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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1263 and pass it. The act sets rules for chatbots that hold conversations with the public. An operator has to make a reasonable effort to work out whether a user is a child. It then owes extra duties to those users. It also has to publish disclosures and report to the state each year. Shopping assistants, business tools and developer software are left out. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports AI Regulation

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Voted to pass House Bill 1139. Health insurers use artificial intelligence to review whether to cover care. The act says such a system must judge from the patient's own medical history, not from group data alone. It must not discriminate, and the insurer has to keep audit records and check how well it works. A denial based on medical need cannot rest on the machine alone. A licensed clinician has to review and approve it. Insurers, Medicaid and the children's health plan also cannot cover therapy given by a machine. The Colorado House passed it 47-15 and the governor signed it into law.

March 16, 2026Supports AI Regulation

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 25B-004. A 2024 Colorado law makes companies that build or use high-risk artificial intelligence guard against bias. They must also tell a person when such a system is deciding about them. Those duties were due to start on February 1, 2026. The act moves every one of those dates to June 30, 2026. It changes nothing else. The Colorado House passed it 48-14 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 26, 2025Opposes AI Regulation

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1418 and pass it. Online games sell add-ons that give a player an advantage or change the game. The bill would have set up a youth mental health body paid for by a fee on those sales. The fee would have started at five percent. Buying the game itself would not have been charged. The money would have paid for youth mental health grants and after-school programs. The Colorado House voted 38-26 to accept those changes and pass the bill, but the governor vetoed it.

May 13, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1147 and pass it. A host home is a private house where an adult with a developmental disability lives with a paid carer. These homes need no state license, so nobody had a full list of them. The act makes the state build a list of such homes, set risk criteria and open a complaint route. Provider agencies must file the details and the state must keep the list current. The Colorado House voted 44-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 178. Colorado uses a fee on insurers and hospitals to hold down premiums on the individual market. The act lets the program borrow, issuing up to $100 million in bonds from 2027. It sets how the money must be split. At least half goes to the backup fund that holds premiums down. A study due by July 2027 must ask whether a basic health plan would work better. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 167. Some drugs cost less paid for straight out, but that money used not to count. From 2028 an insurer must count what a patient paid a pharmacy directly. It goes toward the patient's yearly cap on what they pay. The patient has 90 days to send proof, and the credit stops at the in-network price. The Colorado House passed it 48-15 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 138. Colorado hospitals must offer discounted care to patients on low incomes, but the paperwork put people off. The act sets one uniform application that every facility has to use. A hospital must tell the patient the answer, the income band it used, and the most it can ask for each month. A patient turned down gets an appeal, or a statement that nothing is owed. The Colorado House passed it 49-15 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1425. Applied behavior analysis is a therapy used mostly with autistic children. Anyone practicing it in Colorado will need a state license from a new board. To get one you must hold a national certificate in good standing and pass a fingerprint check. A helper without a license may still work under supervision. That helper has to use a plainer title, such as behavior technician. The Colorado House passed it 45-19 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 6. Insurers have often made non-opioid pain drugs harder to get than opioids. The act says the hurdles for a non-opioid pain drug cannot be tighter than for an opioid. The patient's share of the cost cannot be higher either. From 2027 smaller plans must carry at least one non-opioid choice. Large employer plans follow in 2028. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 113. A recovery residence is a shared home for people staying sober while they rebuild their lives. From July 2027 running one without a state license is unlawful, with a daily fine. The rule leaves out family homes, treatment centers, shelters and long-term supported housing. It also leaves out reentry programs open to people with no such diagnosis. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1327. Some large employers hold staff below 30 hours a week, leaving them on state Medicaid. The bill would have created a state body charging a fee to employers with 500 or more such workers. Those employers would have had to report each worker's hours and pay each year. The money would have supported workers' access to care and repaid employers who let staff buy into a company plan. The Colorado House voted 35-30 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1019 and pass it. Kidney disease usually has no symptoms early on, and most people who have it do not know. The act makes health plans cover a yearly kidney check at no charge to the patient. The check covers a blood test for kidney function and a urine test for protein. Large employer plans start in 2027 and individual and small group plans in 2028. The Colorado House voted 45-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1414. Getting a copy of your own medical records can cost hundreds of dollars. The act caps what a hospital may charge a patient's lawyer at $400 for a record over 664 pages. Below that page count the ordinary reasonable fee still applies. The cap is adjusted for inflation every two years from 2028. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1235. Congress added work and volunteering rules to Medicaid. The act tells the state board to write the Colorado rules so people keep cover with the least paperwork. From March 2027 the state must post monthly figures on approvals and denials. It must also show how many people come back within 90 days of being turned down. Medical ride brokers must report rides asked for, given, dropped and complained about. The Colorado House passed it 44-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 16, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 32. Colorado law used to let a federal panel decide which vaccines are advised here. The act has the state board of health set its own list of shots for adults. The board weighs the federal panel and the main doctors' groups. The act also widens the HPV shot coverage rule from women to everyone the list covers. The Colorado House passed it 43-19 and the governor signed it into law.

March 16, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1139. Health insurers use artificial intelligence to review whether to cover care. The act says such a system must judge from the patient's own medical history, not from group data alone. It must not discriminate, and the insurer has to keep audit records and check how well it works. A denial based on medical need cannot rest on the machine alone. A licensed clinician has to review and approve it. Insurers, Medicaid and the children's health plan also cannot cover therapy given by a machine. The Colorado House passed it 47-15 and the governor signed it into law.

March 16, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1002. People looking for a therapist often find that the insurer's list is out of date. From 2027 an insurer must check each year whether a quiet mental health provider is still in the network. It then has five working days to correct the list. The act also brings those providers under the state's sign-up deadlines, which used to cover only doctors. An insurer must pay for care a trainee gives under a licensed provider's watch. The Colorado House passed it 51-13 and the governor signed it into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1096. Direct primary care means paying a doctor a flat monthly fee instead of per visit. Medicaid does not cover it, and some members were told they could not buy it themselves. The bill would have barred the state from stopping a Medicaid member doing so. The doctor could not have billed Medicaid for the same care, and the member would have signed a form saying so. The Colorado House voted 40-22 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

February 23, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 25B-1006 and pass it. Federal money had been holding down the price of health plans that people buy on their own. That help was set to end after 2025. If Congress does not renew it, the act puts $100 million into a state fund. The state raises the money by selling tax credits to companies, and covers any gap from the general fund. The fund lowers what those buyers pay each month, and some of their other costs. The act also changes a state program for low-income people who cannot get federal tax credits or Medicaid. Their subsidized plans no longer have to be free or cover at least 94 percent of costs. The new goal is to cover as many people as the money allows. The Colorado House voted 41-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Co-sponsored a state law protecting patients who pay their own medical bills: after a provider gives a written cost estimate, the final bill may not exceed that estimate by more than 15 percent or $400. The law also made clear the limit does not apply to emergencies or unforeseen complications. The governor signed it on June 4, 2025 (House Bill 25-1317).

June 4, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Sponsored HB25-1026; the governor vetoed the bill repealing inmate health-care copayments on May 29, 2025.

May 29, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1309 and pass it. The act makes state-regulated health plans cover gender-affirming care. A plan cannot deny or limit that coverage. Covered care includes hormone therapy, hair removal, chest surgery, facial procedures and genital surgery. A provider has to find the care medically necessary to treat gender dysphoria. The insurance commissioner writes the rules. The state drug monitoring program has to hide archived testosterone records from view. A state health insurance body can use gifts, grants and private money toward the cost of care the state legally protects. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1094 and pass it. The act changes how pharmacy benefit managers get paid. These middlemen run drug benefits for health plans. They may earn only a flat fee for each prescription, written into their agreement with the plan. They cannot earn money tied to a drug's price, such as mark-ups, spread pricing, or money from drug makers. They cannot build a drug list that favors a brand over an equal generic unless it costs less and the patient pays less. They have to pay pharmacies at least the national average cost of the drug plus a fair dispensing fee. Plans must be able to see claim-level cost data and to audit the manager each year. The rules start on January 1, 2027. The Colorado House voted 49-16 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 124. Nonprofit hospitals buy some drugs at a deep federal discount, then get paid more for them. The bill would have made larger nonprofit hospitals spend at least 80 percent of that gain on care for low-income patients. Small independent hospitals, rural critical-access hospitals and children's hospitals would have been left out. Covered hospitals could not have spent the gain on executive pay, lobbying, image ads, gifts or board costs, and would have had to report what they buy and earn under the program. The Colorado House passed it 42-23, but the Senate refused to accept the House's changes on the session's last day and the bill died.

May 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 48. The act makes large employer health plans cover treatment for obesity and for pre-diabetes. That covers a diabetes prevention program, nutrition therapy, and weight loss surgery. It also covers intensive coaching to change diet and daily habits. Plans must also offer employers the chance to buy coverage for weight loss drugs. That must include at least one GLP-1 drug. A carrier need not offer coverage whose premiums would not cover the expected benefits. The state's low-cost children's health plan is left out of the new rule. It applies to plans issued or renewed from January 1, 2027. The Colorado House passed it 41-24 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 130. The act writes emergency care duties into state law. They track the federal rules hospitals already follow. A place must examine anyone who asks for emergency care, or who plainly looks like they need it. It must then treat the person until they are stable. It cannot hold up care to ask how the patient will pay. Emergency care includes an abortion or a sterilization when that is what makes the patient stable. A facility can move or send home a patient who is not stable only under set conditions. Those are the patient's written request, or a doctor's signed statement that the benefits outweigh the risks. Another hospital must also have agreed to take the patient. A facility cannot punish staff who refuse an unsafe transfer, and it counts as a public place that may not discriminate. The state can investigate a facility, and a doctor who breaks the rules commits unprofessional conduct. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 289. The act creates the Colorado Drug Donation Program so unused medicine can reach people who need it. Pharmacies, clinics, care homes, jails, prisons, wholesalers and government agencies can donate. Hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and prescribers can take the medicine in and hand it out. People who are poor, uninsured or underinsured come first. Controlled substances, compounded drugs and medicine dispensed outside the country are left out. Donors and recipients have to keep records, check the medicine is safe and in date, and destroy what does not qualify. People acting in good faith are protected from lawsuits and from discipline. The Colorado House passed it 48-15 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 118. The act makes health plans that cover maternity care pay in full for up to three prenatal office visits. The patient owes no copay, deductible or share of the cost for those visits. Standardized Colorado Option plans are left out. It applies to plans issued or renewed from January 1, 2027. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1026 and pass it. Colorado makes prisoners pay part of the cost when they ask to see a doctor, dentist, counselor or eye doctor. The bill would have ended that charge. It covered specialist and emergency care too. It would also have barred a fee when a prisoner misses or turns down a visit. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor vetoed it.

May 1, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 196. Colorado already makes health plans cover a list of preventive services free to the patient. That list follows federal expert advice. The act protects that coverage if the federal advice is repealed or changed. The insurance commissioner can then require plans to follow the advice that was in force in January 2025. The commissioner can instead follow a Colorado nurse and doctor task force. That group has to consult the national medical society for the illness at issue. It also has to hear from patients, experts and insurers. Plans tied to a health savings account are exempt where federal law requires it. The Colorado House passed it 40-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on Senate Bill 226 and pass it. Colorado runs a program giving chiropractic care, massage therapy and acupuncture to people with spinal cord and similar injuries. It serves people receiving home and community-based services who are over 18. The act keeps the program running past the date it was due to end. The Colorado House voted 50-15 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 23, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Sponsored SB26-113; the governor signed licensing requirements for recovery residences on June 2, 2026.

June 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1225 and pass it. A community solar garden lets people without a good roof buy a share and get a credit on their bill. The act lets a project hold that credit steady for low-income members. Other members get a credit that shifts each year. A utility also cannot bill a project for hookup work more than 30 days before it spends the money. The Colorado House voted 45-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1111 and pass it. Farmers and commercial sprayers often have no safe place to take leftover pesticide. The act creates a state-run disposal and container recycling program that starts in 2027. It is paid for by fees on the sprayers who use it and on companies that register pesticides for sale in Colorado. Using the program is voluntary, and only those who use it pay the disposal fee. The Colorado House voted 41-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 3. An electric car battery holds valuable metals and can catch fire if it is thrown away. The act makes the companies that supply those batteries take back used ones and pay to collect them. Putting a car battery in a landfill is banned. From July 2029 each battery needs a label listing what is in it. The Colorado House passed it 49-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass House Bill 1112. Injection wells push liquid underground and are regulated by the federal government. The bill would have let Colorado's energy commission apply to run that job itself for three classes of well. It would have set fees to cover the cost of doing so. The stated aims include aquifer recharge and a single permitting route where state and federal rules now overlap. The Colorado House voted 51-14 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 11, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1226 and pass it. Some Colorado power plants still burn coal and put out large amounts of smog-forming and acid-forming gases. The act tells the state to write emission limits for units that gave off 200 tons or more in 2024. A unit that plans to keep running past the end of 2034 has to fit pollution controls and meet those limits. A unit that closes or switches to gas by then is left out. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1132 and pass it. Native plants feed bees, butterflies and birds whose numbers are falling. The act tells four state agencies, including transportation and natural resources, to favor native plants on state land projects where it is workable. Each agency has to set five-year and ten-year goals, buy seed together to cut costs, and train staff. Agencies must also mark pollinator zones along roads and stop mowing them except for safety. The Colorado House voted 44-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 146. Takeaway meals arrive with cutlery and sauce packets nobody asked for. The bill would have made a restaurant or delivery app ask first before handing over single-use serviceware. Only the items a customer asked for or confirmed could have been given. Bundled packs holding more than one kind of item would have been barred. The Colorado House voted 39-25 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

May 6, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1008 and pass it. Colorado's outdoor economy is worth about $66 billion a year. The act gives the parks and wildlife division a formal job of planning and coordinating outdoor recreation. It must work toward the goals in the state outdoors strategy and report on its planning. The act adds accessible experiences as a defined aim and does not change water rights. The Colorado House voted 46-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 141. Colorado records thousands of crashes with wildlife each year, and they have killed drivers and passengers. The act adds an optional $5 fee when a driver registers a vehicle. Three quarters of the money goes to wildlife crossing structures and a quarter to keeping habitat connected. A driver can decline the fee, and declining cannot stop the registration. The Colorado House passed it 49-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass House Bill 1342. Feeding bears was already a Colorado offense, but only where the person meant to lure one. The act makes it enough that a person knowingly leaves food out where a bear is likely to come. A first offense still brings a warning. The fine for a third or later offense rises from $2,000 to $5,000, and farming is exempt. The Colorado House passed it 40-25 and the governor signed it into law.

April 22, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1007 and pass it. A small plug-in solar panel can sit on a balcony and feed power into a wall outlet. For a panel of up to 1,920 watts, the act bars a utility from charging a fee or making the customer ask permission. From 2027 a homeowners association cannot unfairly ban these panels, but it can set safety rules. Utilities must also allow meter collar adapters, which save the cost of a new panel box. The Colorado House voted 45-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1268 and pass it. Old mines, closed landfills and finished oil and gas sites sit idle across Colorado. The act lets a city or county mark such land as a renewable energy reinvestment area. It can then put future growth in property tax there toward a solar, wind or storage project. The state energy office must publish a plain guide to siting by September 2027. The Colorado House voted 44-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 21. Colorado's clean fleet enterprise pays part of the cost when a fleet buys cleaner vehicles. The act lets it also help small fleets trade an old diesel truck from 2009 or earlier for a truck from 2018 or later. The old truck has to be scrapped by the dealer, with a hole cut through the engine block. Only fleets of 50 or fewer heavy trucks under $100 million in revenue can apply, and the program ends in 2032. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 16. Plastic is shipped as tiny raw pellets, and spills wash into rivers and streams. The act bars any facility in Colorado from discharging plastic pellets, flakes, fibers or powders into state waters or onto land. The state cannot issue a permit allowing such a discharge. The ban takes effect in August 2027. The Colorado House passed it 41-18 and the governor signed it into law.

March 17, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass House Bill 1145. The state tests drinking water in mobile home parks and can order a park owner to fix it. The act adds new grounds to step in: harm to a household's money, or water not fit for cooking and washing. A park owner who does not confirm that residents were told can be ordered to do it. The cost of the fix still cannot be passed to residents. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 72. Kratom is a plant product sold in shops, and Colorado already bars selling it to anyone under 21. The act makes several kratom sales a deceptive trade practice. Those include selling to someone under 21, leaving it where someone under 21 can reach it, and selling lab-made kratom compounds. The state and buyers can act on a breach. The Colorado House passed it 47-18 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 7. A prescribed burn is a fire lit on purpose to clear fuel before a wildfire can use it. The act creates a state fund to pay damage claims when such a burn causes harm. It starts with $250,000 and pays claims the state has checked. A single burn's claims are capped by what is in the fund when the claim is filed. A burn has to be registered with the state, and a certified burn manager has to be there, for the fund to apply. The Colorado House passed it 44-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1269 and pass it. The act creates a Building Decarbonization Enterprise in the Colorado Energy Office. It offers large building owners technical help, financing, energy audits and tracking software. Owners of covered buildings pay a fee to fund it, which the act treats as a fee rather than a tax. Covered buildings keep reporting their energy use each year. The enterprise can agree alternative timelines with an owner who cannot meet a target on schedule. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 321. The act targets vehicle air pollution in parts of Colorado that fail federal air quality standards. The air quality commission has to write rules for the emissions inspection program in those areas. It updates who may hold the state inspection contract and how inspections run. The Colorado House passed it 44-20 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1267 and pass it. The act sets minimum standards for public electric vehicle charging. The state's oil and public safety division has to write those rules by July 1, 2026 and enforce them. It works with the Colorado Energy Office on the standards. The act also changes the state's electric vehicle grant fund and lowers a delivery fee charged by a state energy body. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 163. The act creates the Battery Stewardship Act, which puts recycling on the companies that make batteries. A producer has to join a stewardship organization and run an approved plan for collecting, moving and recycling batteries. A producer that does not take part cannot sell batteries or products containing them in Colorado. From July 1, 2029 retailers cannot sell those products either. A shop does not have to be a drop-off point, but one that volunteers must follow the plan. Plans have to set collection targets and report on how they are met. The Colorado House passed it 44-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 286. When federal rules require cleaner reformulated gasoline in an area with dirty air, the state can now fine a retailer that sells fuel failing the standard. The fine can reach $5,000 a day. A seller has a defense if it relied on a transfer document showing the fuel complied. The power starts on August 15, 2025. The Colorado House passed it 43-20 and the governor signed it into law.

May 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 53. The act treats wild bison as wildlife and big game under state law. That makes it illegal to take or hold one without permission from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Bison that are privately owned, held lawfully in captivity, or owned by a tribe are not covered. The act also sets the value of a bison for the penalties that follow illegal taking. The Colorado House passed it 40-24 and the governor signed it into law.

April 28, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 182. Special districts can already lend property owners money for energy improvements and be repaid through the property. The act adds embodied carbon improvements to what such a loan can pay for. Embodied carbon is the pollution created making materials like cement, asphalt and steel. A qualifying improvement has to use materials the state energy office lists and cut those emissions. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1113 and pass it. Colorado already bars local governments from planting nonfunctional turf on their own property. Nonfunctional turf is grass that is only decorative, not lawn people use. From January 1, 2028 the ban also covers new homes in developments of 12 units or more. Local governments have to change their rules by 2028 to limit that turf. The act protects trees: a local government cannot stop someone watering a tree in a drought. The Colorado House voted 41-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1161 and pass it. The act sets a labeling rule for new gas stoves. A store must put a yellow label on the display model. In English and Spanish, it tells the buyer to understand the air quality effects of an indoor gas stove. The label carries a link or a scan code to a state web page on the health effects of those stoves. A store selling online must post the same wording before the sale. The state health department has to build and keep that web page. A store that breaks the rule commits a deceptive trade practice under Colorado's consumer protection law. The Colorado House voted 40-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1277. The bill would have required a warning label on fuel sold at Colorado pumps and store displays from July 2026. In English and Spanish, it would have said that using the product releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases the state links to serious health effects and to global heating. Selling fuel without the label would have counted as a deceptive trade practice. The Colorado House passed it 33-30, but a Senate committee killed it.

April 2, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1009 and pass it. The act lets a fire district or a fire-serving metro district set up a program requiring property owners to clear dead or dry plant material. That means leaves, grass, shrubs, litter and fallen pine needles that can carry a fire. The program has to follow the 2024 international code for building near wildland. The district can charge for doing the work itself, up to $200 per property at a time and $1,200 a year. Districts running such a program have to set up an appeal and adopt rules. The Colorado House voted 43-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 80. The act sets up a cradle to career grant program in the state human services department. Grants go to towns, schools, colleges, tribes and community nonprofits in areas with high poverty. The money pays for help that links early childhood, school and the step into work. The aim is to open a way out of poverty for children and young people under 25. The Colorado House passed it 41-24 and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1033 and pass it. Colorado's cottage food law let people sell home-cooked food only if it could sit safely at room temperature. The act, titled the Tamale Act, lets a home cook sell packaged food needing heat or chilling. That covers tamales, burritos and tortas. A cook may sell one such product with up to five variations, and must list them for the health department. The Colorado House voted 46-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1223 and pass it. The act adds a state income tax credit for families with children, on top of two credits already in law. It starts in the 2027 tax year. The credit is smaller for children aged six and over, and shrinks as family income rises. To help pay for it, the act taxes computer software whether or not it arrives on a disc. The Colorado House voted 36-29 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 52. Colorado coal plants are closing and the towns around them are losing work. From 2027 railroads, utilities, power plants and new factories in those towns must give former coal workers first shot at a job. That applies only to workers who meet the job's needs. The business may still hire someone else if no such worker applies. The Colorado House passed it 45-17 and the governor signed it into law.

February 23, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1003. Colorado set up a small business loan fund to help firms recover from the pandemic. The act keeps it going for problems that come later, not just for COVID-19. It loosens the rule that private money had to be committed first at a four-to-one ratio. The fund may still only lend directly if bank regulators stop banks from doing it. The Colorado House passed it 50-15 and the governor signed it into law.

February 10, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 25B-1001. The federal government lets some business owners deduct part of their income before tax. Colorado has made high earners add that amount back when they figure their state tax. The rule was set to end after 2025, and the act makes it permanent. It applies to single filers above $500,000 and couples above $1 million. Farmers do not have to add the amount back. The Colorado House passed it 43-19 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 23, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Sponsored HB25-1130; the governor signed labor requirements for large government construction projects on June 3, 2025.

June 3, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 167. The act changes how the state invests two public funds. One is the permanent fund that helps pay for schools. Investment goals now include helping Colorado communities as well as protecting the money. Some of the people overseeing the investments must know community investing. The Colorado House passed it 45-19 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1328. Direct care workers help people with daily living at home or in care settings. The act carries out what the state board for that workforce recommended. The board has to look into health benefits for those workers, what they would cost, and how to pay for them. By January 1, 2026 the state has to run a website telling direct care workers their rights and what help exists. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 28, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1272 and pass it. Workers who labor in extreme heat or cold can fall ill or die. The act does not set a heat rule employers must follow. It tells the state labor division to gather data from health records, injury claims and a public reporting page. By July 2028 the division must publish a model plan. The plan covers water, rest breaks, training, and easing new workers into the heat. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 93. Some builders carry no injury insurance, leaving hurt workers with nothing. For a building permit on a job over $1 million, the applicant must file a signed statement before work starts. It swears that everyone on the job, including subcontractors, is covered. Anyone may complain to the state if they think the cover is missing. The Colorado House passed it 44-19 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1054. Colorado has no state workplace safety law of its own and relies on the federal one. The bill would have created a Colorado Worker Safety Act. It would have set a general duty to keep a workplace free of known hazards. That duty would have been read the way federal regulators read theirs in September 2025. Government employers would have been left out. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 160. The act stops an employer from taking the cost of safety gear out of a worker's pay. Ordinary clothing, sunscreen and everyday boots are not counted as safety gear. It also bars a meat plant with 500 or more Colorado workers from unfairly refusing a toilet break on paid time. The fine is $100 a worker, capped at $200 a week. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1283 and pass it. Some workers are asked to hand over a government ID card and do not get it back. The act bars an employer from demanding or keeping a worker's ID card. An employer may hold it only long enough to check work eligibility and copy it, and never more than 10 hours. The employer has to explain the rule in writing, in the worker's own language where the employer knows it. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 47. Colorado firefighters can win collective bargaining rights by a vote of local residents. That vote had to fall at a general election, which limited when it could happen. The act adds coordinated elections to the list. It also fixes the petition threshold to the last regular municipal or district election. The Colorado House passed it 43-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1005. Colorado is the only state that makes a second vote before workers can agree a union security clause. That vote needs a majority of everyone eligible, or three quarters of those voting. The bill would have scrapped that second election. It would also have rewritten the Labor Peace Act's stated aims around good faith bargaining and fair pay. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

March 9, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1001 and pass it. The act strengthens how Colorado enforces wage and hour law. An employer now includes anyone who owns or controls at least a quarter of a company. A minority owner who hands day-to-day control to someone else is not covered. The act limits what an employer can take out of a worker's pay. It also stops the state waiving a penalty when the employer is a repeat offender. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1300 and pass it. The act changes how an injured worker gets treated under workers' compensation. When a doctor asks to approve care, the employer or insurer has to answer using the state division's treatment standards. The employer or insurer also has to tell the worker in writing, within seven days of hearing about the injury, that the worker can pick the treating doctor. The notice has to say where to find the state's list of accredited doctors. The worker picks from that list, normally within 70 miles of home or work. The limit stretches to 100 miles, or further for good cause, when few accredited doctors nearby will take the case. The Colorado House voted 41-24 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 5. Under Colorado's Labor Peace Act, a union contract that requires workers to join or pay the union needs a second vote by the workers, approved by both a majority of all eligible workers and three-quarters of those voting. The bill would have dropped that second vote and the related petitions to revoke such contracts. The Colorado House passed it 43-22, and the governor vetoed it.

