The act establishes and clarifies financial protections for mobile home park residents. The act requires a landlord of a mobile home park to notify residents when the landlord is temporarily prohibited from increasing rent. Under current law, a landlord is required to send notice to residents when the landlord intends to sell the mobile home park. The act adds to the information that must be included in the notice that the landlord sends to residents of the park to include a statement that the landlord must provide additional information and documentation to a home owner upon request by the home owner, including:The basis of the purchase price, such as aggregate rental data, rent projections, and recent appraisals of the property;Disclosure of the age of major infrastructure in the mobile home park;Documentation of any infrastructure inspections, maintenance, and repair services from the previous 3 years;The most up-to-date rent roll and any documentation related to rents, charges, outstanding balances, and the vacancy rate; andThe operating expenses and income for the park from the previous 3 years. The act requires that, for a potential sale of a mobile home park that is a portfolio sale including real property or structures located outside of the mobile home park, the price, terms, or conditions of the proposed sale, including for the real property or structures located outside of the park, must be made available to the home owners of the park, even if the home owners submit an offer to purchase only the park. The act requires the landlord and any potential buyer to conduct the sale of the mobile home park at arms-length and in good faith. The act establishes certain parameters related to the registration fee that must be paid by a landlord of a mobile home park and limits the amount that the landlord may charge each resident to cover the registration fee at $17.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Rep. Gretchen Rydin
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The act requires the department of local affairs, as part of its SMART Act hearing in January of 2027, to submit and present a proposal for the development of a statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution. The proposal must include a plan that sets forth a timeline, an estimated budget, and a process for developing and implementing a statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution. The proposal must set forth the following components that must be included in the statewide strategy on homelessness prevention and resolution:Identification of gaps and barriers that impede access to operational services for individuals experiencing homelessness;Identification of state agency-provided housing resources, including utilization rates;Recommendations for collaboration between state and local partners to facilitate homelessness response;Recommendations for funding and policies that could be implemented at the state level to support homelessness prevention and resolution;Recommendations proposed in coordination with continuum of care organizations to improve the implementation of the homeless management information system, data reporting, and coordinated entry systems; and Updates on regional navigation campuses. When developing the proposal, the department shall seek and incorporate feedback from a diverse array of stakeholders. The act creates a new type of special district, a multijurisdictional homelessness response authority (authority), which may be created when any combination of local governments enter into an intergovernmental agreement with one another to establish an authority. An authority must:Be used by the contracting local governments to reduce and prevent homelessness; andHave boundaries that contain the entirety of all the contracting local governments, but nothing more. An authority has several discretionary powers that relate to its ability to coordinate and plan with departments and organizations to reduce and prevent homelessness, including the power to provide for the levy of sales or sales and use taxes by the contracting local governments. If the intergovernmental agreement that creates an authority provides for the levy of a sales or sales and use tax by the contracting local governments within the boundaries of the authority:Each contracting local government shall submit to its registered electors a ballot question that relates to the tax and that requires any new tax revenue approved through the ballot question to be used solely for the planning, coordination, and implementation of regional strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness;The intergovernmental agreement must provide for a case in which the electors in some but not all of the contracting local governments approve the collection of the sales or sales and use tax at the general election; andThe intergovernmental agreement must provide that all or part of the taxes levied are distributed to the authority. An authority may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the purposes of planning, coordinating, and implementing regional strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness, may issue revenue or general obligation bonds, and may pledge its revenue and revenue-raising powers for the payment of such bonds. The act allows a county to designate a portion of documentary filing fees, which are collected for filing documents associated with the grant or conveyance of real property, to be transferred to the county government or a housing authority for the purpose of developing, preserving, or acquiring affordable housing that:Is within the jurisdiction of the county government or housing authority;Is aligned with demonstrated community needs; andWill be available to individuals experiencing homelessness.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes the communication services for people with disabilities enterprise board (board), in consultation with the division for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind (division), to enter into a contract with a third-party researcher on or before July 1, 2027, to study sign language interpretation services for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind community in the state. If the board enters into a contract with a third-party researcher, the act establishes certain interview, data-collection, and comparative research requirements for the study and requires the third-party researcher to report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the board and the division on or before July 1, 2028.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires an investor-owned utility (utility) to establish a percentage-of-income payment plan program (PIPP program) to assist income-qualified residential utility customers with utility costs. An income-qualified utility customer is eligible for the PIPP program if the customer meets the income eligibility criteria, lives in the service area of the utility, and either submits an application to the utility or is referred by another income-eligible assistance program offered by the department of human services, the Colorado energy office, or another energy assistance program approved by the public utilities commission (commission). A utility must approve or deny a customer's application for participation in the PIPP program within 30 days. The utility bill for a customer enrolled in a utility's PIPP program is capped at a specific percentage of the customer's household income, typically ranging from 2% to 6% of the customer's household income depending on the heating source provided and the size of the utility. The difference between a customer's actual utility bill and their PIPP program bill is covered by a fixed credit, which can be an up-front annual credit or an equal monthly credit to the customer's utility bill. The act also establishes arrearage credits for customers in the PIPP program, which are applied to eliminate a customer's preexisting debt prior to the customer's enrollment in the PIPP program. A utility's PIPP program is funded through a 'PIPP charge' itemized on all customer bills. The amount of the PIPP charge is established by the commission by rule for the utility. A utility must submit an annual report related to the utility's PIPP program to the commission. The report must include the following information:The PIPP charge revenue collected by the utility;Any amount contributed to the PIPP program by the utility from shareholder profits;A calculation of administrative costs associated with implementing and administering the PIPP program;The amount of fixed monthly or annual credits provided to customers in the utility's PIPP program; andThe amount of arrearage credits provided to customers in the PIPP program. The act exempts products fueled by propane and products used exclusively for installation in manufactured homes from emissions standards adopted by the Colorado department of public health and environment related to heating and water heating appliances until January 1, 2031. The act extends the deadline by which money in the 'Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act' cash fund may be appropriated from July 1, 2028, until July 1, 2031.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the department of health care policy and financing and the behavioral health administration to publish on each department's website an easily accessible list of secure transportation providers that have contracts with managed care entities and behavioral health administrative services organizations, as applicable.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the Colorado homeless contribution tax credit (credit) may only be claimed through state income tax year 2026. The act amends the credit to allow taxpayers to claim the credit through state income tax year 2030.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows the division of fire prevention and control to seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations to implement the requirements of the firefighter behavioral health benefits program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act changes the repeal date of the employment support and job retention services program (program) in the division of employment and training (division) in the department of labor and employment (department) from September 1, 2029, to July 1, 2026. The state treasurer is required to transfer all unexpended and unencumbered money in the employment support and job retention services program cash fund (fund) to the general fund on June 30, 2026. Pursuant to section 3 of the act, the appropriations made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2026-27 state fiscal year to the department for use by the division are adjusted as follows:The general fund appropriation for the fund is decreased by $250,000; andThe reappropriated funds appropriation from the fund is decreased by $250,000. A reduction of an appropriation in the annual general appropriation act for the 2026-27 state fiscal year is not required pursuant to section 3 of the act if one of the following conditions is satisfied:The amount of the general fund appropriation to the department for use by the division for the fund is less than $250,000;The amount of the reappropriated funds appropriation from the fund to the department for use by the division for the program is less than $250,000; orThe annual general appropriation act for the 2026-27 state fiscal year does not include an appropriation to the department for use by the division for the fund or the program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In current law, a person who is a member of the Colorado National Guard who is accepted for enrollment at a designated institution of higher education (member) has all their tuition costs waived. All tuition waiver costs are currently funded by the state from money in the Colorado National Guard tuition fund. The act changes the funding mechanism of the Colorado National Guard tuition waiver program by requiring each designated institution of higher education to waive the remaining balance of a member's tuition cost in excess of the amount of any private, state, or federal financial assistance received. The act requires the department of military and veterans affairs to reimburse each institution for 50% of the cost of tuition waived by the institution and requires the general assembly to appropriate money to the Colorado National Guard tuition fund to cover the reimbursement.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes a local government or a special district (local government) to enter into an agreement with one or more entities for the purpose of providing the local government with service from a thermal energy network. A local government that is authorized by law to issue bonds may issue bonds for the purpose of financing thermal energy infrastructure, interconnections, or customer connections within the jurisdiction of the local government. The act increases the net electric generating capacity of a community geothermal garden from 5 megawatts to 25 megawatts. The act requires the Colorado energy and carbon management commission (commission) and the Colorado geological survey to collect data and information related to geological resources in the state. The commission shall make recommendations to encourage safe and effective development of geothermal resources and report those recommendations to the general assembly on or before November 15, 2026. The act requires investor-owned electric utilities (utilities) to identify small-scale geothermal projects and large-scale geothermal projects (geothermal projects). The utility must solicit proposals for the development of small-scale geothermal projects of up to 25 megawatts of net electric generating capacity and large-scale geothermal projects that are greater than 25 megawatts of net electric generating capacity. The utility shall submit applications for the development of the geothermal projects to the public utilities commission if the utility receives a bid in response to the request for proposals. The public utilities commission must review the application and approve, conditionally approve, deny, or modify the application within 120 days after receiving the application.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)