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passed · Colorado · Senate May 20, 2026

SJM 2: Memorialize Former Senator Lewis H. Entz

SJM 2 is a memorial resolution honoring former Colorado State Senator Lewis H. Entz, who died in December 2025 at age 94. The bill formally recognizes his decades of service in the Colorado legislature (1969-2005), including eight terms in the House and five in the Senate, with focus on agriculture, water policy, and veterans' affairs. It expresses the legislature’s tribute to his public service and extends condolences to his family. As a procedural resolution, it does not enact policy changes or affect any legislation. The resolution was introduced in the Senate on February 25, 2026.

Matt Martinez (D) Cleave Simpson (R) · 34 co-sponsors

passed both · Colorado · Senate May 13, 2026

SJR 25: Colorado Mining Association's 150th Anniversary

This bill is a Senate Joint Resolution that formally recognizes the Colorado Mining Association for its 150th anniversary in 2026. It highlights the organization's historical significance and its role in supporting Colorado's mining industry, which contributes billions to the state's economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs. The resolution acknowledges the association's partnerships with state and federal agencies in promoting safety, environmental stewardship, and responsible mineral development. This measure does not change any laws or policies but serves as an official acknowledgment of the association's contributions to Colorado's history and economy.

passed · Colorado · House May 13, 2026

HB 1054: Protections for Worker Safety

Section 1 of the bill requires an employer to ensure the employer's workplace is free from recognized hazards, as interpreted consistent with the federal occupational safety and health administration's interpretation of the general duty clause of the 'Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970' (OSH Act) as of September 1, 2025. Additionally, employers have the general duty to:Ensure that each workplace is constructed, equipped, arranged, operated, and conducted as to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health, and safety of all individuals employed or working in the workplace; andComply with standards for workplace health and safety adopted by rule by the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment (division) attorney general. The bill authorizes the following actions to address workplace health and safety concerns:The attorney general or the division may refer workplace health and safety concerns to relevant state or local authorities;The attorney general, the division, a labor organization, a worker organization, or a person aggrieved by a violation of the bill may file a civil action;For each violation of the bill or of rules adopted pursuant to the bill, a court may order the person an employer that violates the bill or rules to pay statutory damages to a person aggrieved by the violation; andA court may order a person an employer that violates the bill or rules adopted pursuant to the bill to pay a penalty to the attorney general for each violation. The bill creates the workplace health and safety fund (fund) into which penalties collected pursuant to the bill are credited. The money in the fund may be used by the division attorney general for specified purposes. The bill authorizes the division attorney general to adopt rules:To replace any requirement of the OSH Act or the 'Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977' that is repealed or revoked; or amended in any manner that results in the federal protections of workers' rights or worker safety becoming less stringent; and To define standards for workplace health and safety if there is no standard in effect under the OSH Act; andAs necessary to implement the bill. Section 2 authorizes the attorney general to apply to the appropriate district court for an order for specified relief if a person fails to obey an investigative demand, subpoena, warrant, or other investigative process related to worker and employee protection. Sections 2 3 through 8 11 make conforming amendments.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Labor & Employment

passed · Colorado · Senate May 13, 2026

SB 43: 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.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

passed both · Colorado · Senate May 13, 2026

SB 48: Remove Exception to Marry with Judicial Approval

Current law requires an individual to be at least 18 years old in order to obtain a marriage license; except that a minor who is 16 or 17 years old may obtain a marriage license with judicial approval. The bill repeals this exception, therefore requiring that an individual be at least 18 years old to obtain a marriage license.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

passed · Colorado · Senate May 12, 2026

SB 192: Producer Responsibility Dues Appeals Process

The producer responsibility program for statewide recycling (program) provides recycling services to covered entities in the state and is financed through annual dues assessed against producers of products that use packaging materials and paper products (producers). The bill reaffirms the authority of the solid and hazardous waste commission in the department of public health and environment (department) to direct an appeals process whereby producers may contest the program dues assessed against them by requesting a hearing before the producer responsibility program for statewide recycling advisory board (advisory board). If a producer requests a hearing before the advisory board, the advisory board is required to hold the hearing and issue written recommendations to the department as to whether the dues assessed against the producer should be adjusted. The department is required to make a determination whether to approve or reject the advisory board's recommendations regarding the assessed dues within 45 days after receiving the advisory board's recommendations on the matter. The department's determination is a final agency action subject to judicial review.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Environment

passed · Colorado · Senate May 12, 2026

SB 183: State Funding for Colorado School of Mines Capital Construction Costs

The bill requires the state treasurer, on behalf of the state, to execute, no later than December 31, 2026, financed purchase of an asset or certificate of participation agreements (financing agreements) to finance a portion of the capital costs related to the capital renewal of a facility at the Colorado school of mines. The financing agreements are to be issued in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $13 million plus reasonable and necessary administrative, monitoring, and closing costs and interest, including capitalized interest. The anticipated annual state-funded payments for the principal and interest components due under the financing agreements must not exceed the difference between $17.5 million and the amount of the annual state-funded payments for the agreements entered into pursuant to House Bill 24-1231, with principal amortization not occurring before July 1, 2027. The proceeds from the financing agreements will be used for the renewal of critical building systems of Guggenheim hall at the Colorado school of mines.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Education

passed · Colorado · House May 12, 2026

HB 1273: Transportation Network Company Maximum Percent Fare Retention

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, taxes, airport fees, and payments for a certified driver support organization . The amount that a TNC excludes from a consumer fare payment for a certified driver support organization must not exceed the per-task amount determined by rule and must be remitted to the certified driver support organization. Pass-throughs must be paid to the driver. 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. The bill adds disclosures regarding airport fees, pass-throughs, taxes, and payments for a driver support organization to be added to periodic disclosures TNCs make to the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment and changes the frequency of the disclosures from semi-annual reporting to annual reporting. Finally, the bill applies the same process to complaints against TNCs concerning violations of disclosure and deactivation policy requirements as the process that is applied to wage complaints.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Labor & Employment

