A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against tax for disaster mitigation expenditures, this bill allows individual and business taxpayers a new tax credit for 25% of qualified disaster mitigation expenditures. The credit is limited to $2,500 and $5,000 for individual taxpayers and business taxpayers respectively.

As you may be aware, changes were implemented by the Colorado legislature to the Collection Processes, which will go in effect on October 1, 2025. This new bill revised a number of requirements and sections from an Association’s Collection Policy.

The bill requires the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to conduct a study concerning the market for property and casualty insurance policies issued by insurers to: Unit owners' associations (associations) of common interest communities; and Owners of hotels and lodging facilities (owners).

The bill prohibits a unit owners' association from prohibiting the operation of a home-based business in a common interest community. The operation of a home-based business must still comply with any applicable and reasonable unit owners' association rules or regulations related to architectural control…

The bill generally prohibits covenants and other restrictions that disallow the installation, use, or maintenance of fire-hardened building materials in residential real property, including in common interest communities. However, the bill allows a unit owners' association of a common interest community to…

Removes posting on unit requirement; removed first class mail notification for delinquency – now includes Certified Mail; telephone call, text message, and email if provided by homeowner. Must use two if available. Allows HOA to charge owner for costs of notices by certified mail; payment plan language cut out of bill.

Concerning increasing the number of accessory dwelling units, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. Section 1 of the bill creates a series of requirements related to accessory dwelling units. The bill establishes unique requirements for subject jurisdictions and for…

The bill requires a driver of tow trucks to undergo a fingerprint-based criminal history record check (check). If the check produces a criminal history that the public utilities commission (commission) determines is inappropriate to drive a tow truck, the driver will not be permitted to drive the towtruck.

House Bill 22-1137, enacted in 2022, imposed a number of procedural requirements on unit owners' associations (HOAs) with respect to collecting payments from unit owners with delinquent accounts. The bill changes some of these procedural requirements by removing a requirement that an HOA…

In common interest communities for real property, current law allows a unit owners' association (association) to require, without starting a legal proceeding, a unit owner to reimburse the association for collection costs, attorney fees, or other costs resulting from the owner failing to…

The bill establishes a category of local government: A transit-oriented community. As defined in the bill, a transit-oriented community is either a local government that is entirely within a metropolitan planning organization; has a population of 4,000 or more; and contains at least…

Current law exempts certain small cooperatives and limited-expense planned communities from most of the requirements of the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act", which governs the conduct of homeowners' associations (associations). A cooperative or planned community may…

Concerning declarations that form common interest communities under the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act". Under the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act" (CCIOA), every common interest community must be formed by the execution and recording of a declaration.