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Senate Local Government & Housing

Thursday, February 12, 2026·1h 17m·▶ Watch / Listen

Colorado's Senate Local Government & Housing Committee cleared two real-estate measures — a unanimous fix to security-deposit rules for home closings, and a new CHFA home-loan program for police and first responders that drew a lone dissent from Sen. Mark Baisley on free-market grounds.

Key Actions

·Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Mortgage POST Officers First RespondersPassed

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Notable Quotes

We're actually seeing the last eight of our patrol deputies that we hired are living in Cheyenne, Wyoming because they can find housing in that area.

John Fann (Larimer County Sheriff) · witnessThe sheriff's blunt illustration of how housing costs are pushing sworn officers out of the counties they patrol — the core case for the loan program.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (6)Matt Ball, Chris Kolker, Janice Rich, Marc Snyder, Tony Exum, Larry Liston
No (1)Mark Baisley
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Mark Baisley, Larry Liston, Marc Snyder, Matt Ball, Chris Kolker, Janice Rich, Tony Exum
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TranscriptPreview
Senators Basley. Present. Ball. Excused. Kolker. Here. Liston. Here. Rich. Excused. Snyder. Here. Mr. Chair, good afternoon. Thanks everybody for joining us. So we're going to go with Senate Bill 54 first instead of 53 by request of one of the bill sponsors to for timing issues. Sometimes during this, in this time, sponsors are presenting other bills and other committees. So we'll try to make that adjustment. So we're going to hear Senate Bill 54 first with Senators Catlin and Snyder. Who would like to go first? Senator Snyder. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, the members of the committee that are here for hearing this bill. I'm sure the rest of our colleagues will be rambling in any moment now. So today you'll be hearing Senate Bill 26054. And it's a really simple bill. It's concerning the exception to the statutory limit from the 23 bill of which our distinguished chair was the prime sponsor of, that basically limits the amount of a security deposit that a landlord can charge to a tenant to two months of the rent. And what's happened is the division of real estate within DORA has been looking into this and they've
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