New Colorado laws taking effect July 1, 2026
20 laws take effect July 1, 2026.
Of the 927 bills enacted since 2025, 925 have an effective date and 2 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.
Updated Nov 1, 2026 at 8:26 p.m. EST.
Budget (6)
HB26-1075 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Child Welfare Prevention Services Funding
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
HB26-1356 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Repeal Local Accountability System
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
HB26-1368 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Eliminate Limited Gaming Fund Transfer
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
HB26-1389 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Grant Appropriation
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
HB26-1394 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Change Motorcycle Operator Fund to Annual Appropriation
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
HB26-1400 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Adjust Public Employees' Retirement Association's Allocations to Trust Funds
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Crime (4)
HB25-1133 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Requirements for Sale of Firearms Ammunition
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
HB26-1144 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Prohibit Three-Dimensional Printing Firearms & Components
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
HB26-1250 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Procedures Related to Civil Asset Forfeiture
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
SB26-015 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Commercial Sexual Activity with a Child Offenses
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Education (2)
Finance (2)
Civil Rights (1)
HB26-1322 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Civil Actions for Conversion Therapy Survivors
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Government (1)
HB26-1413 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Sick & Military Leave for Certain Public Servants
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Healthcare (1)
HB26-1328 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Medicaid Nonemergency Medical Transportation
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
Housing (1)
SB26-040 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Affordable Home Ownership Program
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Public Lands (1)
SB25-168 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Taxes (1)
HB26-1077 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
Average Market Rate of Unprocessed Retail Marijuana
How we got this date
Published by the legislature.
Enacted, but not yet dated (2)
These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect July 1, 2026 too; the record doesn't say.