In recent years, we’ve seen an uptick in community association related bills introduced by the Colorado legislature (with as many as 22 being tracked by the CAI Legislative Action Committee during the 2024 legislative session).
Below is a summary of legislation introduced during the 2026 legislative session that would directly impact community associations.
HB26-1007: Improve Customer Use Distributed Energy Resources
Introduced: 01/14/2026
Under Consideration: 03/05/2026
Sponsors: Representatives Lesley Smith & Rebekah Stewart, Senator Cathy Kipp
Bill Summary:
The bill defines, and creates requirements for, portable-scale solar generation devices. In addition, the bill prohibits a provider of retail electric service or wholesale energy from, among other things, requiring a customer to obtain the provider’s approval before installing or using a portable-scale solar generation device. The bill also prohibits a person from restricting, prohibiting, or imposing unreasonable conditions on the installation, use, or operation of a portable-scale solar generation device.
Under current law, a utility that is subject to regulation by the public utilities commission (commission) must allow for customer ownership and use of a meter collar adapter through the utility’s interconnection standards. The bill requires the commission, on or before December 31, 2026, to revise existing commission interconnection rules to explicitly require commission-regulated utilities to allow for customer ownership and use of meter collar adapters and to prohibit commission-regulated utilities from requiring a production meter as a condition of interconnection for a customer-sited distributed energy resource.
The bill requires municipally owned utilities and cooperative electric associations to also allow for customer ownership and use of meter collar adapters and prohibits municipally owned utilities and cooperative electric associations from requiring a production meter as a condition of interconnection for a customer-sited distributed energy resource.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
HB26-1099: Protect Financial Condition of Homeowners Association
Introduced: 02/03/2026
Under Consideration: 02/26/2026
Sponsors: Representatives Brianna Titone & Kenny Nguyen, Senators Chris Kolker & Janice Marchman
Bill Summary:
The bill requires the declarant of a new planned community or condominium, prior to the sale or conveyance of the first unit, to obtain a reserve study for the planned community or condominium, which study estimates the projected costs of maintaining, repairing, or replacing the common elements or property of the planned community or condominium over a 30-year period. The reserve study must be updated after each phase of building, with a final updated reserve study conducted for the planned community or condominium as built.
Until the transfer of control of the planned community or condominium to a unit owners’ association (association), a declarant must provide the reserve study to each prospective purchaser of a unit at least 24 hours prior to the sale or conveyance of the unit. After such transfer of control, the association must make the reserve study available to a unit owner upon reasonable notice.
At or before the transfer of control of the planned community or condominium to an association, a declarant must pay to the association 1.5% of the amount required to fully fund the reserves.
When an association changes association management companies, the former association management company shall, within 45 days, deliver to the new association management company or the association, at no charge to the association, all association property, records, money, accounts, information, and other items or information specified in the bill (property and records).
The former association management company shall pay the association $250 for each business day that it fails to timely return the association’s property and records and is liable for all interest and late fees on late payments made by the association due to the former association management company’s failure to turn over the property and records, as well as any other damages incurred by the association.
In a civil action to recover the property and records or the payments owed to the association for the former association management company’s failure to turn over the property and records, if the court finds that the former association management company’s violation was willful, the former association management company shall be liable for treble the association’s damages, plus attorney fees and court costs.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
HB26-1201: Homeowners’ Preferred Language Notice to Homeowners’ Association
Introduced: 02/11/2026
Postponed Indefinitely: 02/25/2026
Sponsors: Representative Ron Weinberg
Bill Summary:
Under current law, a unit owner in a homeowners’ association (HOA) may notify the HOA that the unit owner prefers to receive correspondence and notices from the HOA in a language other than English. The HOA is then required to send the unit owner correspondence and notices in both English and the preferred language.
The bill:
- Authorizes the HOA to require that the unit owner first demonstrate the need for correspondence and notices in the preferred language before sending correspondence and notices to the unit owner in the preferred language; and
- Removes the requirement that the HOA send correspondence and notices to the unit owner in both English and the unit owner’s preferred language, instead requiring that the HOA send the correspondence and notices only in the unit owner’s preferred language.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
SB26-049: Risk Model Use in Property Insurance Policies
Introduced: 01/27/2026
Under Consideration: 03/11/2026
Sponsors: Senators Marc Snyder & Lisa Frizell, Representative Sean Camacho
Bill Summary:
The bill adds individuals and homeowners’ associations as eligible recipients of assistance from the natural disaster mitigation enterprise fund. The bill also provides that natural disaster mitigation includes installation of “impact-resistant roofing materials” and other “property-specific mitigation action” and provides definitions of the same.
Additionally, the bill creates an income tax deduction for contributions to a catastrophe savings account (CSA), which is a savings account that a homeowner may use to cover the amount of insurance deductibles for claims stemming from hail, wildfire, or a catastrophic wind event, uninsured losses related to the same, and property-specific mitigation actions. The bill also exempts interest earned by CSAs from income tax.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
