All Roll Calls
Yes: 281 • No: 177
ColoradoHB26-12762026 Regular SessionHouse
Protect Safety of Individuals Who Are Immigrants
Sponsored By: Elizabeth Velasco (Democratic), Iman Jodeh (Democratic), Lorena Garcia (Democratic), Mike Weissman (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Immigration
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6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.
Funding for detention checks and legal help
The law provides $107,283 from Colorado's general fund for environmental health programs in state budget year 2026–27. The funding assumes one additional full-time-equivalent position in the Division of Environmental Health and Sustainability. The law creates an Immigration Facility Inspection and Detention Cash Fund for facility payments supporting inspection work. The health department can spend that fund's money when lawmakers approve funding. The treasurer must send covered detention-related civil penalty receipts to the Immigration Legal Defense Fund; no collection amount or individual payment is set.
Residents get notice of immigration record subpoenas
Colorado's public safety department must establish online posting of unsealed federal immigration subpoenas within 30 days of this section taking effect. State agencies and local governments must send copies within 72 hours after fulfilling these subpoenas. The department must post copies with personal information removed within 24 hours of receipt and notify legislative judiciary committees within 72 hours. Agencies must notify affected Colorado residents at their last-known address within 72 hours after fulfillment; mailed notice is allowed. These disclosure duties do not apply when a federal judge or magistrate orders secrecy.
Detention access limits and officer training
Officers and detention staff cannot admit federal immigration authorities to nonpublic areas without a federal judge's or magistrate's access warrant. A judge-issued writ for transfer to or from federal custody also permits access. Colorado's peace officer training board must set standards for training on compliance with the law's immigration rules. Officers certified as of July 1, 2026, must finish that training before July 1, 2027. The training completion requirement is repealed on July 1, 2028.
More inspections and costs for immigration detention
Colorado must inspect covered immigration detention facilities yearly and without warning at least once every three months. Inspections check food, drinking water, living conditions, and care; facilities must provide needed access to staff and records. Facilities pay inspection and examination costs. Refusing an inspection, examination, or covered disease investigation can bring license loss and penalties up to $50,000 per refusal. County and district health agencies can also inspect these facilities, but those inspections are optional.
New safeguards and rules for immigration detention
Colorado's health department can set new care and safety rules for facilities holding noncitizens for civil immigration proceedings. It can require yearly reports covering pregnancy care, chronic conditions, disabilities, dietary needs, temperatures, lawyers, and worship spaces. It can require minors to stay apart from unrelated adults and accessible medical and mental health professionals on site at all times. Covered medical staff include advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and physicians; mental health staff must meet licensing or certification rules, excluding unlicensed psychotherapists. Facilities first used for this detention on or after July 1, 2026, can be required to pay for and pass an environmental study. Harmful impacts found by a required study must be corrected before operation; breaking department requirements can bring license loss or penalties up to $50,000 per violation. Facilities run directly by the federal government are exempt.
Privacy safeguards and penalties for Colorado agencies
The attorney general's office must publish its personal information policy by September 1, 2026, aligned with state privacy law. The policy must cover legally required disclosures and allow release to federal immigration authorities only with a federal judge's or magistrate's subpoena, warrant, or order. It must bar releases based on administrative or other nonjudicial warrants. It must name a responsible employee, guide communications, and require records of the federal official's name, employer, badge number, and legal documents. The policy does not override the federal law identified in the act, 8 U.S.C. 1373. A state agency or local government faces penalties up to $50,000 when an employee intentionally breaks covered privacy protections and the employer intentionally supports the violation or fails to adopt prevention policies. The attorney general can enforce this employer penalty.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Elizabeth Velasco
Democratic • House
Iman Jodeh
Democratic • Senate
Lorena Garcia
Democratic • House
Mike Weissman
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Andrew Boesenecker
Democratic • House
Cecelia Espenoza
Democratic • House
Eliza Hamrick
Democratic • House
Jennifer Bacon
Democratic • House
Junie Joseph
Democratic • House
Julie McCluskie
Democratic • House
Jacque Phillips
Democratic • House
Naquetta Ricks
Democratic • House
Regina English
Democratic • House
Sean Camacho
Democratic • House
Tisha Mauro
Democratic • House
Sen. A. Benavidez
Affiliation unavailable
Cathy Kipp
Democratic • Senate
Chris Kolker
Democratic • Senate
Dylan Roberts
Democratic • Senate
Judy Amabile
Democratic • Senate
Jessie Danielson
Democratic • Senate
Julie Gonzales
Democratic • Senate
Janice Marchman
Democratic • Senate
Kyle Mullica
Democratic • Senate
Katie Wallace
Democratic • Senate
Lisa Cutter
Democratic • Senate
Lindsey Daugherty
Democratic • Senate
Matt Ball
Democratic • Senate
Marc Snyder
Democratic • Senate
Nick Hinrichsen
Democratic • Senate
Robert Rodriguez
Democratic • Senate
Tony Exum
Democratic • Senate
Tom Sullivan
Democratic • Senate
William Lindstedt
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/12/2026
Senate amendments: Repass
Yes: 42 • No: 22
House vote • 5/12/2026
Senate amendments: Concur
Yes: 45 • No: 19
Senate vote • 5/11/2026
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 23 • No: 12
Senate vote • 5/11/2026
Third reading: Amend (l.028)
Yes: 23 • No: 12
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Refer House Bill 26-1276, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 4 • No: 3
Senate vote • 5/4/2026
Refer House Bill 26-1276, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations.
Yes: 5 • No: 2
House vote • 4/27/2026
Third reading: Bill
Yes: 42 • No: 21
House vote • 4/24/2026
Misc: Limit
Yes: 39 • No: 24
House vote • 4/24/2026
Committee of the whole: Amd (h.001)
Yes: 19 • No: 40
House vote • 4/24/2026
Refer House Bill 26-1276, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Yes: 8 • No: 3
House vote • 4/13/2026
Refer House Bill 26-1276, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations.
Yes: 7 • No: 4
House vote • 3/17/2026
Refer House Bill 26-1276, as amended, to the Committee on Finance.
Yes: 6 • No: 5
House vote • 3/17/2026
Adopt amendment L.006 (Attachment I)
Yes: 6 • No: 5
House vote • 3/17/2026
Adopt amendment L.007 (Attachment H)
Yes: 6 • No: 3
House vote • 3/17/2026
Adopt amendment L.008 (Attachment F)
Yes: 6 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
6/4/2026HouseSigned by the Speaker of the House
6/3/2026HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
6/3/2026SenateSent to the Governor
6/3/2026HouseHouse Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
5/12/2026HouseSenate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor
5/11/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
5/8/2026SenateSenate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
5/6/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
5/6/2026SenateSenate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
5/4/2026SenateIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
4/29/2026SenateHouse Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
4/27/2026HouseHouse Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
4/24/2026HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
4/24/2026HouseHouse Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
4/13/2026HouseHouse Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Finance
3/17/2026HouseIntroduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
2/19/2026House
Bill Text
Engrossed
Final Act
House Appropriations Preamend
House Finance Preamend
House Judiciary Preamend
Introduced
Reengrossed
Rerevised
Revised
Senate Appropriations Preamend
Senate Judiciary Preamend
Signed Act
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