passed · Colorado · House May 12, 2026

HB 1281: Homicide Criminal Offenses

Under current law, if a person engages in conduct that creates a grave risk to human life with an extreme indifference to the value of human life and causes the death of another person, the person commits first degree murder. The bill requires that the person:Cause the death of more than one person;Cause the death of one person and cause serious bodily injury to 2 or more persons by means of a deadly weapon;Cause the death of a child who is under 12 years old; orCause the death of a peace officer, emergency medical service provider, emergency medical care provider, or firefighter engaged in the performance of their duties. The bill creates a new charge of murder in the second degree if a person engages in conduct that creates a grave risk to human life with an extreme indifference to the value of human life and causes the death of only one other person. The bill expands the conduct by which a person can commit criminally negligent homicide to include proximately causing the death of another person while operating or driving a motor vehicle with criminal negligence. The bill creates the offense of aggravated vehicular homicide by operating a motor vehicle in a reckless manner or while under the influence of or impaired by alcohol or other drugs and causing the death of another person when the person also:Has been convicted twice of driving under the influence or driving while ability impaired;Has been convicted of vehicular homicide or vehicular assault;Commits the offense while eluding or attempting to elude law enforcement;Commits the offense while in flight from the commission of another felony offense, not including a traffic offense; orCommits the offense while driving at a high rate of speed, creating an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person. The bill creates the new offense of negligent vehicular homicide if a person drives a motor vehicle with criminal negligence and causes the death of another person. Negligent vehicular homicide is a class 5 felony.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✗ Criminal Justice

passed · Colorado · Senate May 12, 2026

SB 45: Nuclear Workforce Development & Education Program

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 (threshold) . The bill imposes requirements to report to the Colorado commission on higher education and the general assembly about the council's funding sources, grant program implementation, and other uses of the grant program money. If the cash fund balance does not reach the threshold on or before September 1, 2027, the council is repealed and the money in the cash fund is refunded to the grantors or donors. Otherwise, the bill repeals the council, effective September 1, 2033, unless the council is extended following a sunset review.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes ✓ Education ✓ Energy

passed both · Colorado · House May 11, 2026

HB 1206: Improved Funding to Support Development

The bill gives city and county housing authorities (housing authority) the power to provide for the levy of a sales tax, sales and use tax, or property tax both within the jurisdiction of the authority, the resulting revenue of which will be directed to the housing authority, subject to the following conditions:The city or county has adopted a resolution determining that the levying of the tax will fairly distribute the costs of the housing authority's activities among the beneficiaries of the housing authority's activities and will not impose an undue burden on any particular group of people or businesses ; andA ballot question has been submitted to a vote of the registered electors of the city or county and subsequently approved by a majority of such registered electors, and the ballot question describes the purposes for which the tax will be used by the housing authority and complies with section 20 of article X of the state constitution. All new tax revenues generated are irrevocably pledged to the authority for the purposes set forth in the ballot question. If a sales or sales and use tax is approved by the voters of a housing authority:The rate of the sales or sales and use tax must not exceed 1% on any transaction taxable by the state , excluding the sale or use of cigarettes ; andThe executive director of the department of revenue shall collect, administer, and enforce the tax, and the city or county shall pay the net incremental cost incurred by the department in the administration and collection of the tax. The authority shall designate a liaison to coordinate with the department of revenue to implement the collection of the tax and to identify people eligible to collect the sales and use tax; and The tax revenue must be directed to a fund of the authority.The provisions authorizing the levy of the sales or sales and use tax will only take effect if the department of revenue receives an amount of gifts, grants, and donations sufficient to pay for the department's costs in administering the tax. If an ad valorem property tax is approved by the voters of a housing authority:The rate of the ad valorem property tax must not exceed 5 mills on each dollar of valuation for assessment of the taxable property within the authority's jurisdiction;The board of county commissioners of the county in which the housing authority is located shall levy the ad valorem property tax upon the valuation for assessment of all taxable property within the authority's jurisdiction;The officials charged with collecting ad valorem property taxes for the county in which the housing authority is located shall collect the taxes at the time and in the form and manner and with like interest and penalties as other property taxes collected within the county;The property tax revenue must be directed to a fund of the authority; andAll property tax revenue, together with interest thereon and penalties for default in payment thereof, and all costs of collecting the same shall constitute, until paid, a perpetual lien on and against the property taxed, and such lien shall be on a parity with the tax lien of other general taxes. The bill gives county housing authorities the power to issue revenue or general obligation bonds and to pledge the authority's revenues and revenue-raising powers for the payment of such bonds. The bill allows an urban renewal authority to enter into a shortfall guaranty contract with an urban renewal project developer (developer) specifying that, if the tax increment revenue is insufficient to pay the indebtedness incurred by the authority that is due, the developer is obligated to make a direct payment covering the full amount of the insufficiency. A shortfall guaranty contract:Constitutes a lien on the urban renewal project property the same as, and equal in priority to, a tax lien;Has priority over any mortgage, lien that is not a tax lien, or other encumbrance;Constitutes a covenant running with the land for the term of the contract; andMay be recorded against the real property upon which the urban renewal project is developed.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes ✓ Housing

passed · Colorado · House May 11, 2026

HB 1221: Tax Expenditure Adjustments

The bill adjusts 3 2 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 4 3 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 4 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 2 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, 3 and 5 4 .(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes