Legislation

2026 Highlights

HB26-1263 Conversational AI Service Operator Requirements

This bill defines conversational AI and regulates how conversational AI platforms are allowed to engage with users under the age of 18. Specifically, it prohibits rewards for continued engagement, generating sexual content, or developing emotional dependence, while also providing disclosure, tools for parents or guardians to manage privacy settings, a protocol for prompts regarding self-harm, and preventing the service from claiming to be the equivalent of a licensed professional.

HB26-1110 Vulnerable Adult Financial Exploitation Banking

Designed to protect the savings of older adults from scammers, this bill authorizes qualified individuals at banks or credit unions to place holds on financial transactions when reasonable suspicion of financial exploitation is present. Qualified individuals at banks or credit unions may also notify law enforcement, adult protective services, or associated third parties when reasonable suspicion of financial exploitation is present. Consequently, the institution or individual may delay dismemberment until a resolution is found.

HB26-1003 Small Business Recovery Modifications

This bill expands upon protections for small businesses that were made during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is accomplished by creating a fund that compensates small businesses for their operations in the hope of helping them to pay off loans or other expenses.

HB26-1081 Optimize Colorado Electric Transmission System

This bill aims to modernize Colorado’s electric transmission infrastructure to support grid reliability, affordability, and clean energy integration through better use of advanced transmission technologies and targeted updates to existing planning processes.

SB26-047 Firefighter Collective Bargaining

Our emergency responders are crucial parts of our communities, especially our firefighters. In an effort to expand the collective bargaining rights of Colorado’s firefighters, SB26-047 modifies the definition of a general election to change when a question may be added to a ballot. In this particular case, a ballot question can be submitted to voters to allow firefighters to collectively bargain with their public employers.

2025 Highlights

HB25-1105 PERA True-up of DPS Division Employer Contribution

Educators and school staff have signaled that they need help. This bill is part of an ongoing effort to provide more support and stand up for our educators in our community. This true-up puts an estimated $2,500 in the pockets of Denver Public School teachers and staff without affecting current PERA retirees or the overall financial health of PERA.

HB25-1238 Gun Show Requirements

This bill requires a gun show promoter to prepare a security plan and submit it to a local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the gun show. It also requires promoters to obtain liability insurance for the gun show and install cameras to cover gun show spaces and parking lots. This common-sense gun reform policy is an important step to prevent illegal and unlicensed firearm sales and thefts in Colorado.

HB25-1132 Military Family Behavioral Health Grant Program

In my career in the Air Force, I have seen firsthand how military members, veterans, and their families struggle to receive the mental health treatment they require. HB25-1132 uses Prop KK funds to expand the military family behavioral health grant program to provide grants to local nonprofit organizations to establish or expand community behavioral health grant programs for military members, veterans, and their families.

HB25-1172 Children’s Mental Health Facility

Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF), which treat Colorado’s youth who require the most acute psychiatric care, should be safe and secure for their patients. HB25-1172 allows the Colorado Department of Human Services to maintain a secured fence around the perimeter of the planned PRTF campus in Fort Logan.

HB25B-1004 Sale of Tax Credits

In order to fill the $1.2 billion budget gap caused by President Trump’s infamous Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1), the General Assembly came together for a special session. Under HB25B-1004, a limited amount of tax credits will become available for auction to insurance companies and C-corps, with revenue from these sales being directed to the General Fund. This is projected to raise at least $100 million, a critical step toward closing Colorado’s substantial budget gap.

SB25-133 Voidable Transactions

SB25-133 proposed changes to the Colorado Voidable Transactions Act that would better align with uniform law regarding voidable transactions in other states, as well as update some of the definitions and terminology used in the Act. This effort is important because it modernizes Colorado’s approach to handling questionable asset transfers and ensures that legal processes are clear and consistent with national standards.

SB25-300 Revisor’s Bill

The annual Revisor’s Bill amends, repeals, and reconstructs various statutory provisions of law that are obsolete, imperfect, or inoperative.

Cosponsorships

Cosponsorships signify a policymaker’s strong support for a bill, despite not having proposed the bill themselves. I cosponsored more than 284 bills and resolutions since taking office, including the Healthy School Meals for All Program, School Finance, Freedom from Intimidation in Elections, Protect Access to Gender-Affirming Health Care, and Insurance Coverage for Breast Cancer Examinations acts.