HB26-1206: Your AMEND Vote is Respectfully Requested

Section 4 of House Bill 26-1206 destabilizes financing and development for urban renewal authorities (URAs) and the projects they support by allowing agreements tied to URA debt to create priority liens on project property — liens that function like property tax liens and automatically override existing mortgages and other financing structures.

This is a significant departure from current practice that introduces unnecessary risk into URA projects statewide. The remainder of the bill expands funding tools for housing authorities, including voter-approved tax options and enhanced bonding authority, which will not be jeopardized by the removal of Section 4.

SB26-093: Your NO Vote is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-093 Workers’ Compensation Insurance Coverage Verification wrongly transfers a core state regulatory responsibilities for workers compensation onto
local governments without funding, without training, and without any recognition that this work falls far outside the mission of a municipal permitting office, resulting in delayed permits and higher construction costs.

The bill orders municipalities to verify workers’ compensation coverage before issuing or renewing building permits and contractor licenses — and to investigate complaints, suspend or revoke permits upon violations, and report enforcement actions to the state.

SB26-176: Your NO Vote is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-176 “The No Kings Act” creates a new state cause of action against public employees in state courts for alleged violations of an individual’s right under the U.S. Constitution, also referred to as a converse 1983 action. While the stated intent is to provide a cause of action against federal officials, the proposal applies to all public employees and elected officials. And while these new claims are intended to be similar to federal Section 1983 claims, the bill can’t guarantee that courts will treat it the same. There are numerous ways in which these new claims could diverge, resulting in increased litigation, costs, and liability. The risk to public entities, public servants, and the state courts is simply too great.

House Bill 26-1114: Your Opposition is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1114 would require local governments in Colorado to allow residential development on lots as small as 2,000 square feet. While intended to increase housing supply, this mandate overlooks fundamental principles of sound land use planning, disregards infrastructure realities, and fails to address the root causes of the state’s housing challenges.

House Bill 26-1308: Your Opposition is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1308 requires municipalities to approve splitting residential lots down to parcels as small as 1,200 square feet using administrative approval processes. The bill removes community planning and public input from the decision-making process. The bill does not include sufficient safeguards for emergency access to lots, assurances of affordability, or adequate infrastructure to support new development.  

SB26-071: Your Opposition is Respectfully Requested

SB26-071, Use of surveillance Technology By Law Enforcement, regulates and limits how law enforcement agencies may use so-called “surveillance technologies,” including red light cameras, license plate reader (LPR) systems, pole-mounted cameras, drones, facial recognition, and other similar technology.  

SB26-100: Your Opposition is Respectfully Requested

SB26-100, Youth Sports Safety Requirements, imposes new and unnecessary rules on local recreation programs that will make it harder to recruit volunteers and coaches, and more expensive for kids to participate in sports. SB26-100:

• Requires exhaustive background checks for youth sports coaches and chaperones, potentially interfering with existing employment and volunteer relationships 
  
• Imposes burdensome supervision requirements on already strained youth sports systems 
  
• Creates a new civil private right to file suit against local governments that operate youth sports programs for the private criminal actions of volunteers or coaches, if the municipality did not complete the new expanded background checks or supervision requirements, with insufficient exclusions or protections for administrative errors
  
• Requires an adult with CPR, first aid, and AED certifications at every activity, even when activities are held in a facility where multiple certified adults are already present

HB26-1250: Your Opposition is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1250, Procedures Related to Civil Asset Forfeiture, changes Colorado’s civil asset forfeiture process by narrowing an important existing exception that allows a forfeiture action to proceed without a conviction, requiring a forfeiture action be put on hold during any appeal or post-conviction process in the criminal case, and establishing a right to forfeiture defense counsel. The bill creates a fund to pay for such defense counsel, with the money coming from a portion of the forfeiture proceeds and by shifting $1.1 million from the law enforcement community services grant program to the defense fund. 