May 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 11, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1328. Direct care workers help people with daily living at home or in care settings. The act carries out what the state board for that workforce recommended. The board has to look into health benefits for those workers, what they would cost, and how to pay for them. By January 1, 2026 the state has to run a website telling direct care workers their rights and what help exists. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 28, 2025Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 144. Colorado's paid family and medical leave program lets workers take paid time off for family or health reasons. A parent whose newborn is in intensive care can now take up to 12 more weeks of leave. The premium that funds the program is set at 0.88 percent of wages. The director then sets the rate each year, keeping the fund solvent and the rate steady. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Sponsored SB26-107; the Senate committee postponed Colorado Open Records Act changes indefinitely on March 5, 2026.

March 5, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1079. Colorado has an ethics board that hears complaints about public officials. School boards and special districts sit outside its reach. The bill would have brought them in, so the board could hear complaints, make findings and set penalties. Only board members would have counted, plus a school district's superintendent and the staff a special district's board hires directly. The Colorado House passed it 41-23, but a Senate committee never sent it to the floor and it died when the session ended.

April 28, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1329. Some companies pay a side's legal costs in a lawsuit in return for part of any award. The act targets those funders that a government of concern owns or controls. Such a funder has to file with the Colorado attorney general when the case starts. The filing has to name the funder and include a copy of the funding agreement. Breaking the rule counts as an unfair or deceptive trade practice. The Colorado House passed it 46-16 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Was a lead House sponsor of a bill to change Colorado's open records law, which lets the public ask for government records. The bill would have given agencies five working days instead of three to answer most requests, let them take longer and charge more for requests made to sell products or services, and required agencies to post their records policies publicly. The governor vetoed it on April 17, 2025 (Senate Bill 25-077).

April 17, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 77. Colorado's open records law expects a government to answer a records request in three working days. The bill would have stretched that to five days for everyone but the press, which would have kept three. In hard cases the extra time allowed would have grown from seven days to ten. Agencies would also have had to post their records rules and how to ask for records. The Colorado House passed it 45-19, and the governor vetoed it.

March 31, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 36. Colorado has rules that kick in when prison beds run short, but they made little difference. The trigger moves from a three percent vacancy rate to four percent. When it trips, the department has 48 hours to tell a much longer list, now including sheriffs, probation chiefs, public defenders and community corrections boards. Each of them has to confirm in writing that they got the notice. The Colorado House passed it 41-23 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1117. Colorado licenses marijuana hospitality businesses where people may consume on site. The bill would have let one hold a time-limited event away from its own premises. Stores, growers and product makers could have taken part for consumption, but not for sales. The state licensing authority would have had to write rules for the permits. The Colorado House voted 33-31 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 6, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Served as a lead sponsor of House Bill 26-1220, which the governor signed on May 5, 2026. It cleaned up outdated wording in state law, replacing the old 'acute treatment unit' license with the 'behavioral health entity' license that took its place in 2019.

May 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Co-sponsored a law letting the state discipline nurses who repeatedly and willfully fail to complete death certificates on time (House Bill 26-1296). The governor signed it on May 5, 2026.

May 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Sponsored HB26-1297; the governor signed uniform language for misdemeanor traffic offenses on May 5, 2026.

May 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Sponsored a law fixing outdated welder certification exam references for oil and gas work and renaming those operations energy and carbon management (House Bill 26-1303).

May 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 150. The Denver region's transit district is run by fifteen elected directors. From the 2028 election that becomes five elected seats. The governor appoints four more members, who need Senate approval. Directors face a two-term, eight-year limit. The district must also pay for an outside study of its service for disabled riders by mid-2027. The Colorado House passed it 39-26 and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1302. The state bureau had to keep its gun background check desk open at least 12 hours a day. The act drops that number and lets the bureau set hours that match demand. The reason given is the three-day wait added in 2023. Requests can still be filed every day but Thanksgiving and Christmas, and go into the queue at once. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1192. The homeless prevention program was steered by a three-person advisory committee. The act removes that committee. The state housing division now runs the program and sets and enforces its standards itself. The money must still go to nonprofit agencies for direct help to clients. The Colorado House passed it 45-17 and the governor signed it into law.

March 9, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1295 and pass it. A food truck has to get a fire safety permit from each local government it works in. The act makes a local government accept a permit issued elsewhere in Colorado when the conditions it names are met. The state fire prevention division has to write fire safety standards for local governments to use. Operators can show their permit through reasonable electronic means. The Colorado House voted 48-16 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 2. The act makes every investor-owned gas and electric utility run a percentage-of-income payment plan. A household on a low income pays a set share of its income, between two and six percent. The rest of the bill turns into a credit. A late or part payment cannot on its own throw a household out of the plan. The act also delays new pollution limits on propane and mobile home furnaces and water heaters until 2031. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1004. Colorado gives back half of what a person or business donates to a child care center. That credit was due to end after the 2027 tax year. The act runs it to the end of 2037. The findings say about 18,000 people used it in 2022 and it raised $60 million for providers. The Colorado House passed it 51-13 and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1010 and pass it. The act lets the governor declare an emergency when a market or trade disruption hits necessities. During such an emergency, raising a price too far counts as price gouging. The act sets the threshold as a rise of more than a stated share above the earlier price. A seller is not gouging if it can show the higher price reflects its own increased costs. Price gouging is an unfair or unconscionable act under consumer protection law. The Colorado House voted 38-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 4. The act sets rules for the fees child care programs charge families. A family that pays an application, deposit or wait list fee and is not enrolled within six months can ask in writing for the money back. The program keeps only a fair charge for the paperwork. A family that turns down a spot it was offered does not get the refund. A deposit that holds a spot must count toward tuition. Programs must give families the fee list and the refund rules when they join a wait list, sign up or enroll. A program found breaking the rules has 30 days to fix that before the state can act against its license. The Colorado House passed it 38-22 and the governor signed it into law.

March 13, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 4, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1276 and pass it. The act adds state oversight of places that hold people for immigration cases. A county or district public health agency may inspect or examine such a facility. The state health department gets matching powers and a fund for the work. The act also frees users of Colorado's court e-filing system from a records certification rule. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 5. Immigration officers are hard to sue when they break a person's rights. The bill would have let a person sue in state court over rights broken during civil immigration work. A winning claimant would have had their legal costs paid. It would have stripped immunity defenses as far as federal law allows. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

May 7, 2026Supports Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1283 and pass it. Some workers are asked to hand over a government ID card and do not get it back. The act bars an employer from demanding or keeping a worker's ID card. An employer may hold it only long enough to check work eligibility and copy it, and never more than 10 hours. The employer has to explain the rule in writing, in the worker's own language where the employer knows it. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 276. The act limits how Colorado governments deal with federal immigration enforcement. From July 1, 2025, public schools, colleges, child care centers, health sites and libraries cannot ask where a person was born. They also cannot ask a person's immigration status. They can ask when a law requires it, when the job needs it, or to check if someone qualifies for a funded program. Once bond is processed, a jail cannot keep holding someone at the request of immigration agents. Doing so counts as a new arrest with no warrant. An officer cannot ask a member of the public to help make such an arrest. Probation and pretrial staff cannot hand personal details to federal immigration agents. Another state's troops cannot enter Colorado without the governor saying yes, unless federal orders send them. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 3, 2025Supports Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1244. Colorado runs a grant program paying community organizations to help migrants find state services. The act widens who those grants can serve. It drops the rule that a migrant must have arrived within the past year. The services cover guiding people to state help in their own language. The Colorado House passed it 41-23 and the governor signed it into law.

March 31, 2025Supports Immigration

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Sponsored SB26-158; the governor signed early-parole procedures for qualifying youthful offenders on May 19, 2026.

May 19, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1255 and pass it. Police serving a search warrant on a social media company can wait for an answer. The bill would have made a platform with a million monthly users staff a hotline at all times. It would have had to confirm a warrant within set time limits. It would also have had to tell local police within 24 hours whenever it acted against a user. Content that counts as protected health care would have been left out. The Colorado House voted 35-30 to accept those changes and pass the bill, but the governor vetoed it.

May 13, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 152. Colorado towns use cameras to catch speeding and red-light running. The act defines a mobile camera as one that can be moved between sites and fitted in a vehicle. A camera on a trailer counts as mobile only if it moves within 72 hours or sits in a work or school zone. The act also states these systems do not include license plate readers. The Colorado House passed it 51-14 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1138. Theft rings hit stores across several towns, so no single force sees the whole picture. The act sets up a board and a grant fund for retail theft inside the state's criminal justice division. Police, district attorneys and joint task forces can apply for the money. It aims at theft of $2,000 or more and at gift card fraud. The model is the one Colorado used to bring down car theft. The Colorado House passed it 50-14 and the governor signed it into law.

May 11, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1318 and pass it. A school zone doubles traffic fines but Colorado never fixed its size. The act sets a school zone as every road within 1,000 feet of school grounds. State highways are in only if the transport department agrees. A local government may shrink a zone, but never below 200 feet, and signs must say the penalties double. The Colorado House voted 46-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1312 and pass it. Police recruits in Colorado train under academy rules set by a state board. The act tells the attorney general to send that board a plan to update academy training by the end of 2030. If the board says no, another plan is due within a year. The board itself grows from 24 to 28 members. The Colorado House voted 47-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1281. Causing one death through extreme indifference is first degree murder in Colorado. The bill would have narrowed that charge to cases where more than one person died. It would also have kept it for the death of a child under 12, of an on-duty responder, or of one person with two more badly hurt by a weapon. A single death by extreme indifference would have dropped to second degree murder. The bill would also have created aggravated vehicular homicide for repeat or fleeing drivers. The Colorado House voted 33-32 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Sponsored HB26-1039; the governor signed municipal-jail oversight requirements on April 27, 2026.

April 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 104. Firefighters and police forcing a school door waste time in an emergency. By July 2030 every Colorado school must fit at least one outside key box. The box has to meet a national safety standard and hold keys or access cards for the local police. Home schools are not covered. The Colorado House passed it 42-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 16, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Sponsored HB26-1185; the governor signed continuation of the cold-case task force on April 13, 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1127 and pass it. Colorado tracks how many road deaths involve drink or drugs. Coroners used to send a monthly written report of every crash death. The act replaces that with an electronic report each quarter, sent when the transport department asks. It must carry blood alcohol readings and drug screen results for everyone who died. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 14. A person found not guilty by reason of insanity is committed for treatment rather than punished. At a hearing to end that commitment for good, the act puts the burden on the defendant. If evidence is raised that they do not qualify, they must show they do. A court that finds them not ready keeps them on conditional release and tells the district attorney. The Colorado House passed it 44-19 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1064 and pass it. The youthful offender system is a separate prison track for younger people. The act rewrites what it is for, putting treatment and a safe return to the community first. Everyone in it now gets an assessment, a written plan, and a case manager who meets them each month. The act also says people with disabilities must be treated the same at sentencing. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1071. Colorado limits where a speed or red light camera ticket may be issued. The list covers school zones, residential streets, work zones and streets by a park. The bill would have added stretches of state highway that a local government designates. The existing conditions on camera use would have stayed. The Colorado House voted 37-22 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

February 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1098 and pass it. The act sets up an automated system to tell people about protection orders that protect them. The criminal justice division builds it, subject to money being available. It tells a protected person and their family the date of an order and what it covers. The information has to be given out in the ways the act sets. The Colorado House voted 43-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1013 and pass it. The act gives people held in state prisons a right to social visits. Visits include in-person contact and non-contact visits, family time, phone calls and video calls. Visits from a lawyer or a health worker are not counted as social visits. The prison cannot take visits away because a person is in restrictive housing or has lost privileges. It also cannot turn away a visitor when the person agrees to the visit and both follow prison rules. The act does allow limits, such as capping contact visits for someone in restrictive housing at 30 days in a row. The Colorado House voted 43-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 190. The act changes how people leave custody. A sheriff can let someone who has posted bail stay in jail overnight so staff can link them to services. More people can help an inmate seek special needs parole, including a public defender liaison. When a licensed provider records that an inmate has a serious impairment or severe memory and thinking problems, the prison has to refer them to the parole board. The prison cannot set that referral aside, and the provider is not liable for the finding. The act also tightens bail paperwork, so whoever pays gets the bond papers, a written notice and the next court date. The Colorado House passed it 44-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Sponsored a bill setting felony levels for attempted murder showing extreme indifference to life and repealing a related first-degree assault charge. A House committee killed it (House Bill 25-1206).

