The Colorado General Assembly adjourned the week of May 4, closing the 2026 Second Regular Session after 17 Good bills and 23 Bad bills cleared one or both chambers in the final stretch. Session totals stand at 146 Good bills and 209 Bad bills across 17 weeks.
The session’s closing days produced a mixed record. SB26-134, restricting credit card networks from collecting interchange fees on the sales tax portion of transactions, passed the Senate 34-1 — the strongest bipartisan vote of the week. SB26-043, the firearm barrel sale criminal penalty bill that had been laid over since March, cleared the House 65-0 on Monday in an unusual final-week reversal. Weeks of near-party-line resistance produced no Republican opposition in the final vote. SB26-005, the immigration enforcement remedy bill, failed in the House 21-42.
Governor Polis signed more than 40 bills during the week of May 4-8. On May 4, he signed SB26-059, SB26-076, SB26-104, SB26-105, SB26-121, SB26-128, SB26-153, HB26-1034, HB26-1050, HB26-1058, HB26-1098, HB26-1103, HB26-1107, HB26-1127, HB26-1144, HB26-1145, HB26-1186, HB26-1208, HB26-1232, HB26-1234, HB26-1253, HB26-1257, HB26-1293, HB26-1305, and HB26-1333. On May 5, he signed SB26-019, SB26-040, SB26-083, SB26-085, SB26-109, SB26-122, HB26-1044, HB26-1215, HB26-1216, HB26-1217, HB26-1218, HB26-1219, HB26-1220, HB26-1237, HB26-1238, HB26-1259, HB26-1294, HB26-1295, HB26-1296, HB26-1297, and HB26-1303. The Long Bill — HB26-1410, the 2026-27 state budget — was sent to the governor April 30 and awaits his signature.
GOOD bills this week: SB26-134 (credit card network fee restrictions), SB26-177 (adjoining property repair access), SB26-012 (tribal member crime victim compensation), HB26-1084 (voter transparency in ballot measures), SB26-051 (age attestation on computing devices), HB26-1016 (open education resources program), HB26-1059 (cost recovery cash fund consolidation), HB26-1014 (job growth incentive tax credit extension), HB26-1230 (conservation easement tax credit extension), HB26-1423 (community corrections budget transparency), HB26-1053 (motor vehicle regulation cleanup), HB26-1088 (business entity filing cleanup), HB26-1019 (kidney screening preventive coverage), SB26-003 (electric vehicle battery end-of-life management), HB26-1258 (death practices cleanup), SB26-175 (workers’ comp experience modification factor), HB26-1109 (sign language consumer protection study).
BAD bills this week: HB26-1222, HB26-1289, HB26-1223, HB26-1221 (tax expenditure modifications), HB26-1065 (transit and housing investment zones), HB26-1111 (pesticide disposal enterprise creation), HB26-1117 (marijuana hospitality permits), SB26-151 (PERA modifications), SB26-149 (mental health disorder pathways appropriation), HB26-1255 (social media duty-to-report mandate), HB26-1054 (worker safety protections mandate), HB26-1272 (extreme temperatures worker protections), HB26-1327 (large employer health-care support mandate), HB26-1328 (Medicaid nonemergency transportation mandate), SB26-147 (lobbyist regulation expansion), SB26-048 (remove minor marriage judicial exception), SB26-146 (single-use food serviceware restrictions), SB26-113 (recovery residence licensing mandate), HB26-1043 (transportation network company anti-discrimination mandate), SB26-020 (child care provider licensing expansion), HB26-1113 (election law modifications), HB26-1141 (discriminatory practices in public schools mandate), HB26-1309 (abuse in separation cases mandate).
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