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Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 035

Tuesday, February 17, 2026·1h 41m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Colorado House advanced six bills on second reading — including a contentious ratio utility billing cleanup bill and a youthful offender system update — with all six passing despite significant Republican opposition to the YOS bill on grounds of language changes, fiscal concerns, and executive authority questions.

Key Actions

·HB 1013 – Ratio Utility Billing SystemsPassed

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Controversies

HB 1013 — state intrusion into contractual freedom

Representative Luck stated he could not support HB 1013 because language on page 2, line 17 inserts the state into contractual negotiations, which he argued infringes upon fundamental rights to freely consent and contract. He stated that if the 'if' clause and everything beyond it were removed, he could support it. Bill sponsors did not directly rebut this objection in the recorded transcript.

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Notable Quotes

“During deliberations on that bill, sponsors, advocates, the landlord lobby all agreed that we were not intending to prohibit what is referred to as rubs, which is ratio utility billing systems. And this is a common practice used in multifamily housing. And what became clear, as in the lead up to implementation of the bill this January, was a need for clarity, that that was in fact the legislative intent and that these cost allocation practices are still allowable under the bill.”

Representative Sirota — Sirota, the sponsor of HB 1013, explained why the bill was introduced — to clarify that ratio utility billing systems remain permissible under last year's junk fees bill, HB 25-1090.

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Votes

Approval of the journal of Friday, February 13, 2026Passed
Special Orders designation for listed bills on February 17, 2026Passed
Amendment L002 to HB 1013Failed
Passage of HB 1013Passed
Health and Human Services Committee report for HB 1064Passed
Amendment L003 to HB 1064Passed
Passage of HB 1064 as amendedPassed
Committee report for HB 1076Passed
Passage of HB 1076Passed
Passage of HB 1067Passed
Amendment L001 to HB 1042Passed
Passage of HB 1042 as amendedPassed
Committee report for HB 1025Passed
Passage of HB 1025Passed
Adoption of the committee of the whole report (HB 1013, HB 1025 as amended, HB 1042 as amended, HB 1064 as amended, HB 1067, HB 1076 as amended — ordered engrossed, placed on calendar for third reading and final passage)Passed
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TranscriptPreview
Amen. The House will come to order. Today, the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by very special guests. Kailani Phillips, Marcus Phillips, Milo Phillips from North Glenn Stem Lab. Guests of Representative Win and the grandchildren of Lieutenant Governor Primavera. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please call the roll, Mr. Schiebel. Representatives bacon, barone, bassnecker. Bot. Representative bottoms. Excuse. Oh. Bradfield. Bradley, brooks. Brown. Representative brown. Excused. Caldwell, camacho, carter, clif. Representative clifford. Excused. Degraff, duran. English. Representative english. Excused. Espinoza, ferre, flannel, froelich, garcia. Rep. Garcia. Excused. Garcia. Sander. Gilchrist. Representative gilchrist. Excused. Goldstein, gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsook. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty. Leader. Lindsay. Representative Lindsay. Excused. Luck, lukens. Mabry. Representative mabry. Excused. Marshall. Representative marshall. Excused. Lobby. Okay. Martinez, morrow, mccormick, wynn, pascal, phillips, richardson, ricks. Representative rick. Excused. Rootnell. Representative ryden. Is excused. Sirota. Representative sirota. Excused. Slaw. Smith. Rep. Soper. Is excused. Stuart k. Stuart r. Sukla, taggart, tatone, valdez is excused. Rep. Velasco is excused. Weinberg, wilford, winter, woodrow, woog, zokai. Madam speaker, With 57 present, eight excused.…
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