April 30, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1049. A person in custody already has the right to talk to their lawyer. The act says they also have the right to hear from that lawyer, including a lawyer the court appointed. That covers meetings at the jail or prison, phone calls, and video calls where they exist. A staff member working for the lawyer can take part, and police can check that person is authorized first. The talks stay private. The Colorado House passed it 44-17 and the governor signed it into law.

April 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 31. The act changes how emergency alerts reach people. From July 1, 2027 an alerting authority has to send alerts in the minority languages spoken widely in the area. Alerts still have to go out as fast as possible and follow federal rules. State grants can help counties and towns cover the cost. The Colorado House passed it 47-17 and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 62. A city court can no longer make failing to show up in court a crime of its own. That holds even in home rule cities, which usually set their own court rules. The ban covers any other name a city gives the same thing. A judge can still issue a bench warrant when someone misses a court date. The Colorado House passed it 40-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1294. Colorado bars courts from charging most costs and fees to people who broke the law as juveniles. It also bars charging their parent or guardian. That protection was set to expire on June 30, 2025. The act repeals the expiry date, so the protection stays in place. The Colorado House passed it 41-23 and the governor signed it into law.

March 31, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1114 and pass it. The defense in a criminal case gets the right to look at physical evidence the police hold. Police have to allow it as soon as they can, and at least 35 days before trial. A police officer stays present to record who handled the evidence. While inspecting it, the defense must be able to talk privately and take private notes. Material showing the sexual exploitation of a child is left out. The Colorado House voted 40-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 10, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1148. The act reworks the protection orders a court issues against someone facing criminal charges. The order has to be on a standard form that names the people, animals and places it covers. The protected people get a copy. Breaking such an order is already a crime, and the act adds a new way to break one. That is drinking alcohol or using controlled substances when the order forbids it. A court can change or lift an order in the cases the act sets out. The Colorado House passed it 39-23 and the governor signed it into law.

March 5, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1065 and pass it. Most Colorado transit stations have too few homes near them to fill the trains and buses. The act maps zones within two miles of a station. Inside a zone the state may put the growth in its own sales tax back into sidewalks, crossings and other works near the station. That can run for up to 30 years. The act also adds a tax credit of up to $8.3 million a year for cheaper homes built in those zones. The Colorado House voted 44-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 155. Hail, wind and wildfire have pushed up home insurance and driven insurers out of Colorado. The act sets up a state body to pay grants for making homes stand up to that weather. It is paid for by a yearly fee on insurers worth half a percent of home premiums. The insurer must swallow the fee and cannot pass it to customers. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 177. Fixing your own wall sometimes means standing on the neighbor's land. If the neighbor says no, or ignores a certified letter for 60 days, the act lets the owner ask a district court for access. It applies to single-family homes, including row houses sharing a wall. The court decides the terms. The Colorado House passed it 43-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1015. Colorado gives a tax credit worth a quarter of what a person or business donates to approved homelessness charities. The credit was due to end after the 2026 tax year. The act runs it through the 2030 tax year. The findings say the first year drew 8,320 donations worth about $20.5 million. The Colorado House passed it 47-16 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1206. Colorado is short roughly 106,000 homes, and 134,000 of them for the poorest renters. The bill would have let a public housing authority put a sales tax to its own voters. The money would have gone to building deeply affordable housing. The tax would have needed a majority at a general or coordinated election. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 28, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1196. People applying to rent often do not know what a landlord will look up about them. From 2027 every rental application must say what data the landlord will pull. It must also list what is weighed, such as credit, rental history, income and any criminal record. If a screening company is used, it must be named. In eviction filings a landlord must black out social security, bank and card numbers. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 40. Colorado's affordable housing fund helps first-time buyers with a down payment. The act widens who can be helped. The housing payment may now take up to 38 percent of monthly income, up from 35. Land banking may support homes for buyers earning up to 120 percent of the area's middle income. Tribal governments may set their own limits without handing over private data. The Colorado House passed it 44-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1224. Mobile home residents own the home but rent the ground under it. A landlord may now end a tenancy for breaking a local rule only after a government has ruled that it happened. Where rent rises are barred for a time, the landlord must tell residents within 14 days and say why. Parks where the landlord owns all the homes are now covered too. The Colorado House passed it 40-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 16, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1120 and pass it. When mobile home taxes go unpaid, the county used to seize and sell the home itself. From July 2026 the county sells a tax lien instead, the way it does for a house. The owner gets at least 60 days' warning and then a year to pay up, longer where the county holds the lien. Notices must be written in English and Spanish and say where to get an interpreter. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1300. A health service district provides local medical care under an approved service plan. The bill would have let one add or drop affordable housing services without that counting as a major change to the plan. A majority of the district board would have had to vote for it. The work would have had to be done alongside local housing authorities and agencies. The Colorado House voted 43-20 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 2, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 53. The state housing authority buys home loans so lenders will make them. Those loans had to go to low or moderate income families. The act adds families of first responders earning up to 110 percent of the usual limit. First responder means a police officer, firefighter or paramedic. The list also reaches dispatchers, corrections officers and wildlife officers. The Colorado House passed it 51-13 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1308. Splitting one house lot into two is usually a slow discretionary decision. From the end of 2027 the bill would have made larger jurisdictions approve a split administratively where set conditions were met. Neither new lot could be under 1,200 square feet, and the smaller had to be at least 30 percent of the original. A lot could only have been split once, and both new lots had to have access and utilities. The Colorado House voted 39-26 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

March 24, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1001 and pass it. Some Colorado land is owned by school districts, colleges, housing authorities, transit districts and nonprofits that build affordable homes. From the end of 2027 the act makes towns over 2,000 people allow homes on those lots, up to five acres. A town cannot say no on height grounds if the tallest building is three stories or 38 feet. It can still say no where the fire service cannot reach three stories, or in a historic district. The Colorado House voted 40-24 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1013 and pass it. Some landlords split one utility bill among tenants by a formula rather than by meter. The act allows that, but only under four rules. The total billed cannot beat the utility's own bill and no markup may be added. Common areas must be left out, and the method must be written into the lease. Buildings permitted from July 2027 need a real meter or submeter for each home. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 12, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1202. Colorado has no single plan for preventing and ending homelessness. The act makes the local affairs department present one in January 2027. The plan must name the gaps in help, list state housing and how fully it is used, and suggest funding. The act also lets nearby local governments set up a joint body to tackle homelessness. The Colorado House passed it 38-23 and the governor signed it into law.

March 9, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1099. A homeowners association inherits the upkeep of shared roofs, roads and pools from the builder. Before handing control over, a builder must now pay for a reserve study looking 30 years ahead. It has to price keeping, fixing and replacing everything the association will own. The study must be done by someone with no business tie to the builder. The Colorado House passed it 39-26 and the governor signed it into law.

February 26, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1114. Local rules on minimum lot size can make a small starter home impossible to build. From October 2031 the bill would have stopped larger jurisdictions demanding more than 2,000 square feet for a single family home. It would also have blocked frontage, setback and coverage rules that had the same effect. Exempt lots would have stayed outside it. The Colorado House voted 38-26 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

February 25, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1273 and pass it. Colorado building codes follow a national model that makes any building over three stories have two stairways. That rule shapes what can be built on a small lot. By December 1, 2027, a city of 100,000 or more with an accredited fire service has to allow buildings up to five stories with a single stairway. The building has to meet safety conditions the act sets out. Cities must hold meetings and give notice before adopting the change. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1249 and pass it. The act tightens the rules on rental security deposits. A landlord must return the deposit within 30 days, or up to 60 days if the lease says so. When a tenant asks in writing, the landlord must hand over the photos, receipts or estimates behind any money kept. A landlord cannot keep money for normal wear and tear, or for damage that was there before the tenant moved in. A landlord also cannot charge to replace all the carpet or repaint the whole home unless the damage is severe. Either side can ask for a walk-through check before the tenant moves out. A landlord who keeps money wrongly owes three times that amount plus the tenant's legal costs, and must prove in court that the amount was fair. The tenant has to demand the money and give seven days' notice before suing. The Colorado House voted 34-31 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 4, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 313. Proposition 123 sends state money to affordable housing. The act tightens how that money can be used. The housing division and the local government division each spend from the fund only for the purposes the act names. Money not spent stays in the fund rather than going elsewhere. The Colorado House passed it 43-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1004 and pass it. Some landlords set rents with software that draws on price data from other landlords. The bill would have banned selling that software for competing landlords in one market to use. It would also have banned using it to take part in a scheme to fix rent or occupancy. A breach would have counted as an illegal restraint of trade under the state antitrust law, and the bill would have made such a claim easier to plead in court. A free tool built only on public data would have been left out. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor vetoed it.

May 1, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 20. The act puts the attorney general behind Colorado's tenant laws. The office can enforce the rules protecting survivors of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault, and the rules on rental agreements. It can see eviction court records that are otherwise hidden, but only to investigate. A court can appoint a receiver to run a large rental property that keeps breaking the habitability rules. That receiver has to maintain the property and cannot raise rents or fees above what tenants paid when the court stepped in. The receiver also cannot evict anyone over rent that went unpaid before it took over. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 2. Factory-built homes are made in a plant and put together on site. They cost less than homes built start to finish on site. The act tells the State Housing Board to develop regional building codes for them. An advisory committee has to write the standards and a plan for putting them in place. It has to report to lawmakers during the 2026 session. The aim is one set of rules across a region instead of a different code in each town. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1043 and pass it. The act tightens what a homeowners association must do before taking money from an owner. It has to follow its own bylaws and state law first. If it has not, a court can pause the case until it does. The association cannot keep adding charges during that pause. Associations also have to report more about their enforcement and foreclosures. The state publishes a summary each year. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 15, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1211 and pass it. Water and sanitation districts charge a tap fee to connect a new home to the system. The act says that fee has to be reasonably related to the cost of providing service. That cost covers building the infrastructure, planning for water rights and running the system. A district can set a smaller fee for a home that uses less water, and can charge more later if demand goes up. The Colorado House voted 44-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 15, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1168 and pass it. The act widens housing protections for survivors of domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault. A tenant cannot be evicted for a lease breach caused by that abuse. A lease cannot contain terms that punish a survivor for it. When either side tells the court, the court has to lift an eviction order that rests on such a breach. A survivor can arrange to pay what is owed on terms they set within limits the act provides. The Colorado House voted 41-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1240 and pass it. The act bars a landlord from turning someone away because they pay with a housing voucher or other subsidy. A landlord cannot make the tenant pay costs the landlord runs up if the tenant loses that subsidy. A landlord cannot start an eviction for unpaid rent until 30 days after giving notice to leave. The act also tells the state to gather and publish help for landlords and tenants. The Colorado House voted 39-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 6. The act lets the state treasurer invest up to $50 million in bonds issued by quasi-governmental agencies. The money has to finance affordable, income-limited homes that are for sale, not for rent. It is meant for homes that would not otherwise be built on those terms. An investment can run for up to 45 years, and the treasurer reinvests the money that comes back. The Colorado House passed it 42-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1169. The bill would have made local governments of more than 2,000 people allow homes on land owned by faith groups and schools. From the end of 2026 those projects would have gone through a simple administrative approval. A city could not have refused a project on height grounds if it was no more than three stories or 45 feet. It also could not have applied rules stricter than the ones it uses for similar housing elsewhere in the same place. The Colorado House passed it 40-23, but the Senate put off its second reading again and again until the session ended.

