2026 Colorado Legislative Session
Tracking all bills, debates, and decisions from Colorado's 2026 legislative session. From budget battles to education reform, follow the issues that matter most to Coloradans.
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View all →Tighter gun rules and other new Colorado laws take effect July 1
A batch of new Colorado laws takes effect July 1, 2026, led by two firearms measures on retail ammunition and 3D-printed guns.
Colorado’s August permit-to-purchase law nears as gun group readies a new lawsuit
Starting August 1, buyers of many semiautomatic firearms must get a sheriff-issued eligibility card and pass a safety course. The Colorado State Shooting Association said it would announce a fresh…
Colorado measure would let state keep TABOR refunds for schools
A November ballot question sent to voters by SB26-135 would let Colorado retain surplus revenue it now refunds to taxpayers, funding a decade of K-12 increases.
How the Tamale Act changed: a food freedom bill that picked up a cap and a registration mandate
HB26-1033 started as a clean repeal of Colorado's $10,000 cottage food revenue cap; the version that passed sets a $150,000 cap and adds mandatory state registration, changes Free State Colorado's…
CUT backs a sunset reauthorization, opposes three bills on Capitol security, welfare administration, and a state minimum-wage exemption
The Colorado Union of Taxpayers supports HB26-1324, a sunset of the Division of Professions and Occupations after a proposed fee increase was withdrawn. It opposes HB26-1422, which creates a new…
Johnson says HB26-1430 fits a Colorado pattern of legislating around voters
Former state Rep. Ramey Johnson, a Colorado Union of Taxpayers board member, told The Kim Monson Show that the road-funding bill is the latest entry in a thirty-year pattern of…
State agencies are spending $3 million to sell Coloradans on a rail tax before the ballot question is written
A CDOT grant routes $3 million to the Front Range Passenger Rail District for polling, dozens of town halls, branded coalition-building, and a digital advocacy platform now live as Colorado…
House panel advances HB26-1430, a Friday-drop tax-cut bill that activates only if voters approve Initiative 175
Colorado House Transportation, Housing and Local Government voted 9 to 4 along party lines on May 5 to refer a bill that cuts gas taxes and registration fees if, and…
Colorado Union of Taxpayers opposes five bills on contractor licensing, behavior analyst regulation, transportation, investment authority, and clean energy
CUT Engaged opposes all five measures as the legislature takes up an optional state contractor certification, an applied behavior analysis licensing board with a Medicaid reimbursement mandate, a transportation tax…
Colorado House passes HB26-1281, narrowing first-degree murder
The 33-32 reengrossed bill limits first-degree extreme-indifference murder to four trigger scenarios and creates a new second-degree class for single-death cases.
Colorado bill would let regulators compel Xcel to put Comanche 3 costs on every electric bill for decades
HB26-1326 hands the Public Utilities Commission new authority to order utilities to securitize costs through a non-bypassable charge on ratepayers, with the troubled Pueblo coal plant sitting in plain view…
Polis signs SB26-032, ending Colorado’s reliance on the federal vaccine schedule
SB26-032 lets Colorado's Board of Health set its own vaccine schedules, grants pharmacists authority to vaccinate minors, and shields administrators of board-recommended vaccines from liability.
Colorado House passes HB26-1419 TABOR clawback 41-21 after rejecting Republican referendum amendments
Reps. Chris Richardson and Ken DeGraaf tried to send the FY24-25 over-refund question to the November 2026 ballot under Article X, Section 20. Democrats rejected the amendments and the reversal…
Bipartisan bill would force Polis administration to disclose its lobbying like everyone else
The Colorado Senate passed SB26-147 by 30 to 4. Rep. Dusty Johnson is asking House leadership to schedule second and third readings before the weekend so the bill can reach…
Front Range rail bill SB26-172 advances with appointed subdistrict boards holding ad valorem taxing power
SB26-172 expands the Front Range Passenger Rail District and lets its appointed board carve out subdistricts whose own appointed boards inherit Colorado special-district powers, including ad valorem taxes once debt…
Colorado Union of Taxpayers opposes six bills on health coverage cuts, online gaming fees, TABOR clawbacks, THC beverages, Front Range rail, and a health insurance bailout
CUT Engaged opposes all six measures as the legislature takes up cuts to the Cover All Coloradans program, a 5% fee on online gaming add-on transactions, a recalculation of the…
Colorado therapist-liability bill clears Senate Judiciary 5-2
Senate Judiciary advanced HB26-1322 on a 5-2 party-line vote Monday night, opening a second legal front against Colorado therapists weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's 2019…
Colorado’s new gaming fee writes its own TABOR exemption
HB26-1418 imposes a 5 percent fee on in-game add-on purchases and routes up to $22.8 million a year into a new state-owned business its drafters say "does not require voter…
Colorado Democrats file No Kings Act to let citizens sue state officials in state court
Senate Bill 26-176 creates a Colorado analog of federal Section 1983, letting plaintiffs bring constitutional claims against state and federal officials in state court while preserving qualified immunity defenses.
Colorado Union of Taxpayers rates four bills on utility regulators, school finance, single-use food rules, and a TABOR affirmation resolution
CUT Engaged opposes three bills and supports one resolution as the legislature takes up an 11-year extension and expansion of the Public Utilities Commission, the FY 2026-27 School Finance Act,…
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