# Colorado HB26-1113: Modifications to Elections Colorado HB26-1113, Modifications to Elections, is a 2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Emily Sirota (Democratic), Jenny Willford (Democratic), Katie Wallace (Democratic) and 1 others; status signed, last action 2026-06-01 (Governor Signed); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-16). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1113-2026A - As of: 2026-10-16 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Colorado HB26-1113 - State: Colorado - Session: 2026 Regular Session - Title: Modifications to Elections - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2026-02-03 - Last action: 2026-06-01, Governor Signed - Sponsors: Emily Sirota (Democratic), Jenny Willford (Democratic), Katie Wallace (Democratic), Mike Weissman (Democratic) - Cosponsors: 38 - Subjects: Elections & Redistricting - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 13 (245 yes, 205 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 28 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More voting access during correctional transitions: benefit, medium. People under Department of Corrections transitional status can register and vote, including those living in state-run facilities. People serving a felony sentence in confinement remain ineligible. A sheriff’s designee must arrange at least one in-person voting day for eligible confined voters durin… - Voters gain registration safeguards and corrections: benefit, medium. The law ends the process for one registered voter to challenge another person’s county registration, including related hearings and appeals. County clerks must provide printed affidavits to correct errors or unlawful changes or removal of party affiliation. Colorado’s statewide voter system must fu… - Voters get more accepted identification options: benefit, medium. Voters can use a valid U.S. passport card or a Division of Youth Corrections identification card. Written correspondence from a county sheriff or designee also counts if it states the voter is confined in a county jail or detention facility. - College students get easier voting access: benefit, low. Colleges using online course registration must offer students a link to the Secretary of State’s voter registration website. Counties must place ballot drop boxes on qualifying campuses for presidential primaries and November coordinated elections. The enrollment threshold falls from 2,000 to 1,000… - Earlier ballots and faster signature notices: benefit, low. Officials must mail ballots to active registered voters 29 to 25 days before elections, moving the window seven days earlier. If day 29 is a weekend, state legal holiday, or federal postal holiday, mailing can occur the preceding Friday. Separate federal rules apply to specified military and overse… - Faster notices for missing voter identification: benefit, low. This rule covers returned mail ballots missing a required copy of voter identification. If the clerk misses the notice deadline of 2 days after Election Day, the letter needs faster delivery. The clerk must use overnight mail or hand delivery. For military and overseas voters, the clerk must use th… - Petition signers can use mailing addresses: benefit, low. Election officials can accept a petition signature with a mailing address instead of a residence address. The official must find the signer’s statewide voter record and confirm that the signer was eligible to sign. - Petition signers provide fewer address details: benefit, low. Voters signing candidate-nomination, initiative, or referendum petitions no longer need to list their county. They must still provide their street address, city or town, and signing date. - Voters gain polling-place flexibility and protection: benefit, low. You can bring printed or written materials of your choice to a voter service and polling center while marking your ballot. The voter-interference offense covers conduct within 100 feet of buildings containing polling or drop-off locations. It also covers interference within 100 feet of a drop box v… - Young people gain election participation options: benefit, low. Preregistered voters who turn 18 by the next election can update their information online during the preceding 120 days. Students can qualify as election judges at age 15, down from 16, without a junior-or-senior grade requirement. They must be in good standing and attend secondary school or be hom… - Colleges must send students voting information: benefit, low. Covered colleges with online course registration must email each enrolled student voter eligibility and registration information. Emails go out during the first full week of fall semester and the last full week of spring semester. Election details must also arrive 15 days and 1 day before Election… - Paid voting leave for Colorado workers: benefit, low. Eligible Colorado voters who work can take up to 2 paid hours to vote on days polling centers are open. Employers cannot fire or penalize them, or reduce their usual wages; hourly workers receive their regular pay. Workers must ask before the day they need leave. Employers choose the hours but must… - Ballot counting gets backups and checks: benefit, low. The Secretary of State can authorize manual counting after consulting the election official when major problems make electronic counting impracticable. The standard no longer requires electronic counting to be impossible. Before certifying results, canvass boards must confirm that ballots have been… - Four judges check hand-counted ballots: benefit, low. When a permitted or required hand count is used, four election judges must count each ballot. This applies during initial vote counting, post-election audits, and recounts. One judge reads each mark aloud; another watches and helps determine voter intent when needed. Two judges record votes separat… - Public polling plans and wait reports: benefit, low. The Secretary of State must release specified polling-center plan information by August 1. Counties must record Election Day waits at every voter service and polling center and report results within 30 days. If any reported wait exceeds 1 hour, the county must submit a detailed operational report w… - State cancels long-inactive voter registrations: cost, medium. The Secretary of State, rather than the county clerk, must