amabile (D)*, Jeff Bridges (D)*, Javier Mabrey (D)*, Matt Soper (R)*, Matt Ball (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Julie Gonzales (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D)*, Mary Bradfield (R)*, Kyle Brown (D)*, Meg Froelich (D)*, Lorena García (D)*, Lori Goldstein (D)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Kenny Nguyen (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)*, Yara Zokaie (D)* | 1 | 2 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-117 | ||
| SB135 | State Public K-12 Education Funding | 03/09/2026 | The bill requires the secretary of state to refer a ballot issue at the November 2026 general election to seek voter approval for the state to retain and spend an amount of state revenue equal to the amount of state public K-12 education funding in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending and to increase state public K-12 education funding by up to 2% for 10 years. The bill directs legislative council staff to determine the amount of state public K-12 education funding and describes how legislative council staff will make that determination. The bill creates a positive factor to provide additional funding for each district. A positive factor is equal to the lesser of 2% of statewide total program funding for the 2026-27 budget year multiplied by a district's total program as a percentage of the statewide total program or the amount that the state is authorized to retain and spend that would otherwise have been in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending multiplied by a district's total program as a percentage of the statewide total program. A district may only use its positive factor funding for increasing teacher pay, improving teacher retention, lowering class sizes, and increasing access to career and technical courses. The bill creates the excess state revenues account (account) within the general fund. The account consists of an amount of money equal to the amount of state revenues in excess of the excess state revenues cap that the state retains for a given fiscal year pursuant to voter approval of the bill. Money in the account must first be spent for paying districts their positive factor and only after that may be spent for any other purpose. The bill directs the state auditor to conduct and publish, for each state fiscal year that the state retains and spends state revenues in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending, a legislative report. That report must include descriptions of: ! The amount of state revenues that the state retained and spent that would otherwise have been in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending; and ! How the state revenues that the state retained and spent that would otherwise have been in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending were expended. Lastly, the bill makes conforming amendments to ensure that voter approval of the bill does not impact the expanded earned income tax credit, the family affordability tax credit, or the affordable housing financing fund. | NO | This bill requires the secretary of state to place a question on the November 2026 ballot asking voters to approve the state retaining and spending more revenue for K-12 public education, specifically an amount equal to what exceeds the state's spending limit, and to increase K-12 funding by up to 2% annually for ten years. So, this continues to fund the dismal performance of our schools. Based on 2024 data, the Common Sense Institute noted that over half of Colorado's third graders are unable to read, write, or perform basic math at grade level. But if the increased money available is not spent on education, the Legislature can spend it any way it wishes. This legislation proposes this voter referendum for the purpose of bypassing TABOR (Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights) limits and allowing the state to keep our TABOR refunds from money that the state over collected in taxes from us. | In Committee | Senate Finance Committee Hearing (00:00:00 3/12/2026 SCR 357) | 03/12/2026 | Jeff Bridges (D)*, Cathy Kipp (D)*, Jennifer Bacon (D)*, Meghan Lukens (D)*, Judy Amabile (D)*, Adrienne Benavidez (D)*, James Coleman (D)*, Lisa Cutter (D)*, Jessie Danielson (D)*, Lindsey Daugherty (D)*, Tony Exum (D)*, Julie Gonzales (D)*, Nick Hinrichsen (D)*, Iman Jodeh (D)*, Chris Kolker (D)*, William Lindstedt (D)*, Janice Marchman (D)*, Kyle Mullica (D)*, Robert Rodriguez (D)*, Marc Snyder (D)*, Tom Sullivan (D)*, Michael Weissman (D)*, Andrew Boesenecker (D)*, Sean Camacho (D)*, Michael Carter (D)*, Monica Duran (D)*, Lori Goldstein (D)*, Eliza Hamrick (D)*, Junie Joseph (D)*, Sheila Lieder (D)*, Mandy Lindsay (D)*, Matt Martinez (D)*, Karen McCormick (D)*, Kenny Nguyen (D)*, Amy Paschal (D)*, Jacqueline Phillips (D)*, Gretchen Rydin (D)*, Lesley Smith (D)*, Rebekah Stewart (D)*, Brianna Titone (D)*, Elizabeth Velasco (D)*, Jenny Willford (D)* | 1 | 0 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-135 | ||
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