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Chamber Position: Oppose

Seeks to strengthen consumer pricing protections by requiring sellers to disclose, at the point of sale, a comparison between the total price for delivered goods versus in-store prices. It also bans unreasonably excessive pricing to captive consumers—people who have no competitive alternatives at a location—treating those practices as deceptive trade practices under state consumer protection law.

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Chamber Position: Support

Proposes extending the deadline for awarding new Colorado Job Growth Incentive Tax Credits from the current sunset year (2026) through income tax year 2034, allowing the Economic Development Commission to approve new credits that incentivize job creation and retention in the state.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill allows counties, municipalities, and certain special districts to adopt different property tax mill levy rates for land and for the buildings or improvements on that land, as long as the rate on improvements is not higher than the rate on land. It also requires transparency and reporting if jurisdictions choose to use split rates and excludes agricultural land, renewable-energy land, conservation-easement property, and certain other categories; overall, the measure is intended to give local governments a new tool to influence development patterns and property tax structure while staying within existing constitutional limits.

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Chamber Position: Amend

Creates a statewide program to attract large data center investments by offering qualifying projects a long-term state sales-tax exemption on equipment in exchange for commitments to major capital investment, job creation, labor standards, and energy and water efficiency requirements. The bill also establishes a new authority to oversee the program and allows utilities to plan and finance grid upgrades needed to serve large-load customers like data centers while aiming to protect ratepayers and support clean-energy integration.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

Would require employers to keep workplaces free from recognized hazards consistent with federal OSHA standards as of September 1, 2025, and comply with state-adopted safety standards. The bill allows the Attorney General, labor organizations, or workers to pursue civil actions for violations, creates a Workplace Health and Safety Fund funded by penalties, and authorizes state adoption of safety standards when federal protections are absent or weakened.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would require most buildings in Colorado with restrooms open to the public to install baby diaper changing stations on each floor by July 1, 2027, either in gender-specific restrooms or in all-gender restrooms. It also requires signage showing where changing stations are located and requires owners to maintain and clean them regularly, with limited exceptions for historic buildings or cases where installation would conflict with accessibility standards. Overall, the measure is intended to improve access and convenience for caregivers in public-facing facilities.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would prohibit businesses from using surveillance data — personal information obtained from observing, inferring, or tracking consumers or workers — in automated decision systems to set individualized prices for customers or individualized wages for employees. It also allows the attorney general or affected individuals to bring civil actions for violations, treating such discriminatory pricing or wage practices as deceptive trade practices under Colorado law.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill makes a number of changes to Colorado’s arbitration law to strengthen protections for workers and consumers in dispute resolution agreements. It prohibits clauses in arbitration contracts that bar participation in representative actions (like class or collective claims) and blocks requirements that employees or customers pay arbitration fees that far exceed standard court filing costs. The bill also restricts who can serve as an arbitrator if they or their organization have policies or patterns that unfairly disadvantage certain parties, allows arbitrators to award exemplary (punitive) damages, and imposes liability for failure to comply with arbitration awards within 30 days.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would create three impact and recovery enterprises within the state behavioral health administration — one each for beer/cider/apple wine, spirits, and wine — funded by fees collected from alcohol manufacturers and wholesalers to pay for services related to alcohol use impacts. It also establishes an oversight board for these enterprises and requires periodic audits by the state auditor; the measure was introduced and assigned to committee but did not advance before being postponed indefinitely.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would require Colorado’s Department of Labor and Employment to start collecting data on temperature‑related worksite injuries and emergencies and to develop a model prevention plan for extreme heat and cold exposures by early 2028. It would also obligate employers with workers exposed to extreme temperatures to submit their own prevention plans and ensure proper temperature‑safety training, aiming to better protect workers as climate impacts intensify.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would increase taxes on alcohol products like malt liquor, wine, spirits, hard cider, and also on retail marijuana sales, with the additional revenue dedicated first to constructing and operating the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Aurora and then to long‑term civil‑commitment facilities in Mesa County. It would require voter approval of the tax change and authorize the state to retain and spend the extra revenue as a voter‑approved revenue change rather than refunding it under TABOR.

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Chamber Position: Support

This bill would require the state treasurer to transfer a total of $3.5 million from the Universal High School Scholarship Cash Fund on June 30, 2026. Of that amount, $1.2 million would be transferred to the Colorado Economic Development Fund and $2.3 million would go to the state General Fund. The measure is intended to redirect existing scholarship fund dollars toward broader state economic development and budget priorities and does not create any new programs or spending authority.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would require governmental entities to verify that applicants for building permits, construction permits, or contractor licenses — including the applicant, general contractor, and all subcontractors — have either valid workers’ compensation insurance coverage or have formally rejected such coverage before issuing or renewing those permits or licenses. It also empowers authorities to suspend or revoke permits/licenses for noncompliance and directs the state’s workers’ compensation division to adopt rules for verification and reporting procedures.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would impose new accountability and environmental requirements on large‑load data centers—defined as facilities with very high peak electricity demand—by requiring operators to source enough renewable energy to match 100 % of their annual consumption and to meet an “hourly matching” clean‑energy standard starting in 2031. It also conditions utility interconnection on long‑term contracts and cost contributions for grid upgrades, mandates reporting on energy and water use, and adds community impact analyses and benefit agreements for centers proposed in disproportionately impacted areas.