cancel qualifying inactive registrations. Cancellation applies when a voter has not updated the record, answered a confirmation card, or voted during two consecutive general elections after becoming inactive. The Secretary of State can requ… - Candidates face stricter certification and filing: cost, low. Candidates must meet office qualifications by the start of the term and swear that they will meet them. Officials cannot certify candidates lacking required proof of registration, residence, or property ownership, or failing objectively verifiable qualifications. Assembly designation certificates a… - Counties face earlier election planning deadlines: cost, low. County clerks must send proposed plans for covered mail-ballot elections to the Secretary of State at least 120 days before voting. That replaces the 110-day deadline; the 90-day deadline for nonpartisan elections stays unchanged. Each county clerk must also set office hours that follow the electio… - Counties must acquire electronic voting systems: cost, low. Counties with at least 1,000 active voters as of the last general election must adopt electronic or electromechanical voting systems. The clerk must consult county commissioners, and the county board must acquire and maintain the system. The clerk oversees related staff, contractors, and vendors un… - Missed deadlines leave party nominations empty: cost, low. A political party must fill a nomination vacancy by the legal deadline that applies to that nomination. If the party misses that deadline, the vacancy stays unfilled. - Counties share statewide voting license costs: mixed, low. If possible, the Secretary of State must negotiate one annual statewide license for a certified instant-runoff voting system. The Department of State Cash Fund pays for the license. Counties using that license must repay a share of its cost. Each share uses registered active voter counts in partici… - Election records rules change voter privacy: mixed, low. Election surveillance rules include systems that record continuously when motion is detected. Before public ballot inspection, officials do not have to hide identifying marks or messages voluntarily added by voters. Those messages can remain visible for public review, but voters who add them have l… - House vacancies get election and nomination deadlines: mixed, low. The governor must set a U.S. House vacancy election within seven days. Vacancies arising 90 to 150 days before a scheduled statewide presidential primary, primary, or coordinated election join that election; otherwise, voting occurs 90 to 120 days after the vacancy. Separate vacancy elections follo… - Petitions gain deadlines but delayed inspection: mixed, low. The Secretary of State must decide initiative or referendum petition sufficiency within 60 calendar days after filing. For an upcoming ballot, the deadline is 30 calendar days after the filing deadline. A missed decision deadline makes the petition sufficient. Petitions can remain unavailable for p… - Post-primary replacements get fallback appointment rules: mixed, low. These rules cover nomination vacancies from the day after the primary through the first day general-election ballots can be mailed. Committees must mail meeting notices within 10 calendar days and certify a selection within 20 calendar days. If they fail, the state party chair must appoint a qualif… - Presidential successors gain rules and penalties: mixed, low. When an accepted presidential or vice-presidential nominee dies or withdraws under party rules before electors meet, elector votes refer to the party’s successor. Voting for that successor under this rule does not violate the cited state voting requirement. Specified false-instrument and forgery ru… - Primary candidate replacements face tight deadlines: mixed, low. For covered major-party nomination vacancies, committees must mail meeting notices within 10 calendar days. If a committee misses its selection deadline, the state party chair must appoint a qualified same-party candidate within seven days. In the covered pre-primary vacancy window, designation and… - Vacancy replacements face party and election limits: mixed, low. The governor’s temporary U.S. Senate appointee must belong to the former senator’s party and serves until an election fills the vacancy. Under the covered vacancy rules, most replacement officials serve until the next scheduled general election; nonpartisan board appointments are excluded. This inc… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Emily Sirota (Democratic), House - Sponsor: Jenny Willford (Democratic), House - Sponsor: Katie Wallace (Democratic), Senate - Sponsor: Mike Weissman (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Andrew Boesenecker (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Amy Paschal (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Brianna Titone (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Eliza Hamrick (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Elizabeth Velasco (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jennifer Bacon (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jamie Jackson (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Junie Joseph (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Javier Mabrey (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Julie McCluskie (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jacque Phillips (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Kyle Brown (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Karen McCormick (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Kenny Nguyen (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Lorena Garcia (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Lori Goldstein (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Monica Duran (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Meg Froelich (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Mandy Lindsay (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Meghan Lukens (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Matthew Martinez (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Manny Rutinel (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Naquetta Ricks (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Rebekah Stewart (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Sean