Each year we track new Colorado housing legislation as it goes through the Colorado legislative session and produce an annual report and legislative update.
The 2026 Colorado Legislative Report is attached at the bottom of this post.
Our goal is to track any major policy changes and to keep Reiville members updated with any new laws that impact our real estate investing business.
We’re particularly interested in critical changes you need to make to things like fair housing, permitted fees, advertising, tenant screening, tenant applications, lease agreements, property management and eviction notices.
2026 Colorado Legislation Review
Here’s a quick update for 2026.
The 2026 legislative session recently concluded and we’re pleased to report back that it was a relatively quiet year for housing and the real estate industry.
There wasn’t much to report after the fireworks of 2023 and 2024. A few more tenant protection rights, more transparency from HOAs around their reserve funding and some clarification around support animals and post occupancy agreements. There was also some relief for larger landlords on how to charge for utilities.
The billion dollar state budget shortfall probably has legislators worrying about bigger fish than little ol’ mom-and-pop investors and landlords.
The most anti-landlord bills failed to pass but I suspect we’ll see them come back in the next few years.
As an example, HB26-1106 proposed some crazy stuff like giving tenants a “list of excuses”, like sickness, a transportation issue or even bad weather, as to why they failed to pay rent or attend court and significantly extended time periods for court dates and eviction actions.
This failed bill gives investors an insight into how far legislators are willing to go to protect tenants from eviction or delay the eviction process.
This was potential bad news for investors and just one more indication that it is getting tougher to be a landlord. It also follows the policy trend of moving the financial burden from the state to the landlord for tenants facing housing emergencies.
In keeping with the state policy to tackle housing supply through increased zoning density, I was particularly interested in two bills that proposed reducing the minimum lot size and allowing lot splits on single-family lots, but they both failed.
The state has recently passed sweeping legislation that encourage density, especially along major transit routes, promote ADUs in any single family lot and removed leasing restrictions like limiting the number of unrelated tenants, reducing or eliminating off street parking requirements and limiting HOAs.
There is a quiet war that has broken out between the state and the home rule municipalities as to who has control of local land planning and zoning authority. Keep an eye on the lawsuit between a number of the Front Range cities and the state on this issue.
Index of 2026 Bills
The following 2026 bills were passed in the 2026 regular legislative session.
HB26-1196 – Tenant Data Information (protect tenant data including in public eviction actions)
HB26-1045 – Disabilities Housing Protection (allows assistance animals and emotional support animals)
HB26-1099 – Protect Financial Condition of Homeowners Associations (more transparency in HOA reserves)
SB26-054 – Security Deposits & Post-Closing Occupancy Agreements (exempts security deposit restrictions in post closing occupancy agreements)
The following 2026 bills failed but are worth tracking because they may come up again in the future.
HB26-1114 – Allowed Minimum Lot Size for Subject Jurisdictions (minimum lot size reduced to 2,000 sqft)
HB26-1106 – Eviction Protections for Tenants (some crazy stuff)
HB26-1047 – Protections for Residential Tenants (limits personal data exposure in evictions, suppressed court records)
You can read our full review in the report.