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Wednesday, March 4, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

Colorado's Senate Transportation & Energy Committee advanced a bill scrapping remaining paper-title mandates for vehicle transactions and signed off on six nominees to the new Building Decarbonization Enterprise Board — both cleared to the consent calendar without dissent.

Key Actions

·Electronic Vehicle RecordsPassed

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Notable Quotes

It allows companies like Havana to better serve Coloradans by moving at the speed of Internet rather than the speed of the pony express.

Tony Hall, Head of Policy for DMV and Industry Affairs, Carvana · witnessCarvana's pitch for why removing paper-title requirements matters — framing the reform as modernizing a slow, error-prone process.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (8)Mark Baisley, Marc Catlin, Tony Exum, William Lindstedt, Byron Pelton, Tom Sullivan, Matt Ball, Lisa Cutter
Excused (1)Kyle Mullica
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TranscriptPreview
Okay. Transportation and Energy Committee will now come to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please take the roll? Senators Bazley. Present. Catlin. Here. Exum. Excused. Linstedt. Present. Malika. Excused. Elton. Present. Sullivan. Here. Ball. Here. And Madam Chair? Here. And I see Senator Exum is also present now. Okay, thank you. Today we're going to switch things up slightly. We have some appointments to make, but first we're going to let Senator Pelton talk about his electronic vehicles records Bill 1041, because he has to present in another committee. So thank you. Please begin when you're ready. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you for moving the committee around a little bit for me today. Members, this is what we saw in the TLRC committee where we're going to repeal the existing requirement that paper certificates of title be used for specific vehicle transactions, thereby allowing the use of electronic format in all circumstances. There was one amendment that was put in the House where it says any parter party to the transaction may request either a paper or electronic version. So there's been. It's. It's pretty permissive on this one. I will tell you that I've heard complaints in
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