2025 State Bills of Interest to City of Boulder
City of Boulder

HB25-1004 No Pricing Coordination Between Landlords 
Subject: AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Boulder's Interest: 21) Provide increased support for low-income individuals and families to maintain, find and retain housing
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: S. Woodrow (D) | J. Mabrey (D) / J. Gonzales (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D)
Summary: Restricts the sale or distribution of an algorithmic device with the intent that it be used by two or more landlords in the same or related market when setting a rent price.
Status: 5/29/2025 Governor Vetoed

HB25-1005 Tax Incentive for Film Festivals 
Subject: ECONOMIC VITALITY
Boulder's Interest:
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: M. Duran (D) | B. Titone (D) / J. Amabile (D) | M. Baisley (R)
Summary: Creates a new refundable $34M tax credit only for the Sundance Film Festival if it relocates to Colorado by January 1, 2026.
Status: 4/8/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1029 Municipal Authority over Certain Land 
Subject: OPEN SPACE
Boulder's Interest: Principle: Protect local control and home rule authority unless otherwise stated in specified positions or where City Council has expressed a desire to yield such authority.
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: A. Boesenecker (D) / C. Kipp (D) | L. Liston (R)
Summary: The act amends existing authority for a city or city and county to exercise full police power and control over parks, parkways, boulevards, and roads outside of its jurisdiction (C.R.S. § 31-25-216) to now include open space and natural areas. Land may be open or closed to the public. The act amends existing authority to exempt such land that is within the Indian reservations. The authority granted by the act regarding open space and natural areas does not extend to prevention of water pollution.
Status: 3/26/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1032 Improving Infrastructure to Reduce Homelessness 
Subject: HOMELESSNESS
Boulder's Interest: State Policy Priority 1. Fund and protect the city’s ability to reduce and prevent homelessness - The city supports state action that incentivizes local governments to maintain shelters and directly invest in supporting individuals experiencing homelessness. It also supports increased statewide coordination of efforts that result in funding and programming for prevention and supportive services, expansion of mental and behavioral health prevention and treatment, transitional and permanent supportive housing options, and proposals that affect targeted populations, including the challenges presented by family, youth, veteran, and single-adult homelessness.
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: M. Rutinel (D)
Summary: Would have improved and facilitated statewide strategies and coordination on homelessness resolution through three main objectives: 1) Re-establish an interagency council on homelessness 2) Allow counties and municipalities to form regional authorities to combat homelessness; 3) Allow documentary fees to be used for affordable housing
Status: 5/13/2025 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed

HB25-1044 Local Funding for Vulnerable Road User Protection 
Subject: TRANSPORTATION/VISION ZERO
Boulder's Interest:
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: A. Boesenecker (D) / F. Winter (D) | L. Cutter (D)
Summary: The bill would have authorized a local government to generate additional fee-based funding for local transportation system strategies that improve safety for vulnerable road users.
Status: 2/12/2025 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely

HB25-1051 Repeal Recycled Paper Carryout Bag Fee 
Subject: CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Boulder's Interest: Protect local control and home rule authority unless otherwise stated in specified positions or where City Council has expressed a desire to yield such authority.
Position: Oppose
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: R. Pugliese (R) | R. Gonzalez (R) / B. Pelton (R)
Summary: Under current law, retail establishments are prohibited from providing plastic carryout bags at the point of sale, but may provide recycled paper carryout bags for a fee of at least 10 cents per bag. This bill would have repealed the requirement that retail establishments charge a fee for providing recycled paper carryout bags.
Status: 2/6/2025 House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely

HB25-1056 Local Government Permitting Wireless Telecommunications Facilities 
Subject: TELECOMMUNICATIONS/LOCAL CONTROL
Boulder's Interest: PRINCIPLE: Local Control. - Protect local control and home rule authority unless otherwise stated in specified positions or where City Council has expressed a desire to yield such authority.
Position: Actively Oppose
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: M. Lukens (D) | J. Bacon (D) / D. Roberts (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D)
Summary: Requires local governments to approve or deny permits for new wireless facilities within 150 days. Amended to allow local governments to pause this shot clock for 45 days to process other time-sensitive permits.
Status: 6/4/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1077 Backflow Prevention Devices Requirements 
Subject: WATER QUALITY
Boulder's Interest: Position 72(e) Remove recently added requirements for water backflow prevention inspection that limit the availability of inspectors necessary to assure city compliance with the Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulations (Regulation No. 11).
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: S. Lieder (D) | N. Ricks (D) / D. Roberts (D) | J. Rich (R)
Summary: The act corrects a 2024 law that limited all work on backflow prevention devices to licensed plumbers. The act reinstates the exemption from licensure for inspection, testing, and repair of backflow prevention devices. The act requires a tag to be placed on the devices when work is performed. Effective: March 28, 2025.
Status: 3/28/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1096 Automated Permits for Clean Energy Technology 
Subject: LOCAL CONTROL
Boulder's Interest: Preserve local control
Position: Actively Monitor
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: L. Smith (D) | K. Brown (D) / M. Ball (D) | C. Kipp (D)
Summary: Makes changes to the existing grant program within the Colorado Energy Office that provides funding for local governments to implement automated permitting software for residential solar projects. The introduced version of the bill had mandates for local governments to implement this software.
Status: 5/28/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1208 Local Governments Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees 
Subject: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Boulder's Interest: 18. Minimum Wage Reform - Reform the state's minimum wage law to ensure that the local governments that adopt increased minimum wage ordinances do not have to put unnecessary financial burdens on employers that pay their employees a tipped-minimum wage.