March 17, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1093 and pass it. Colorado law already bars local rules that cap how many people or new homes a town allows each year. The act widens that ban. In urban areas a local rule may not cut the housing density or the housing uses allowed on land below what its zoning allowed on July 1, 2025. The ban reaches only rules that say so outright, and the act limits the older ban to rules that apply across the board. It can do that only by making room for the same amount somewhere else in town. Land holding or next to a wildlife crossing is left out. A town can also ask a court whether a land use measure put forward by voters is legal before it goes on the ballot. Land owners and the measure's backers can join that case, and the election clock stops while it runs. The Colorado House voted 47-16 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 17, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1010 and pass it. The state workforce council plans job training and hiring programs. The act says at least one of the governor's picks must be 55 or older and speak for older workers. From 2027 the council has to meet the state aging commission twice a year. It must also gather data on how older adults do at work and report on it. The Colorado House voted 46-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1314. Children removed from home do better with relatives than with strangers. The act makes counties write down the effort they make to find and use kin. It also keeps a grandparent's right to ask for family time after the child's parent dies. Before, that death could end the right. The Colorado House passed it 46-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 25B-003. In November 2025 Colorado voters were asked to raise taxes on high earners to pay for free school meals. The act rewrites that ballot question. The money can now also go to food aid, the program known as SNAP. What is left after school meals can pay to run SNAP, help people apply, and teach about food. Lawmakers acted after a federal budget law cut SNAP and pushed costs onto the states. The Colorado House passed it 44-17 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 24, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 6, 2026

Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1154 and pass it. The act reorganizes state services for people who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing or deafblind. It also covers people who cannot read standard print. It folds existing programs into a single state enterprise. The enterprise runs the services and has its own funding, so it is not paid for out of general taxes. The old commission's name in statute is replaced by the enterprise. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1097 and pass it. The act covers children who have to move between foster or kinship placements. A county caseworker has to write an individual transition plan before the move, except in an emergency. The plan has to put the child's mental, emotional and physical needs first. The caseworker has to seek the views of the child and the people caring for them. The Colorado House voted 44-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 8. Colorado's Necessary Document Program helps people get papers such as a birth certificate or a state identity card. From July 1, 2027 the health department can no longer hire an outside vendor to run it. A person who qualifies can get those documents at no cost at taking-part agencies. The health department and the revenue department have to work together to make that happen. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1159. The act carries out what Colorado's child support commission recommended. The low-income adjustment now follows the state minimum wage instead of a fixed monthly figure. A parent with little income keeps enough to support themselves before support is figured. The act also changes when a court has to use potential income rather than actual earnings. The Colorado House passed it 51-14 and the governor signed it into law.

April 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 144. Colorado's paid family and medical leave program lets workers take paid time off for family or health reasons. A parent whose newborn is in intensive care can now take up to 12 more weeks of leave. The premium that funds the program is set at 0.88 percent of wages. The director then sets the rate each year, keeping the fund solvent and the rate steady. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1188. The act rewrites Colorado's rules on reporting child abuse and neglect. A report cannot rest on a family being poor, unhoused, disabled, or on their race or ethnicity. A person who has to report cannot pass that duty to someone else. Organizations have to set protocols that follow state law, and cannot discourage staff from reporting. The Colorado House passed it 43-19 and the governor signed it into law.

April 17, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1234 and pass it. The act protects people applying for help with utility bills. The state cannot make an applicant give a social security number. It cannot share an applicant's information beyond what running the program needs. When paperwork is missing, the state has to give the applicant a chance to fix it rather than deny the claim outright. The Colorado House voted 41-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 208. Colorado had promised to make prison phone calls free to prisoners and their families by July 1, 2025. The act delays that by a year. The prison system covers 75 percent of the cost through June 2026, and all of it from July 1, 2026. Video calls, email and messaging are not covered either way. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 10, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1018 and pass it. The act widens who can get state vocational rehabilitation services, which help people with disabilities find and keep work. It removes the rule that an applicant has to be in Colorado when applying. It also removes the screen that asked whether the state judged the person able to achieve rehabilitation. People no longer have to pay toward the cost based on a state test of what they can afford. Nor does a relative who claims them as a dependent. The state can weigh what a person can pay only when money runs short and it has to manage a waiting list. Before it does that, it has to ask people with disabilities, community groups and the public. The Colorado House voted 45-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1132. The act replaces the state's veterans mental health program with a military family behavioral health grant program. It pays health professionals who treat veterans and their families. It also covers care that goes alongside mental health treatment, such as acupuncture and massage. The military and veterans affairs division runs the reimbursements. The Colorado House passed it 41-20 and the governor signed it into law.

March 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 5, 2026

Was a prime sponsor (lead author) of a Colorado law adding two nonvoting student members to the state higher education commission, one from a four-year university and one from a community or technical college (House Bill 26-1029). The governor signed it on June 2, 2026.

June 2, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: leg.colorado.gov · researched August 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1345 and pass it. Colorado shares state money among its public colleges by formula. The act adds co-located degree partnerships, where a student stays on their own campus while enrolled at a partner college that offers the degree. That lets rural campuses keep the students and the funding. The act follows the recommendations of the state's funding formula report. The Colorado House voted 51-13 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1016 and pass it. Open educational resources are course materials students get free. The state's yearly report on them was due to stop after 2026. The act keeps it running to the end of 2031. The report must now count courses that cost students nothing for textbooks, not just those using open materials. The Colorado House voted 49-15 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 103. A community school ties a school to health clinics, legal help and family services. Colorado law offered that mainly as a last resort after a school was already failing. By July 2027 every district, charter and school board must adopt and publish a written policy sending help to at-risk students. The policy may set up ties with community groups. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1028 and pass it. A seal of biliteracy on a diploma shows a graduate can use English and another language. Only 55 of Colorado's 179 school districts offered it. The act widens how a student can show the skill, through class work, tests or other proof. It also adds a second, lower seal for speaking and listening alone. The Colorado House voted 47-17 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass Senate Bill 20. Child care licensing checks in Colorado were often done by outside contractors. From July 2026 the state must start phasing that out where it can. It has to rely on its own licensing specialists instead. Licensed facilities must also keep staff records current in the state's professional development system. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1006 and pass it. Some Colorado colleges serve mostly rural, low-income or first-generation students. The act lets the state name such a college a thriving institution when it does well by those students. An advisory group helps the state set what doing well means. One of the measures is how much graduates go on to earn. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 7, 2026

Voted to pass House Bill 1321. Colorado pays nonprofits to train schools in responding to a safety incident. The bill would have limited that money to Colorado-based nonprofits. It would have widened the work to cover violence prevention and behavioral health. Applicants would also have been able to name local police as the partner, not only other first responders. The Colorado House voted 42-21 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 19. Early childhood councils plan child care and family services in each part of the state. The act scraps the old rules and rebuilds the councils as one statewide system. From July 2026 each council works to a plan agreed with the state. Both the plan and the measures used to judge it are reviewed each year. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1259 and pass it. The act makes several changes to Colorado's early childhood programs. Preschool providers and the state must keep child records private. They cannot hand out data that would name a child. The state education fund may pay for universal preschool, and a tribal-licensed child care home no longer needs a state license too. The Colorado House voted 44-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass House Bill 1193. Colorado schools test children's sight and hearing in set grades. The list started at kindergarten. The act adds pre-kindergarten to the grades where sight is tested. A parent can still opt out on religious or personal grounds. The Colorado House passed it 40-22 and the governor signed it into law.

March 27, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1149 and pass it. The act adds Black history and culture to what Colorado schools teach. The State Board of Education has to build standards for it at the next review of state standards. A 17-member advisory committee of teachers, scholars and community members guides the work, unpaid. Schools then have to teach the content those standards set. The Colorado House voted 45-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 154. The act changes how someone qualifies to teach in Colorado. The State Board of Education sets the coursework standards for a teaching license area. A candidate can now meet them in more than one way. A college taking part in the teacher recruitment program has to charge no more than the community college tuition rate. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 17, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1248 and pass it. The act gives public schools their own rules on restraint and seclusion. They had been under the general state law that covers other agencies. Restraint means holding a student still; seclusion means shutting a student alone in a room. The act bars using them except in the narrow cases it names. A seclusion room cannot be a storage space or another room not meant for it. Schools have to follow set steps when a student has to be moved. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 15, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass House Bill 1158. Schools buy digital research collections for students to use. The bill would have made a contract signed or renewed from July 2026 treat targeted ads, other banned ads and embedded links as a broken contract. The vendor would have had 30 days after notice to take them out. From the 2026-27 school year schools would have had to tell parents each year that these collections must be free of them. The measure failed in the Colorado House 31-33, and the bill died there.

April 14, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 63. The act tells school districts and charter schools how to decide what is in a school library. Each has to adopt a written policy for choosing, keeping and displaying library material. Each also has to adopt a written policy for reconsidering material someone objects to. The policies have to protect against harassment and discrimination. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1144 and pass it. The act makes it a crime to knowingly 3-D print or mill a working gun or gun part. A first offense is a misdemeanor. A second is a felony. The parts covered are unfinished frames, large-capacity magazines and rapid-fire devices. Licensed makers and gunsmithing classes are exempt, and props and non-working items are not covered. The Colorado House voted 40-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 4. An extreme risk protection order takes guns from someone a court finds dangerous. Only certain people could ask for one. The act adds crisis workers who met the person in the past six months. It widens who counts as a teacher to cover community and technical colleges. It also lets the school, hospital or treatment center that employs those people ask on its own behalf. The Colorado House passed it 39-24 and the governor signed it into law.

March 20, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 1126. Colorado makes firearms dealers hold a state permit to sell guns here. The act says a dealer now needs that permit to move firearms into or out of the state as well. It also sets out who counts as an employee, covering unpaid helpers and contractors who can reach the guns. Someone with no way to unlock the store's gun storage is left out. The Colorado House passed it 34-28 and the governor signed it into law.

March 20, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 1265. Guns used in crimes often cross city and state lines before police find them. By September 2026 every Colorado police force must join the federal gun tracing system and share its data. When a force takes in a gun it has 90 days to send the details to the national tracing center. A force already covered through another agency or the state patrol is left out. The Colorado House passed it 39-23 and the governor signed it into law.

March 9, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 34. The act creates the Colorado Voluntary Do-Not-Sell Act. A person can file a waiver giving up their own right to buy a firearm. The state bureau of investigation has to build an online portal to file, update contacts or cancel the waiver, and has to check the filer's identity. While the waiver stands, a firearm transfer to that person is denied. The bureau tells the person and the contacts they named when a waiver is accepted or cancelled. Lawmakers pointed to suicide: 717 Coloradans died by self-inflicted gunshot in 2023, seven in ten of the state's firearm deaths. The Colorado House passed it 36-28 and the governor signed it into law.

May 5, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 158. The act sets rules for how the state buys firearms, ammunition and accessories. A contractor selling them to the state has to be licensed. The contractor has to tell the state about federal gun-trace requests it has received. The state gives a bidding preference to contractors that meet the new standards. The Colorado House passed it 39-24 and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 205. A licensed gun dealer can ask police to check a firearm's serial number before buying it from a private person. The dealer asks the city police where the shop sits, or the county sheriff otherwise. Police have to set up a system for those checks by July 1, 2026 and answer within three days. A dealer who does not report as required faces a penalty. The Colorado House passed it 36-27 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1238 and pass it. The act rewrites the rules for gun shows. A promoter has to prepare a security plan and give it to each local law enforcement agency before the show. The promoter has to carry liability insurance. Background check rules for sales at the show stay in place. Events that show only antique, curio or relic firearms are not treated as gun shows. The rules start on January 1, 2026. The Colorado House voted 35-28 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 28, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1133 and pass it. The act sets rules for stores that sell ammunition. Ammunition must be kept where a customer cannot reach it without a worker's help. Stores cannot sell it to anyone under 21, and must check a government photo ID. People aged 18 to 20 can still buy it if they serve or served in the military, finished a hunter education course, are named as protected in a protection order, or are buying at a shooting range to use there. People born on or before January 28, 2007 are also exempt from the age limit, for both store sales and deliveries. Rimfire ammunition is not covered. Anyone delivering ammunition must check the recipient's age with a photo ID and get a signature. A first violation is a civil fine and a later one is a misdemeanor, and the rules start July 1, 2026. The Colorado House voted 38-25 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 28, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 3. From August 1, 2026 it is a crime to make, sell, give away or buy most semiautomatic rifles and shotguns that take a detachable magazine. The ban also covers gas-operated semiautomatic handguns that take one. A person can still buy one after passing a firearms safety course and getting a card from the sheriff, which the sheriff can refuse or take back. Guns left out include .22 rimfire guns, guns loaded by hand, and guns with a built-in magazine that holds 15 rounds or fewer. The act also lists about 35 older models that are left out, and exempts police, the military, gunsmiths and museums. A first offense is a misdemeanor and a later one is a felony. A device that speeds up how fast a semiautomatic gun fires now counts as a dangerous weapon. The Colorado House passed it 36-28 and the governor signed it into law.

March 24, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 1250. Colorado's Office of Gun Violence Prevention already develops material on preventing gun violence. The act makes the office post that material online for schools to hand to parents and guardians. Schools can then pass it to families of elementary and secondary students. The department has to report each January on how the material is used. The Colorado House passed it 43-21 and the governor signed it into law.

March 19, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 1335. Colorado colleges that run a student health center must give students access to abortion medication. The rule starts in August 2027. A center with no pharmacy on site can write a prescription to fill elsewhere, or have its own staff hand out the drug. If another state asks for a student's records in order to punish that care, the college must refuse unless federal law or a Colorado court order requires it. The Colorado House passed it 41-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 27, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 25B-002. A federal law passed in July 2025 blocks Medicaid money from clinics that also do abortions. In Colorado that mainly means Planned Parenthood. The act tells the state to pay those clinics with state money instead. It covers Medicaid care given on or after July 1, 2025, such as exams, screening, birth control and infection care. It applies only when federal money cannot be used. Abortion care is left out, because Colorado already pays for that on its own. The Colorado House passed it 43-19 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 24, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1259 and pass it. The act writes a right to fertility care into state law. It covers in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and the storing, donating and testing of eggs, sperm and embryos. Every person has the right to decide about their own reproductive health care. That includes using, donating or destroying eggs and embryos. State and local government cannot restrict a doctor's ability to provide that care. Colorado will not help another state bring a case over that care or an abortion. The act also changes what sperm and egg banks must collect, disclose and give in writing to donors and parents. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 130. The act writes emergency care duties into state law. They track the federal rules hospitals already follow. A place must examine anyone who asks for emergency care, or who plainly looks like they need it. It must then treat the person until they are stable. It cannot hold up care to ask how the patient will pay. Emergency care includes an abortion or a sterilization when that is what makes the patient stable. A facility can move or send home a patient who is not stable only under set conditions. Those are the patient's written request, or a doctor's signed statement that the benefits outweigh the risks. Another hospital must also have agreed to take the patient. A facility cannot punish staff who refuse an unsafe transfer, and it counts as a public place that may not discriminate. The state can investigate a facility, and a doctor who breaks the rules commits unprofessional conduct. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 3, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 129. The act strengthens Colorado's shield for care that is legal here. That includes abortion and gender-affirming care. A pharmacy label for abortion pills can name the clinic instead of the doctor. The clinic has to be named on the prescription. Its arrest and handover rules now say Colorado will not help another state punish that care. Public agencies and their staff are barred from helping such an investigation. The state health department cannot gather certain information about that care. Each unauthorized collection can be stopped by a court and carries a penalty. The attorney general can enforce the new protections. The Colorado House passed it 39-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 6, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 183. Colorado voters removed the state constitution's ban on public money for abortion in 2024. The act updates state law to match. A public employer can no longer refuse abortion coverage by pointing to that old ban. An employer with a sincere religious objection is still excused. The act removes the delay that had held the coverage rule back for individual and small group plans. State health programs must pay for abortion care with state money only. Abortion care now counts as a family planning service, which is covered with no copay or deductible. The Colorado House passed it 40-21 and the governor signed it into law.

April 6, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1084 and pass it. A ballot measure that cuts state tax revenue has to carry a warning in its title. The act softens that wording to say the cut will likely reduce funding, not that it will. It also widens what the ballot booklet's cost statement must cover. Backers who name the programs to be cut still have them printed in the title. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1320 and pass it. The title board writes the question voters see on a ballot measure. The act says a title must use plain words the widest possible audience can follow. The board must avoid titles where the effect of a yes or no vote is unclear. Set wording about tax cuts may now sit anywhere in the title, not just at the start. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 4, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1038 and pass it. Bigger Colorado counties elect some commissioners from districts. Those district lines were still drawn by the sitting commissioners, who may run in them. The act moves that job to independent county redistricting commissions. It also spells out what makes a district competitive. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Was a lead sponsor of a bill to let Colorado cities and special districts accept ballots returned electronically through a secure, encrypted system, with each ballot copied onto paper before counting (Senate Bill 26-119). A Senate committee voted 4-0 on March 26, 2026 to kill the bill.

March 26, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass House Bill 1203. Colorado counties over 70,000 people may have three or five commissioners. The bill would have made five the rule, sparing home rule counties that already elect most commissioners by district. Where a board kept three members, all three would have been elected by their own district's voters. The old route between three and five members would have been replaced. The Colorado House voted 35-27 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

March 16, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1327 and pass it. The act changes how a statewide ballot measure gets its title. Proponents cannot flood the title board with repeat drafts on the same subject. The title has to carry a description of the measure's fiscal impact, so voters see the cost on the ballot. The act also fixes when the title board has to meet. The Colorado House voted 42-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1319 and pass it. The act changes how a vacancy on a county board is filled in counties of at least 50,000 people. Today a party vacancy committee picks a replacement who serves until the next general election. Under the act, a vacancy that falls in a set window goes to a vacancy election in the following odd year. The state has to certify the ballot content for it, and committee meetings have to be watchable live. The Colorado House voted 47-14 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1225 and pass it. The act creates the Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act. No one may threaten or scare a person for voting or trying to vote. The same goes for helping someone else vote, or for running an election. People who worked on past elections are covered too. Carrying a visible gun, real or fake, while watching or dealing with those activities counts as scaring people unless the person shows it was not. That rule does not cover on-duty police, or uniformed guards working under a contract at the site. A person who is harmed can sue, and so can an election official, the Secretary of State or the attorney general. A winner gets legal costs. Except where the claim is that someone tried to scare a person, the suit does not turn on proving they meant to. The Colorado House voted 41-24 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1263 and pass it. The act sets rules for chatbots that hold conversations with the public. An operator has to make a reasonable effort to work out whether a user is a child. It then owes extra duties to those users. It also has to publish disclosures and report to the state each year. Shopping assistants, business tools and developer software are left out. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1210 and pass it. Firms can set a different price for each customer using data gathered about them. The bill would have banned setting a price or a wage that way. A firm could still have charged different prices where it showed its own cost differed. Breaking the rule would have counted as a deceptive trade practice. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, but the governor vetoed it.

May 7, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 51. Apps often have no reliable way to tell whether a user is a child. From July 2028 an app store must ask, at account setup, for the age or age range of the person using the device. It then passes that as a signal to apps that ask. Only the least needed may be sent, and it cannot go to anyone else. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Sponsored HB25B-1008, which addressed consumer protections and discrimination in artificial-intelligence interactions; the House later laid it over.

August 25, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Sponsored SB25-143; the governor signed an extension of school facial-recognition restrictions on April 18, 2025.

April 18, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 125. Students with disabilities have leaned on federal law for the right to a suitable free education. The act writes those core protections into Colorado law. It covers how schools find and assess such students and what a district owes them. The stated reason is to hold the rights steady whatever the federal government enforces. The Colorado House passed it 47-18 and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1141 and pass it. Colorado law bars unfair treatment by places open to the public. The act spells out how that applies to schools and colleges. A school breaks it by shutting a student out of a program on protected grounds. It also breaks it by knowing of a hostile setting and failing to act. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1309 and pass it. Family courts decide who a child lives with when parents split up. The act spells out what coercive control means, covering money control, tracking, threats and cutting a person off from family. Where a court finds abuse more likely than not, it cannot order shared decisions over the other parent's objection. It may only do so if it makes specific findings that this is safe. Safety of the child and the abused parent comes first in setting parenting time. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 190. Colorado already makes police release body camera footage of misconduct complaints within 21 days. The act sets a separate track when police use of force kills someone. Once the internal inquiry, the outside investigation and any court case are over, the film of the death goes to the family on request. The force must make real efforts to find that family. Family here means a partner, child, parent, sibling or guardian. The Colorado House passed it 45-20 and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1100 and pass it. An adult under guardianship loses the right to make many of their own decisions. The act writes a bill of rights for them into Colorado law. It covers dignity, privacy, freedom from abuse, staying as independent as possible, and respect for religion and gender identity. It also gives the right to take part in decisions about care, home and daily life. The Colorado House voted 51-13 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 115. Some people in Colorado prisons are old and have served decades. The act lets someone aged 60 or over who has served at least 20 years ask the sentencing court to look again. The window to file runs three years. Sex offenses, human trafficking, life without parole, crimes against a child under 12 and crimes against on-duty responders are all barred. The Colorado House passed it 42-21 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1123 and pass it. The act limits when jail staff may strip search someone. It is allowed at intake, when two staff believe something is hidden, or under a written policy after a past incident. The search must be filmed on a body camera and never on a ceiling camera. Staff need written approval to watch that film, jails must report each year, and a search for revenge is banned. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1322 and pass it. Conversion therapy tries to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. The act sets out that someone harmed by it can sue the licensed therapist for damages, with no time limit. Damages can cover money lost, harm suffered and, where the conduct was willful, extra damages. Supportive or neutral counseling that does not push a set outcome is not covered. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 48. Colorado lets a 16 or 17 year old marry with a juvenile court's approval. There is no limit on how much older the other party may be. The bill would have barred the court approving a marriage where the age gap is more than ten years. It would have applied to licenses issued after it took effect. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 6, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1043. Ride-hailing drivers must carry a rider's service animal, but some refuse. The act makes the company train every driver on that duty. A driver has six months from joining to finish it or lose use of the app. The company must also write a policy against unfair treatment, give it to drivers, and post it online. The Colorado House passed it 46-18 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 159. Colorado lets inmates cut their sentence by earning time for good behavior. The act raises the monthly cap from 12 days to 14 for most inmates. Those convicted of listed serious crimes, including sexual assault and felony car theft, stay at 12. Achievement time of up to 60 days a milestone is unchanged. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 158. A young offender who finishes a special prison program could ask the governor for early parole. Only the governor could grant it. The act lets the state parole board grant it too. The board must still weigh victim statements and find that release fits public safety. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 30, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored HB26-1039; the governor signed municipal-jail oversight requirements on April 27, 2026.

April 27, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1130. A parent with a baby often finds no place to change a diaper in a public building. From January 2028 the bill would have required a changing table on each floor of a building with a public restroom. One in a restroom for each gender, or one in a single or multi-stall unisex restroom, would have satisfied it. Small businesses and certified historic buildings would have been exempt. The Colorado House voted 35-28 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 24, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1143. Clinical placements, internships and volunteer roles often demand a social security number for a background check. People who lawfully do not have one are shut out. The act says a check for a non-work educational chance may not require one. A taxpayer identification number or a name-based or fingerprint check must be accepted instead. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 22, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1227. When the state takes a child into care, a judge decides what happens next. The act confirms the child is a party in their own right, all the way through appeal. If the county asks to drop the case and the child's lawyer objects, the court must hold a hearing. The county then has to show a fair reason, or the case goes on. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 109. Colorado makes bigger housing projects build a share of homes a disabled person can use. The act points the rule at the 2017 national standard instead of an older one. It rewrites what counts as a home and as an accessible floor. It adds a lower tier, the visitable home, worth one point toward a project's score. The Colorado House passed it 41-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1044 and pass it. Some parents report being ignored or badly treated while giving birth. From 2027 a hospital must hand every birthing parent a written notice of what respectful care means. It covers the right to say yes or no, to privacy, and to have someone at your side. It also lists where to complain about unfair treatment, unsafe care or a rights violation. The Colorado House voted 48-15 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 18. A name change petition is a public court record, including the old and new name. From July 2026 the record is sealed when the person filing is under 18. The court may never publish either name online. Someone who filed before that date can ask for their record to be sealed and the court must agree. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1232 and pass it. Colorado stopped charging court fees to children in 2021, but courts kept assessing them. The act says a court cannot charge a time payment fee to a child or their parent. It also bars collecting any court cost ordered against a child since July 2021. Being over 18 by the time of the hearing, or having the case moved to adult court, does not bring the fees back. The Colorado House voted 45-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 13. Colorado's bigamy law made it a crime for a married person to live with someone else. The act removes living together from the offense. Bigamy now means marrying or entering a civil union while already married or in one. The old definition of cohabitation is repealed. The Colorado House passed it 46-19 and the governor signed it into law.

March 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1039. County jails have to meet state standards, but city jails did not. From July 2027 a city jail must meet the same standards and follow the state jail statute. A city jail cannot use restraints on someone it reasonably believes is in labor. It must let a pregnant person held on a city charge go if labor starts, and offer a ride to hospital. The Colorado House passed it 46-16 and the governor signed it into law.