HB26-1138: Your Support is Respectfully Requested

HB26-1138, Retail Theft Prevention Program, establishes a Retail Theft Prevention Advisory Board and a corresponding grant program to combat organized felony-level retail theft and gift card fraud. The advisory board will administer the grant program, collect and analyze statewide data on organized retail theft, and develop policy recommendations to combat these crimes. The grant program will provide funding for investigation and prosecution, technology and data-sharing systems, training, and coordinated prevention strategies.

HB26-1037: Your OPPOSITION is Respectfully Requested

HB26-1037, Ban Government Purchase of Personal Data from Third Party, prohibits law enforcement agencies and prosecutors from obtaining or sharing certain personal data made available by third-party vendors. While intended to address privacy concerns, the bill goes beyond existing Fourth Amendment standards and would disrupt established investigative and prosecutorial practices by limiting routine information sharing. The bill creates a broad private right of action for alleged violations. HB26-1037’s expansive definition of “personal data” creates uncertainty about what information and tools may be used in day-to-day operations. In addition, the bill excludes improperly obtained data from court proceedings without clearly addressing its application to ongoing cases or providing a mechanism to address inadvertent violations.

SB26-142: Your SUPPORT is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-142, Development of Therman Energy Resources, clarifies and provides authorization for municipalities to develop and expand thermal energy projects. The bill ensures that municipalities can aggregate energy demand, enter into agreements to develop, operate and finance these projects and provide this energy outside of their jurisdiction. This will allow municipalities to develop or expand their thermal energy projects and work with other local governments and entities. 

HB26-1334: Your SUPPORT is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1334, Concerning Modifications to the Standards of the Wildfire Resiliency Code Board, gives a reasonable amount of the time for local governments to adopt and implement Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code. Currently, jurisdictions must adopt the code by April 1, 2026. Under this bill the deadline would be April 1, 2027. The bill also requires an immediate review of the code (by July 1, 2026) to provide adequate transparency and stakeholder engagement and then at least every three years, or more as needed.

SB26-129: Your NO Vote is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-129, Mitigate Impacts of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), requires taxing districts to provide costly and unnecessary certifications or rebuttals to impact reports when TIF is used. Impact reports summarize the estimated property tax increment generated by a project and the portion allocated to fund the project, among other details.

The bill also perpetuates the harmful myth that property tax revenue used in TIF “would have gone to education if not for tax increment financing” by requiring Legislative Council Staff to annually quantify that amount. 

SB26-098: Your SUPPORT  is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-098 allows local governments to enact reasonable noise ordinances without cumbersome and antiquated state rules. The bill clarifies local authority to ensure that municipalities and counties can develop noise permitting programs that fit their communities and support vibrant neighborhoods and economic districts.

HB26-1257: Your SUPPORT  is Respectfully Requested

HB24-1371 inadvertently restricted the regulatory tools that home rule municipalities have successfully used for years to shut down “illicit massage facilities” — establishments that exploit the guise of legitimate massage services to facilitate human trafficking, drug distribution, money laundering, and fraud.

House Bill 26-1257, Local Regulation of Massage Facilities, restores the ability to use the regulatory tools necessary to combat illicit activity occurring in these facilities.

SB26-070: Your NO Vote is Respectfully Requested

Senate Bill 26-070 -Ban Government Access to Historical Location Information, would place significant and unworkable restrictions on a law enforcement’s ability to use automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology and other historical location information. Cities and towns are already on the frontlines of creating reasonable guardrails around this technology. SB26-070 doesn’t build on those efforts, it overrides them with rigid, statewide mandates that do not reflect how investigations work. While framed as a privacy measure, SB26-070 ties the hands of law enforcement to use lawfully collected information for legitimate public safety purposes and victim assistance.

HB26-1071: Your SUPPORT is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1071, Local Government Vehicle Identification System on Interstate Highways, improves road safety and helps invest in vulnerable road user projects by allowing local governments to deploy speed cameras on federal interstates in coordination with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).

Your NO Vote is Respectfully Requested

House Bill 26-1001 - Housing Developments on Qualifying Properties (“Housing Opportunities Made Easier”) abandons sound planning and housing needs assessments and gives special privileges to certain groups to build multifamily residential buildings with no community input and without any consistency with surrounding development.