Camacho (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Steven Woodrow (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Tammy Story (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Yara Zokaie (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Sen. A. Benavidez - Cosponsor: Cathy Kipp (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Iman Jodeh (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: James Coleman (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Jessie Danielson (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Julie Gonzales (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Janice Marchman (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Marc Snyder (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Tony Exum (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Tom Sullivan (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-05-07 | House | Senate amendments: Repass | pass | 42 | 22 | | | 2026-05-07 | House | Senate amendments: Concur | pass | 42 | 22 | | | 2026-05-04 | Senate | Third reading: Bill | pass | 23 | 12 | | | 2026-05-04 | Senate | Third reading: Amend (l.050) | pass | 33 | 2 | | | 2026-05-01 | Senate | Committee of the whole: Cow * (s.001) | fail | 11 | 23 | | | 2026-04-24 | Senate | Refer House Bill 26-1113, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 4 | 3 | | | 2026-04-09 | Senate | Adopt amendment L.023 (Attachment B). | pass | 3 | 2 | | | 2026-04-09 | Senate | Refer House Bill 26-1113, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations. | pass | 3 | 2 | | | 2026-03-03 | House | Third reading: Bill | pass | 41 | 22 | | | 2026-03-02 | House | Committee of the whole: Amd (h.002) | fail | 8 | 50 | | | 2026-03-02 | House | Committee of the whole: Amd (h.001) | fail | 18 | 40 | | | 2026-02-23 | House | Adopt amendment L.012 (Attachment M). | pass | 9 | 2 | | | 2026-02-23 | House | Refer House Bill 26-1113, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. | pass | 8 | 3 | | ## Actions (17) - 2026-06-01: Governor Signed (House) - 2026-05-29: Signed by the Speaker of the House (House) - 2026-05-29: Signed by the President of the Senate (Senate) - 2026-05-29: Sent to the Governor (House) - 2026-05-07: House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass (House) - 2026-05-05: House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily (House) - 2026-05-04: Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor (Senate) - 2026-05-01: Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor (Senate) - 2026-04-28: Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments (Senate) - 2026-04-24: Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole (Senate) - 2026-04-09: Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations (Senate) - 2026-03-06: Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs (Senate) - 2026-03-03: House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (House) - 2026-03-02: House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor (House) - 2026-02-26: House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments (House) - 2026-02-23: House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole (House) - 2026-02-03: Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs (House) ## Bill text - Engrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112768/download) - Final Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/116789/download) - House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Preamend: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112599/download) - Introduced: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/111225/download) - Reengrossed: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112805/download) - Rerevised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115689/download) - Revised: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115590/download) - Senate Appropriations Preamend: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115235/download) - Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Preamend: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114378/download) - Signed Act: [PDF](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/117147/download) ## Related bills - HB26-1250: Procedures Related to Civil Asset Forfeiture (signed) - HB26-1298: Background Checks for Child Welfare Placements (signed) - HB26-1414: Medical Record Requests (signed) - SB26-155: Increase Access Homeowner's Insurance Enterprise (signed) - HB26-1429: County Administration Public Assistance Programs (signed) - HB26-1430: Transportation Funding Adjustments (signed) ## Sources - [Engrossed (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112768/download) - [Final Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/116789/download) - [House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Preamend (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112599/download) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/111225/download) - [Reengrossed (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/112805/download) - [Rerevised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115689/download) - [Revised (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115590/download) - [Senate Appropriations Preamend (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115235/download) - [Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Preamend (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114378/download) - [Signed Act (PDF)](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/117147/download) ## Related - [HB26-1250: Procedures Related to Civil Asset Forfeiture](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1250-2026A) - [HB26-1298: Background Checks for Child Welfare Placements](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1298-2026A) - [HB26-1414: Medical Record Requests](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1414-2026A) - [SB26-155: Increase Access Homeowner's Insurance Enterprise](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-SB26-155-2026A) - [HB26-1429: County Administration Public Assistance Programs](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1429-2026A) - [HB26-1430: Transportation Funding Adjustments](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CO-HB26-1430-2026A) - 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