March 3, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1134. Colorado city courts run their own cases and jails. The act makes a city court hold a hearing within 48 hours when someone is held only on a city hold. It confirms a right to a lawyer for defendants who cannot pay for one. It limits flat-fee contracts for those lawyers, unless the fee pays at least the state's hourly rate. The Colorado House passed it 43-19 and the governor signed it into law.

March 3, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1045. A renter with a disability can ask a landlord to allow an assistance animal. Federal guidance on how that works was pulled, leaving both sides guessing. The act writes the old guidance into Colorado law. Saying yes is taken to be reasonable, a blanket ban is taken to be unfair, and the animal's presence alone is not a threat. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

February 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 25B-004. A 2024 Colorado law makes companies that build or use high-risk artificial intelligence guard against bias. They must also tell a person when such a system is deciding about them. Those duties were due to start on February 1, 2026. The act moves every one of those dates to June 30, 2026. It changes nothing else. The Colorado House passed it 48-14 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 26, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1309 and pass it. The act makes state-regulated health plans cover gender-affirming care. A plan cannot deny or limit that coverage. Covered care includes hormone therapy, hair removal, chest surgery, facial procedures and genital surgery. A provider has to find the care medically necessary to treat gender dysphoria. The insurance commissioner writes the rules. The state drug monitoring program has to hide archived testosterone records from view. A state health insurance body can use gifts, grants and private money toward the cost of care the state legally protects. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1312 and pass it. The act is called the Kelly Loving Act. It counts the name a person chooses as part of gender expression under Colorado's law against discrimination. If a school has a policy about student names, that policy must cover every reason a student might use a name other than their legal one. A school dress code must let each student pick from any of its choices. A county clerk must issue a new marriage or civil union license after a name change, without marking it as changed. The act also ends the rule that a person could change the sex on a Colorado birth certificate only once. From October 1, 2026 that change can be made three times on a driver's license or state ID card. The Colorado House voted 40-24 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 50. Government forms that ask a person's race must offer a Middle Eastern, North African or South Asian choice. That is on top of the categories the federal government requires. The rule covers forms that gather data about groups, not about named people. It binds state agencies, colleges and local governments. A government is excused if it must send the data to Washington and the choice would get it rejected. Even then, the choice has to appear as a subcategory on the form. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1239 and pass it. The act merges and widens the remedies in Colorado's anti-discrimination law. Someone who wins a claim about a public place gets a court order to fix it, plus legal fees and costs. They then pick one of two payouts. One is their real losses plus money for harm that is not financial. The other is a flat $5,000 for each violation. Damages for harm that is not financial are capped at $50,000. A defendant who fixes the problem within 30 days pays only half that cap. That discount is not available if the violation was knowing, intentional or reckless. A defendant making a real effort can get up to 120 days. It is also now illegal to retaliate against someone for asking for a disability accommodation. The Colorado House voted 40-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1235. Colorado decides eviction cases without a jury. The bill would have given both the landlord and the tenant a right to a jury trial, except in public housing, where a judge alone would still have decided the case. Someone would have had to try to hand the papers to the tenant in person on two separate days before posting them on the door. It would also have let people take part in a jury trial by video when a disability makes coming to court hard. The Colorado House passed it 33-32, but a Senate committee killed it.

April 30, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1. The act creates the Colorado Voting Rights Act. A city or county may not act in a way that leaves voters of a racial, color or language minority group worse off in registering or voting. It may not run an election system that weakens those voters' power to elect who they want. It may not add voting rules based on gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation, or because a person is held in a local jail. A person who is harmed, or the attorney general, can sue. A warning letter usually comes first, so the local government can fix the problem. The act also has nursing homes post voting information, bans campaigning within 100 feet of a ballot drop box, changes who runs a recount, and has some towns offer ballots in other languages from 2027. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 28, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1147 and pass it. Colorado city courts can jail people for city offenses. The bill would have capped those jail terms at what state law allows for the same conduct. It would have confirmed a right to a lawyer, and given city defense lawyers the same access to their clients and case files as state ones have. It would also have required city court hearings to be open to the public. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor vetoed it.

April 23, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1248 and pass it. The act gives public schools their own rules on restraint and seclusion. They had been under the general state law that covers other agencies. Restraint means holding a student still; seclusion means shutting a student alone in a room. The act bars using them except in the narrow cases it names. A seclusion room cannot be a storage space or another room not meant for it. Schools have to follow set steps when a student has to be moved. The Colorado House voted 41-23 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 15, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 14. The act repeals Colorado's old statute saying a marriage is valid only between one man and one woman. Courts struck that rule down years ago, but it stayed on the books. The act also removes the rule that such a marriage from another state would not count here. It updates the civil union law's statement of purpose to drop the same wording. The Colorado House passed it 45-14 and the governor signed it into law.

March 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 1109. The act says a death certificate must record a person's gender as their gender identity. If someone hands over a document showing that identity, the person filling in the certificate has to follow it. Those papers include a court order, written instructions, a health care directive, or a driver's license. Proof of treatment for a gender transition or a changed birth certificate also counts. Without such a document, the next of kin or the best available source can give the gender. The certificate can record male, female, or X. The Colorado House passed it 38-26 and the governor signed it into law.

March 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored SB26-174; the governor signed a ban on lead-generation marketing for legal services on June 3, 2026.

June 3, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1272 and pass it. Workers who labor in extreme heat or cold can fall ill or die. The act does not set a heat rule employers must follow. It tells the state labor division to gather data from health records, injury claims and a public reporting page. By July 2028 the division must publish a model plan. The plan covers water, rest breaks, training, and easing new workers into the heat. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1424 and pass it. Ride-hailing drivers had to get their own background check once every five years. The act moves that duty to the company and makes it every six months. The check has to cover national, state and county records and the national sex offender list. The act also targets imposter drivers, who drive using someone else's account. The Colorado House voted 43-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 184. A firefighter with cancer has to prove the job caused it. The bill would have flipped that, treating a covered firefighter's cancer as caused by the job. An employer could have argued back only with clear and convincing medical evidence. Smoking, family history or a missed pre-hire medical would not on their own have been enough. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

May 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1273. Ride-hailing companies keep a share of each fare, called the take rate. The bill would have capped that share at 20 percent of the customer fare. The driver would have had to receive at least 80 percent, and all pass-through amounts in full. A company could not have charged the driver a fee that pushed its share past 20 percent. The Colorado House voted 38-26 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 11, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 131. Sports betting apps push alerts to get people betting again. The act bans an online sportsbook from pushing a notice that asks for a bet or a deposit. It also caps deposits at six a day per person. Operators must report odd betting to the sport's governing body at the same time as the state. The Colorado House passed it 50-13 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 93. Some builders carry no injury insurance, leaving hurt workers with nothing. For a building permit on a job over $1 million, the applicant must file a signed statement before work starts. It swears that everyone on the job, including subcontractors, is covered. Anyone may complain to the state if they think the cover is missing. The Colorado House passed it 44-19 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 174. Some marketing firms collect people's legal problems and sell the details to law firms. The act says the caller often sounds like a lawyer but is not one. It makes lead generation marketing for legal services a deceptive trade practice. That opens it to state enforcement and penalties. The Colorado House passed it 51-13 and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1207 and pass it. Large employers already send the federal government a count of staff by race, sex and job type. From July 2027 they must file the same figures with the Colorado secretary of state. The duty covers private firms with 100 or more workers. Government and school employers are left out, and the duty stands even if the federal form goes away. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1054. Colorado has no state workplace safety law of its own and relies on the federal one. The bill would have created a Colorado Worker Safety Act. It would have set a general duty to keep a workplace free of known hazards. That duty would have been read the way federal regulators read theirs in September 2025. Government employers would have been left out. The Colorado House voted 42-23 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

May 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 160. The act stops an employer from taking the cost of safety gear out of a worker's pay. Ordinary clothing, sunscreen and everyday boots are not counted as safety gear. It also bars a meat plant with 500 or more Colorado workers from unfairly refusing a toilet break on paid time. The fine is $100 a worker, capped at $200 a week. The Colorado House passed it 42-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 121. Colorado farm workers get overtime pay only after long hours. From 2027 an agricultural employer must pay the overtime rate after 56 hours in a week. Workers herding livestock on the open range are left out. So are certain salaried year-round managers and family members of the owner. The Colorado House passed it 33-32 and the governor signed it into law.

April 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1135 and pass it. Hair relaxers and hairpieces can carry chemicals linked to cancer or birth defects. From July 2027 a maker cannot sell such a product in Colorado without a clear warning label. The label must be at least 12-point type and name which harm is at issue. Breaking the rule counts as a deceptive trade practice. The Colorado House voted 44-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1011 and pass it. Puppies sold in pet shops often come from large breeding operations. From January 2028 a pet store may not sell, lease, barter or auction a dog or cat. Brokers face the same ban. Shelters and rescues may still show animals for adoption in a shop, so long as the shop takes no fee and the animal is neutered. The Colorado House voted 43-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 47. Colorado firefighters can win collective bargaining rights by a vote of local residents. That vote had to fall at a general election, which limited when it could happen. The act adds coordinated elections to the list. It also fixes the petition threshold to the last regular municipal or district election. The Colorado House passed it 43-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1107. Families choosing a dementia care home have little to compare. The state must build a form by July 2027 that every licensed dementia home has to fill in. It covers staff training, use of restraints, security, and when a resident can be moved out. It also explains how fees work. A home must post the form on its website and show it to inspectors, or be cited. The Colorado House passed it 45-18 and the governor signed it into law.

March 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1005. Colorado is the only state that makes a second vote before workers can agree a union security clause. That vote needs a majority of everyone eligible, or three quarters of those voting. The bill would have scrapped that second election. It would also have rewritten the Labor Peace Act's stated aims around good faith bargaining and fair pay. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

March 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1017. A court can order someone convicted of a crime to repay their victim. Insurers had been claiming through that process for money they paid out on a policy. The act says restitution must go first to the direct victim, and insurers should use other remedies. An insurer that was itself the target of a crime can still claim. The Colorado House passed it 44-20 and the governor signed it into law.

February 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1070. Dentists sign a discount rate with one insurer and find other firms using it too. The act says a third party may reach those agreed discounts only with the dentist's written consent. The consent has to be clear, readily understood and signed. Ticking a box counts as a signature where the law allows it. The Colorado House passed it 48-12 and the governor signed it into law.

February 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 25B-1002. Some corporations move profits to other countries to cut their Colorado tax. The state keeps a list of places it presumes are used that way. The act adds Hong Kong, Ireland, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Singapore to the list. From 2026 it also makes corporations add a federal break for foreign income back into the income Colorado taxes. The state tax chief can now rule on their own that a company is abroad for real business reasons. The Colorado House passed it 43-20 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 25B-1003. Insurers with a home office in Colorado paid a 1 percent tax on the premiums they take in. Other insurers paid 2 percent. The act ends the lower rate in 2026, so every insurer pays 2 percent. The state auditor found that 15 of the 18 insurers taking the break cut about 4,300 Colorado jobs, while their tax saving grew by about $17.5 million. The Colorado House passed it 41-21 in the August 2025 special session, and the governor signed it into law.

August 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1001 and pass it. The act strengthens how Colorado enforces wage and hour law. An employer now includes anyone who owns or controls at least a quarter of a company. A minority owner who hands day-to-day control to someone else is not covered. The act limits what an employer can take out of a worker's pay. It also stops the state waiving a penalty when the employer is a repeat offender. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on House Bill 1300 and pass it. The act changes how an injured worker gets treated under workers' compensation. When a doctor asks to approve care, the employer or insurer has to answer using the state division's treatment standards. The employer or insurer also has to tell the worker in writing, within seven days of hearing about the injury, that the worker can pick the treating doctor. The notice has to say where to find the state's list of accredited doctors. The worker picks from that list, normally within 70 miles of home or work. The limit stretches to 100 miles, or further for good cause, when few accredited doctors nearby will take the case. The Colorado House voted 41-24 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 299. The act sets rules for companies selling home solar and battery systems. A company has to give the customer written disclosures before a purchase or lease. The customer gets a window to cancel without a penalty, apart from a deposit already agreed as non-refundable. A salesperson cannot knock at a home that has posted a no-soliciting sign, or where a local law bars it. A company cannot use the state's name, logo or images to suggest the state backs it. It also cannot buy sales leads that were gathered in ways the act forbids. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 126. Big company mergers have to be reported to federal antitrust regulators. The act makes the same filing go to the Colorado attorney general. That applies when the company is based here, or sells enough here. On request, the company has to hand over the supporting material within seven days. The attorney general cannot charge a fee for the filing, and can share material with other states. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1322. Home insurers already have to send a policyholder a certified copy of their policy within 30 days of a request. The act says the request has to be in writing and go to the carrier's registered agent. A carrier that misses the deadline owes $50 for each day the copy is late. The Colorado House passed it 42-20 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 79. The act regulates the kiosks that sell cryptocurrency for cash. A new customer can spend at most $2,000 a day at a kiosk, and an existing customer $10,500. The kiosk has to show set warnings on screen, including its refund policy. The customer has to confirm they saw them. A first-time customer who is defrauded gets a full refund if police confirm the fraud within the time the act allows. The Colorado House passed it 48-14 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 145. The act makes it easy to get out of a subscription that renews itself. A seller that signed a customer up online has to offer a one-step online cancellation link. One-step means the customer needs no further steps after clicking. The seller can send that link by email or put it where the customer manages the account. The rule also covers trial offers that turn into paid subscriptions. Breaking it is a deceptive trade practice, and the attorney general can write rules. The Colorado House passed it 41-22 and the governor signed it into law.

