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House Judiciary

Wednesday, February 25, 2026·4h 29m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Judiciary Committee advanced a pair of Uniform Law Commission measures unanimously and cleared a municipal-court transparency bill over two Republican objections, part of a packed docket that also carried a 100-plus-witness bill.

Key Actions

·Uniform Mortgage Modification ActPassed

+ 2 more actions

Notable Quotes

Sometimes bankers were not necessarily agreeing to reduce that rate interest rate because they would be afraid that their status as a lienholder might be somewhat adversely affected.

Cecelia EspenozaEspenoza's core rationale for the bill: existing ambiguity in lien-priority law was discouraging lenders from granting modifications that would benefit borrowers, such as lowering an adjustable interest rate.

Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (10)Jennifer Bacon, Jarvis Caldwell, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
Excused (1)Rebecca Keltie
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (9)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
No (2)Jarvis Caldwell, Rebecca Keltie
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Jennifer Bacon, Jarvis Caldwell, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Rebecca Keltie, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
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Sam, The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll representatives. Bacon. Here. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Here. Flinell. Here. Garcia. Kelty. Excused. Caldwell. Here. Super excused is okay. Excused. Carter? Present. Mr. Chair here. We got four bills today. There are more than 1100 witnesses on the last bill 1037. I'll just the outset note in light of the fact that there are more than 100 witnesses on 1037 and I will get to this when we get to the bill too, but I'm going to do three minute testimony. I'm not going to limit for questions on the earlier bills, but so that we can get through and hear everybody on 1037 we're going to do two minute testimony and I will do limited panels on questions. Hopefully we'll get there sooner rather than later. Let's start with House Bill 1089. Espinosa. Thank you Mr. Chair. I'm here today as representative of House District 4 obviously, but also I sit on the Uniform Law Commission and we have two bills today that we'll be presenting that came through the Colorado Uniform Law Commission's process. And so these are bills that are not part of the regular
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