Welcome to the last full week of the 2026 session of the Colorado General Assembly.

The state’s 100 lawmakers now have 10 days, including today and the weekend, to finish their work for the year. The nearing deadline means the Capitol will be even more abuzz than usual as lawmakers scramble to pass — or use the clock to kill — legislation. 

The fast approach of sine die (Capitol speak for last day) also means schedules will be even more tentative than usual, as deals get cut and chamber leaders try to squeeze in debate and procedural steps wherever they can.

Today

The House is scheduled to take a formal vote on a set of bills that would divorce Colorado’s tax code from some of the recent changes made by Congress to the federal tax code. In effect, they would end some state tax cuts for corporations. 

Backers hope to steer those tax collections to a fund that would mirror Colorado’s Family Affordability Tax Credit. That tax credit steered tax dollars collected above the revenue cap set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights to low-income families — and in its first year, the program was credited with cutting childhood poverty in the state by more than a third. The state’s dire budget situation, caused in part by those federal tax changes, has left the future of the FATC program uncertain.

House Bills 1221, 1222, 1223 and 1289 will still need to move through the Senate before arriving at Gov. Jared Polis’ desk.

Also today, the House Finance Committee is set to hear Senate Bill 134, a measure that would limit so-called “swipe fees” on credit card transactions. That measure narrowly passed the full Senate last week. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hear Senate Bill 176, dubbed the “No Kings Act.” That bill would allow Coloradans to sue federal officials — including immigration agents — for alleged constitutional violations. It ran into early, staunch opposition from state district attorneys.

That committee is also set to hear House Bill 1276, which seeks to further limit Colorado officials’ ability to work with federal immigration officials.

Tuesday

The much-awaited bill to update Colorado’s artificial intelligence regulations is set to have its first hearing in the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee on Tuesday afternoon. 

The proposal would overhaul antidiscrimination AI protections that were passed into law in 2024, but have not yet gone into effect amid a wave of opposition from Polis and interest groups. Prior attempts to update the 2024 law have been some of the most controversial efforts in the legislature, leading to high drama at both the end of the 2025 regular session and earning a place in the governor’s call for a special session last summer.

Also Tuesday, the House Transportation, Housing and Local Government Committee will hear House Bill 1430, which seeks to neutralize proposed ballot Initiative 175. That ballot initiative, backed by the construction industry, would require the state to pay for more road projects; Democratic leadership in the legislature contends that it would, in effect, gut other state services, such as education and healthcare, by mandating more funding for roads.

Wednesday

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee will hear House Bill 1335, which would require public and private colleges to stock abortion pills in their campus pharmacies. That measure already cleared the House.

That committee is also set to hear House Bill 1195, which would prevent psychologists, counselors, social workers, therapists and others from using AI to provide direct therapy to clients, to make treatment plans, or to detect emotional or mental states. That bill has also already cleared the House.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hear House Bill 1281, a measure that would lower the severity of charges, from first-degree murder to second-degree, for a killing committed via “extreme indifference.”

First-degree murder charges carry the penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The second-degree murder charge, officially classified as a class 2 felony with an extraordinary risk of harm, carries an average prison sentence of 17 years, according to nonpartisan legislative analysts.

The bill would also make it so that prosecutors could consider how a person was driving a motor vehicle when they consider charging someone with criminally negligent homicide. Under the bill, a driver who kills someone while texting could face the same charge.

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