April 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1117 and pass it. The act regulates companies that boot vehicles. The state utilities commission can refuse, pause or cancel a company's permit when holding one is not in the public interest. Before booting, a company has to photograph the car and the reason for the boot. Not having those photos counts against the company later. A company has to show its name, permit number and phone number on its vehicles. It cannot boot a car another company already booted, and cannot patrol a lot hunting for parking violations. Booting on private property needs signs posted in English and Spanish, and notice to the driver when they park. In a parking space or shared lot the company or owner must leave a written warning on the windshield 24 hours ahead. No warning is needed for a repeat of the same violation, or when a car blocks a fire zone, driveway or disabled space, or sits in a resident's assigned space or a residents-only lot. A company has to take cash or a major credit card and give an itemized bill. It has to free a car within 90 minutes in business hours, or 120 minutes outside them. It has to free the car at once if the driver pays at least $60 and signs a state form for the rest. Breaking these rules is a deceptive trade practice the attorney general or a district attorney can act on. The Colorado House voted 41-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1182 and pass it. Some insurers price home policies using computer models of wildfire and disaster risk. The act makes an insurer using such a model share information about it with state regulators when it files rates. The insurer has to take account of steps a homeowner took to reduce risk. It also has to publish what discounts are available for that work. The Colorado House voted 42-20 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 11, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 86. The bill would have set duties for social media companies. Each would have had to publish its platform's rules and report to the state each year on breaches of them. It would also have set a takedown process for four kinds of misuse: selling or advertising illegal drugs, selling guns illegally, sex trafficking of a minor, and sexual images of children. After a report of one of those, the company would have had 48 hours to decide whether the report was false. Where more digging was needed it would have had to suspend the account, finish within 10 days, and close the account within 24 hours of finding a breach. The Colorado House passed it 46-18. The governor vetoed it, the Senate voted to override, and the House never took up the question, so the veto stood.

March 31, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1090 and pass it. The act makes sellers show one total price that includes every fee a buyer must pay. That price must stand out more than any other price shown. Government charges and shipping do not have to be inside it. A restaurant or bar can instead state any required service charge and say how it is shared out, and delivery apps have their own rules. Landlords cannot charge tenants more for utilities than the utility bills them, beyond a markup the lease allows of up to 2% or $10 a month, not both. They also cannot charge for property taxes, shared area upkeep, or work a landlord already owes, or raise any fee other than utility costs by more than 2% during a lease of a year or less. Breaking these rules counts as a deceptive trade practice, which a buyer can sue over. A seller who keeps charging after a written demand owes the money back plus 18% yearly interest. The Colorado House voted 41-21 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

March 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1197. The act sets rules for selling electric bicycles. A bike that can switch between classes has to be labeled to say so. Sellers cannot offer bikes that fail the labeling and equipment rules. The rules cover shops and online sales into the state. The Colorado House passed it 46-16 and the governor signed it into law.

March 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1217. The act tightens the rules on funeral businesses. Stealing money a client paid for funeral services is now both a deceptive trade practice and a crime. Pre-need funeral contracts do not include transportation protection agreements. The act also moves the date by which someone training as a mortuary practitioner has to have 4,000 hours of work experience. The Colorado House passed it 46-15 and the governor signed it into law.

March 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1011. The bill would have set rules for child care centers owned by investment firms. A firm counted if it held at least a fifth of a center or chain, and the rules applied only where it owned five or more centers. Each center would have had to post and update its prices on its website. After the firm took over, it would have had to give 60 days notice before layoffs or changes to who can enroll. The Colorado House passed it 38-23, but the Senate rejected it 16-18 and the bill died.

March 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 1179. The act makes car insurance pay to replace a child car seat damaged in a crash. When someone files a claim, the insurer has to ask whether a car seat was in the vehicle. If there was one, the policy covering the crash pays to replace it or repays what the owner spent. The Colorado House passed it 40-22 and the governor signed it into law.

March 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1269 and pass it. Riders often cannot tell what a bus or train costs or where it goes. From mid-2027 an agency carrying at least a million trips a year must post clear maps at rail and bus stations. It must also show fares and discount rules online, in vehicles and at sheltered stops. A link or QR code counts, and no agency has to replace signs just for this. The Colorado House voted 42-22 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 172. The front range passenger rail district covers land from Wyoming to New Mexico. Its boundary was drawn by county and planning-region lines, which cut through towns. The act redraws it as a named list of whole municipalities plus defined county areas. The district's purpose and powers are unchanged. The Colorado House passed it 47-16 and the governor signed it into law.

May 9, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1081 and pass it. Building new power lines takes years. The act pushes utilities toward gear that carries more power on the lines already standing. A utility's ten-year plan must now weigh better wire and other grid-boosting tools. Projects that use them have to pay prevailing wages and take on apprentices. The Colorado House voted 44-19 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 14, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to adopt the conference committee's report on Senate Bill 161 and pass it. The act sets performance rules for the Regional Transportation District, the Denver area's transit agency. It has to plan, track its performance and report to a public board. It has to work with local governments, other transit agencies and planning bodies. It has to set goals for keeping staff and measure how it is doing against them. Its planning has to line up with the mode choice work another 2025 act started. The Colorado House voted 43-22 to adopt that report and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to accept the Senate's changes to House Bill 1292 and pass it. The act sets out how a company can put high voltage power lines inside a state highway right-of-way. The transport department has to run a preconstruction process and get information from the developer. That has to cover how the line would be built, reached and maintained, and how it would avoid harm. The department sets what the developer pays for using the right-of-way. The department also writes rules to carry this out. The Colorado House voted 46-18 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

May 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 162. The act tightens railroad safety reporting. When the state watch center hears from a railroad about an emergency involving a train, it has to tell the utilities commission and the rail safety office at once. Within 30 days the office has to brief named legislative committees. The act also requires an assessment of rail safety, with set contents. The Colorado House passed it 44-19 and the governor signed it into law.

May 2, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 81. The act creates a state authority to finance public infrastructure. The authority can raise money and lend it for transport, energy, water systems and public buildings. It has to write policies for how it lends, and lenders it works with sign agreements. It reports on its activities to lawmakers. The act also changes the state's public financing fund and its options for paying for buildings. The Colorado House passed it 40-23 and the governor signed it into law.

April 25, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted no on a motion to revive a rejected amendment that would have rewritten the ballot question on the state K-12 school funding measure, telling voters the state could spend part of the money it keeps on any purpose the legislature chose. The motion failed 21-43 (Senate Bill 26-135, amendment H.002).

May 8, 2026

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Was elected vice president of the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education after the December 5, 2023 oath ceremony.

December 5, 2023

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Carter was a lead sponsor of a law creating a state courts working group to study how juries are picked and recommend changes to lawmakers and the state supreme court (House Bill 26-1288).

May 28, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate's changes to House Bill 1236. Arbitration clauses can leave a worker or shopper facing fees far above court fees. The bill would have made such a clause void, letting the person go to court instead. It would also have barred an arbitrator from running a case where they had a conflict. The rules could not have been signed away in advance. The Colorado House voted 33-32 to accept those changes and pass the bill, but the governor vetoed it.

May 13, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 35. Speeding is behind hundreds of Colorado road deaths a year. The act adds license points on top of the usual ones for repeat serious speeding. A second offense in a year adds two points, a third in two years adds four, and a fifth in five years adds eight. Driving at 100 miles an hour or more adds four points on its own. The Colorado House passed it 35-30 and the governor signed it into law.

May 12, 2026

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Was a lead sponsor of a new law letting construction contractors hand the property owner a surety bond, a guarantee backed by an insurer, instead of having part of their pay held back until the job is finished. Colorado caps that held-back money at 5% on private contracts of $150,000 or more. The governor signed the bill on May 7, 2026 (House Bill 26-1311, Chapter 129).

May 7, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 134. Card networks charge a shop a percentage of the whole sale, including the sales tax. The bill would have barred a network from charging that fee on the tax part. It would also have barred raising other fees to make up the difference. Small card issuers would have been left out and could not have been punished for it. The Colorado House voted 44-20 to pass it, but the governor vetoed the bill.

May 6, 2026

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Was a lead sponsor of a bill rewriting Colorado's homicide crimes, narrowing first-degree murder, adding a second-degree murder charge, and creating aggravated and negligent vehicular homicide offenses. The House passed it 33-32 on April 29, 2026, but it died in the Senate (House Bill 26-1281).

April 29, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 59. Some Colorado legislators also hold a city or county seat. From the 76th General Assembly a member may not hold another elected office while serving. A special district seat is exempt. So is a member with under a year left in either post when they are sworn in. The Colorado House passed it 34-28 and the governor signed it into law.

April 22, 2026

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Voted against passing House Bill 1245. Building customers pay contractors up front and sometimes the money goes elsewhere. The bill would have made it theft when a contractor carelessly spent advance payment on something unrelated. The money would also have had to cause unfair delay or a stoppage on the job. It would have sat beside the forms of theft already in Colorado law. The Colorado House rejected it 27-37, and the bill did not become law.

April 21, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 87. Serving in the Colorado legislature pays too little to live on, so most members hold another job. The bill would have given members a right to legislative leave from that job during session. The employer could have made the leave paid, unpaid or part paid. An outside employer could not have fired a member for taking it. The Colorado House voted 33-31 to pass it, but the bill did not become law.

April 2, 2026

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Voted against passing House Bill 1137. Campaign consultants sometimes work for candidates running against each other. The bill would have barred a consultant or firm from taking on opposing candidates. Both candidates' written consent after full disclosure would have been the only exception. It would also have barred passing one client's information to benefit an opponent. The Colorado House rejected it 26-35, and the bill did not become law.

March 10, 2026

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Voted against a floor amendment to a bill on how banks handle financial exploitation of vulnerable adults; the amendment failed 24-36 (House Bill 26-1110).

March 6, 2026

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Voted No on final passage of the HB26-1151 Department of Corrections supplemental; the House vote passed 46-17.

February 12, 2026

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 288. The act creates the Preventing Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Digital Depictions Act. Someone shown in an intimate image, including one made or altered by computer, can sue the person who shared it or threatened to. The act also updates the crimes of posting a private image and exploiting a child. The Colorado House passed it 43-22 and the governor signed it into law.

May 6, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate's changes to House Bill 1290. The act adds transit workers to Colorado's harassment law. Wrongly getting in the way of a transit worker doing their job now counts as harassment. Transit workers include bus and train operators, ticket inspectors, conductors and station staff. They also include the people who maintain, repair, test and clean vehicles and stations, whether they work for a public agency or a private company. Those workers get the rights the Victim Rights Act gives. The Regional Transportation District can also draw on a state fund for officer training. The Colorado House voted 37-27 to accept those changes and pass the bill, and the governor signed it into law.

April 23, 2025

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Voted against passing Senate Bill 70. An online marketplace has to alert police when it knows, or should know, that a seller is offering stolen goods to a buyer in Colorado. It does not have to report if police already told it about that seller and those goods. The marketplace has to set up a way for shoppers to report suspicious activity by phone or online. It also has to have a way to spot organized retail crime. Breaking these rules counts as a deceptive trade practice. The Colorado House passed it 48-16 and the governor signed it into law.

April 23, 2025

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Voted against passing House Bill 1282. Shops pay card networks a fee on every card payment, worked out on the whole bill. The bill would have barred charging that fee on the sales tax or the tip. It would have banned a network from fixing those fees with the banks that issue cards. It would also have stopped a network making a shop accept every card an issuer offers. The Colorado House passed it 43-21, but a Senate committee killed it.

March 19, 2025

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