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Chamber Position: Support

SB26-137 requires state departments to review their rules at least every five years using clearer evaluation criteria—such as whether rules are outdated, duplicative, properly funded, or achieving their intended purpose—and to present findings during legislative oversight hearings. The bill also gives lawmakers additional tools to request audits or sunset reviews of programs when needed and clarifies the Attorney General’s role in litigation discovery on behalf of the state. Overall, it is designed to strengthen regulatory accountability and reduce unnecessary administrative burden on agencies, businesses, and consumers.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

SB26-146 is a Colorado bill that builds on the state’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act by changing how single-use foodware is distributed. It requires restaurants and third-party delivery services to stop automatically including items like utensils, straws, napkins, and other disposable accessories with orders. Instead, these items can only be provided if a customer specifically requests them or opts in after being prompted. The bill applies to both in-person and delivery transactions, with some exceptions and protections for delivery platforms that properly relay customer preferences. It also directs the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to publish implementation and enforcement guidance by 2027. The law would take effect on January 1, 2027, and is intended to reduce unnecessary waste by shifting to a “request-only” model for single-use foodware.

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Chamber Position: Support

This bill would create a process for employers and insurance producers to request updates to an employer’s workers’ compensation experience modification factor when a workers’ compensation claim closes for less than the amount initially reported by the insurance carrier. If the revised claim amount would meaningfully lower the employer’s experience modification factor — including reducing it from above 1.0 to 1.0 or below — the insurance carrier would be required to update the factor and provide any resulting premium credit to the employer. The bill is intended to ensure employers are not overpaying workers’ compensation premiums based on outdated claim information.

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Chamber Position: Monitor

This bill would make several changes to Colorado’s Health Insurance Affordability Act aimed at stabilizing and funding state health insurance affordability programs. The measure would allow the Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise to issue up to $100 million in revenue bonds, revise how enterprise revenues are allocated, reduce the state’s reinsurance premium reduction target to 18%, and require certain subsidized insurance enrollees to pay premiums set through rulemaking. The bill would also transfer $40 million from the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund to support affordability programs, require additional reporting and financial oversight, and direct a study on restructuring affordability programs to maximize enrollment and reduce costs.

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Chamber Position: Support

This bill consolidates local early childhood services by expanding the powers and responsibilities of early childhood councils to include the duties formerly carried out by local coordinating organizations, and it repeals the statutory basis for those coordinating organizations effective July 1, 2026. It also requires councils to develop strategic plans addressing family access, provider recruitment, workforce support, and coordination with local partners, and it adds new accountability requirements including annual performance reviews with the Department of Early Childhood, performance improvement plans, and potential termination of agreements for councils that fail to meet expectations.

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Chamber Position: Support

This bill updates Colorado’s child care provider licensing system by requiring the Department of Early Childhood to expand and standardize a centralized digital file system for provider information and to rely more on its own trained personnel rather than third‑party inspectors. It also allows provisional licenses when local zoning delays compliance, mandates local authorities expedite approvals and limit fees, and creates a task force to recommend ways to streamline and improve licensing and quality processes.

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Chamber Position: Support

SB26-001 allows counties and municipalities to use public land and certain tax revenues more flexibly to support workforce and affordable housing projects, authorizes long-term leases of public property for housing development, and makes it easier to form multijurisdictional housing authorities. The bill also expands access to the state’s middle-income housing tax credit by allowing transferred credits to be claimed by entities that do not own a direct stake in the housing project, helping attract additional private investment into housing development. Overall, the measure is intended to increase financing options and accelerate the creation of workforce housing statewide.

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Chamber Position: Support

SB26-040 clarifies that homes developed through the Affordable Home Ownership Program are reserved for households earning up to 120% of statewide area median income and provides additional flexibility to the Colorado Division of Housing in how program funds are allocated. The bill also expands eligibility and makes technical updates to better align the program with current housing market conditions, helping more Coloradans access attainable homeownership opportunities.

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Chamber Position: Support

This bill expands Colorado’s Natural Disaster Mitigation Enterprise Fund so that individual homeowners and homeowners’ associations can receive assistance for property‑specific disaster mitigation actions, including impact‑resistant roofing and similar improvements. It also creates a new income tax deduction for contributions to a Catastrophe Savings Account — a fund homeowners can use to cover insurance deductibles and uninsured losses from hail, wildfire, or catastrophic wind events — and exempts interest earned in such accounts from state income tax.

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Chamber Position: Support

Amends existing law to allow more off-campus courses offered by higher education institutions to count toward concurrent enrollment programs—courses where high school students earn college credit—so long as they meet all program and accrediting requirements.

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Chamber Position: Oppose

This bill would require large private employers (those with 100 or more workers) doing business in Colorado to include demographic workforce data — the race, ethnicity, gender, and job‑category breakdowns they already report on the federal EEO‑1 form — in the periodic reports they file with the Colorado Secretary of State. The goal is to increase transparency about workforce composition, giving workers, advocates, and the public clearer insight into employment patterns at major employers across the state.

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Chamber Position: Support

HB26-1317 creates a transition committee to develop a plan for integrating oversight of workforce development programs into the Colorado Department of Higher Education, with the goal of building a more coordinated statewide talent development system. Beginning in 2028, the bill also updates the department’s mission to reflect this expanded role, helping connect education, training, and employment programs more closely so employers can more easily access skilled talent and Coloradans can navigate clearer pathways from education to careers.