The city is requesting that this bill be amended to allow for local control or the minimum wage for tipped workers.
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News: Colorado lawmakers amend bill dealing with wages of tipped workers
Sponsors: S. Woodrow (D) | A. Valdez (D) / J. Amabile (D) | L. Daugherty (D)
Summary: Would allow local governments that have enacted higher local minimum wages to increase their tip credits higher than the current statutory requirement of $3.02. Local governments would be permitted to increase the tip credit up to any amount that does not result in a tipped employee making less than the state minimum wage minus $3.02, essentially making the local tipped minimum wage floor the same as the state’s in communities that choose to increase their tip credits.
Status: 6/3/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1209 Marijuana Regulation Streamline 
Subject: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY/MARIJUANA REGULATION
Boulder's Interest: The city opposes HB25-1209, unless amended to restore the requirements for video surveillance on how MJ is handled, stored and displayed. This is a safety concern.
Position: Actively Monitor
Calendar Notification: Wednesday, May 7 2025
CONSIDERATION OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT(S)
(1) in house calendar.
News:
Sponsors: W. Lindstedt (D) | J. Willford (D) / J. Gonzales (D) | R. Rodriguez (D)
Summary: Current law requires the division to adopt rules for security requirements for license holders. The security requirements include video recording requirements. The video recording requirements are changed to require, and must not exceed, video surveillance of the following: Each point of ingress and egress to the exterior of the licensed premises; Points of sale with coverage of the customer or patient and license holder completing the sale; Areas of the licensed premises where shipping and receiving of regulated marijuana occurs, test batches are collected, and regulated marijuana waste is destroyed; and Delivery vehicles surveillance. To obtain video surveillance footage, the division must demand the video surveillance footage in writing within at least 72 hours before the deadline provided to furnish the footage. The amount of marijuana that may be sold in a single transaction at a retail marijuana store is raised from one ounce to 2 ounces or its equivalent in retail marijuana products.
Status: 6/3/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1268 Utility On-Bill Repayment Program Financing 
Subject: CLIMATE ACTION/BUILDINGS
Boulder's Interest: 6 g) Customer Financing Programs – Create customer-facing financing options such as tariff-based on-bill financing.
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: J. Joseph (D) | M. Froelich (D) / K. Mullica (D) | F. Winter (D)
Summary: Requires the Colorado energy office (CEO) to establish a state utility an on-bill repayment program to help finance certain gas and electric utilities' on-bill repayment programs, which are programs through which energy efficiency measures, electrification measures, and energy upgrades installed at utility customers' premises are financed through loans that and repaid by the customers repay through their monthly utility bill payments. The bill requires Xcel to propose a plan to the public utilities commission for establishing or expanding an existing on-bill repayment program for the commission to review and approve, disapprove, or modify.
Status: 5/5/2025 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely

HB25-1272 Construction Defects & Middle Market Housing 
Subject: AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Boulder's Interest: 20.Reform the state’s construction defect law so as to increase the
supply of diverse housing options, including condominiums
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News: Colorado Senate committee approves bill aimed at boosting condo construction
Construction Defect Reform Advances in General Assembly with Broad Bipartisan Support
Sponsors: S. Bird (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) / J. Coleman (D) | D. Roberts (D)
Summary: Creates a multifamily construction incentive program for builders of attached housing with two or more units. The voluntary program intends to limit legal liability for builders who participate in exchange for meeting requirements intended to increase housing construction quality, all with the goal of promoting homeownership through increased construction of condominiums. Builders may participate in the program by providing a warranty that covers defects and damages at no cost to homeowners (the warranty lasts for varied amounts of time depending on the type of defect) and having a third-party inspection performed. The bill attempts to limit liability for builders who participate in the program by narrowing the circumstances in which construction defects claims may be pursued, allows construction professionals to offer to remedy claims, reducing the statute of limitations, providing additional affirmative defenses for construction professionals against defects claims, and increasing the threshold for a construction defect action by HOAs from a majority to 65%.
Status: 5/12/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1273 Residential Building Stair Modernization 
Subject: LOCAL CONTROL/AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Boulder's Interest: Principle: Preserve local control .
21. Provide increased support for low-income individuals and families to maintain, find and retain housing
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: Wednesday, May 7 2025
CONSIDERATION OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT(S)
(2) in house calendar.
News:
Sponsors: A. Boesenecker (D) | S. Woodrow (D) / M. Ball (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D)
Summary: Requires a municipality with a population of 100,000 or more that is served by a fire protection district or a fire department that is accredited by the commission on Fire Accreditation International on or before Dec. 1 , 2027, to adopt a building code to allow up to five stories of a multifamily residential building that meets specific conditions to be served by a single exit.
Status: 5/13/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1276 Court Actions Related to Failure to Appear in Court 
Subject: MUNICIPAL COURTS
Boulder's Interest: 41. Protect the institution and autonomy of the municipal courts while accepting necessary state oversight that ensures consistent protection of the constitutional rights of defendants
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: M. Soper (R) | S. Bird (D) / D. Roberts (D) | L. Frizell (R)
Summary: Gives courts discretion to require a cash or surety bond instead of a personal recognizance bond for an extremely narrow class of defendants—specifically those who repeatedly fail to appear in court.
Status: 4/8/2025 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely

HB25-1295 Food Truck Operations 
Subject: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Boulder's Interest: Protect local control
Position: Actively Oppose
Calendar Notification: Wednesday, May 7 2025
CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE
(15) in house calendar.
News:
Sponsors: M. Rutinel (D) | M. Lindsay (D) / D. Roberts (D) | J. Carson (R)
Summary: As amended, the bill outlines a process that food truck vendors must follow to get a fire inspection that will allow them to operate across jurisdictions without an additional inspection. These inspections must be conducted by certified inspectors and in compliance with the most recent International Fire Code or inspection guidelines issued by the Colorado Department of Public Safety. Food truck vendors will still need to check-in with the local fire department/district to determine if there are additional requirements before they can operate in a specific jurisdiction. The bill also makes some changes to how Denver’s food inspection program interacts with the other counties and vice versa. The bill no longer impacts local business licensing processes, food vendor permitting practices, or zoning requirements for food trucks.
Status: 5/20/2025 Governor Signed

HB25-1303 Funding for Motor Vehicle Collision Prevention 
Subject: TRANSPORTATION
Boulder's Interest: This directly further's one of council's four identified state priorities.
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: A. Boesenecker (D) | M. Lukens (D) / D. Roberts (D) | F. Winter (D)
Summary: As amended, this bill would have created a new enterprise in CDOT that will collect fees imposed on auto insurance policies issued in the state. 70% of the funding will go toward grants for local governments that will be used for VRU infrastructure and 30% will got to infrastructure to reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife. The implementation is on July 1, 2026.
Status: 4/29/2025 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely

SB25-003 Semiautomatic Firearms & Rapid-Fire Devices 
Subject: GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Boulder's Interest: 50(b) Assault Weapons – Ban assault weapons at the state or federal levels
Position: Actively Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News: Gov. Jared Polis signs sweeping gun law that adds requirements to buy certain semiautomatic weapons
Colorado lawmakers send Jared Polis bill that would ban manufacture, drastically limit sale of many semiautomatic guns
Sponsors: T. Sullivan (D) | J. Gonzales (D) / A. Boesenecker (D) | M. Froelich (D)
Summary: Bans the manufacture and drastically restricts the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms in Colorado.
Status: 4/10/2025 Governor Signed

SB25-014 Protecting the Freedom to Marry 
Subject:
Boulder's Interest: Principle: Equity, Racial Justice and Social Resilience – Dismantle institutional and systemic racism, prioritize voices, experiences, interests, and needs of communities that have been historically excluded, and reduce the vulnerabilities of groups most susceptible to natural or human caused stressors.
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: J. Danielson (D) / L. Garcia (D) | B. Titone (D)
Summary: Colorado statute states that a marriage is valid only if it is between one man and one woman. That provision has been unenforceable since the United States supreme court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015). The bill removes the provision.
Status: 4/7/2025 Governor Signed

SB25-030 Increase Transportation Mode Choice Reduce Emissions 
Subject: VISION ZERO
Boulder's Interest: 66(b) Establish mode choice targets for CDOT, metropolitan planning organizations, and transit providers in support of the city’s mode share goals.
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: F. Winter (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D) / M. Froelich (D) | W. Lindstedt (D)
Summary: Will allow CDOT and local governments to identify gaps in transit, bicycle, and pedestrian infrastructure in state and regional transportation systems.
Status: 5/13/2025 Governor Signed

SB25-045 Health-Care Payment System Analysis 
Subject: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Boulder's Interest: 49) Provide greater healthcare at a lower cost.
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: J. Marchman (D) / K. McCormick (D) | A. Boesenecker (D)
Summary: The bill requires the Colorado school of public health to analyze draft model legislation for implementing a single-payer, nonprofit, publicly financed, and privately delivered universal health-care payment system for Colorado that directly compensates providers (analysis).
Status: 5/14/2025 Governor Signed

SB25-047 Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law 
Subject: POLICING AND IMMIGRATION
Boulder's Interest:
Position: Actively Monitor
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: M. Baisley (R) / M. Brooks (R) | C. Richardson (R)
Summary:

In 2006, the general assembly passed Senate Bill 06-090, which:

  • Prohibited a local government from passing any ordinance or policy that would prohibit a police officer, local official, or local government employee from cooperating with federal officials with regard to the immigration status of a person within the state;
  • Required a peace officer who has probable cause to believe that a person is not legally present in the United States to report the person to the federal immigration and customs enforcement office;
  • Required each local government to provide notice to peace officers of the duty to report and to provide written confirmation of the notice and reporting statistics to the general assembly; and
  • Prohibited a local government that violates this provision from receiving any grants administered by the department of local affairs.

Senate Bill 06-090 was repealed in 2013. The bill recreates and reenacts Senate Bill 06-090.

Current law prohibits:

  • A person from being arrested while the person is present at a courthouse, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding, and provides remedies for a violation;
  • A probation officer or probation department employee from providing personal information about an individual to federal immigration authorities; and
  • State and local governmental entities from contracting with a private entity for immigration detention services or entering into agreements for immigration detention services.

The bill repeals each of these laws.


(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Status: 2/25/2025 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely

SB25-132 Spirituous Liquor Manufacturer Tastings Conducted 
Subject: PUBLIC HEALTH
Boulder's Interest: Under this bill, distillers, unlike any other manufacturer, would have been able to purchase alcohol wholesale and effectively operate a bar without obtaining a local liquor license as is required of all other taverns and bars.
Position: Actively Oppose
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: J. Marchman (D) | J. Gonzales (D) / M. Soper (R) | B. Titone (D)
Summary: Allows distilleries to purchase alcohol from wholesalers and open three bars without adhering to the local licensing process required of taverns and bars.
Status: 5/1/2025 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Postpone Indefinitely

SB25-161 Transit Reform 
Subject: TRANSPORTATION
Boulder's Interest: 69.Expedite Regional Transportation District transit service restoration and improve the organization’s functioning, oversight and governance. . . . More generally, the city will continue to support the recommendations included in the 2021 final report of the RTD Accountability Committee, specifically those that would improve governance, increase financial stability through improved reporting metrics and transparency, and increase services to all riders. The city will also support changes that result in greater local government collaboration and coordination in service planning using RTD's Subregional Service Councils
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: Wednesday, May 7 2025
357 Conference Committee on SB25-161
8:30 a.m. Room SCR
(1) in house calendar.
Wednesday, May 7 2025
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON SB25-161
8:30 AM SCR 357
(1) in senate calendar.
News:
Sponsors: F. Winter (D) | I. Jodeh (D) / W. Lindstedt (D) | M. Froelich (D)
Summary: Requires RTD to develop a 10-year strategic plan to expand and improve transit in the Front Range, aligning its goals with state climate goals and enhancing partnerships with local governments. Aims to improve transparency and accountability by creating public dashboards for riders to access information on transit performance, safety, and reliability. Also establishes an RTD Accountability Committee with fourteen voting members and one ex-officio nonvoting member to evaluate RTD’s governance structure, local and state agency representation, workforce retention, paratransit services, and opportunities for transit expansion, as well as make recommendations to the General Assembly.
Status: 5/13/2025 Governor Signed

SB25-305 Water Quality Permitting Efficiency 
Subject: WATER QUALIT Y
Boulder's Interest: POSITON # 72. Promote the efficient utilization and conservation of water, and preservation of water quality.
Position: Support
Calendar Notification: NOT ON CALENDAR
News:
Sponsors: B. Kirkmeyer (R) | J. Bridges (D) / S. Bird (D) | R. Taggart (R)
Summary: The bill aims to address the state’s extensive backlog of discharge permits, provide more transparency in permitting decisions and provide more funding for both drinking water and wastewater.
Status: 6/4/2025 Governor Signed