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Second Regular Session
Seventy-fifth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
REENGROSSED
This Version Includes All Amendments
Adopted in the House of Introduction
LLS NO. 26-0608.01 Renee Leone x2695 HOUSE BILL 26-1071
House Committees Senate Committees
Transportation, Housing & Local Government
A BILL FOR AN ACT
CONCERNING ALLOWING A LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO LOCATE AN101
AUTOMATED VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM ON AN102
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY.103
Bill Summary
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
http://leg.colorado.gov.)
Current law allows the state to locate an automated vehicle
identification system (AVIS) on a highway that is part of the federal
interstate highway system but prohibits a county, c ity and c ounty, or
municipality (local government) from doing so. The bill authorizes a local
government to locate an AVIS on a highway that is part of the federal
HOUSE
3rd Reading Unamended
February 23, 2026
HOUSE
Amended 2nd Reading
February 19, 2026
HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Mauro and Duran, Froelich, Woodrow
SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Cutter,
Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.
Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law.
Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law.
interstate highway system.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:1
SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-110.5, amend2
(2) introductory portion, (2)(g)(I), and (2)(g)(V) as follows:3
42-4-110.5. Automated vehicle identification systems - school4
buses - exceptions to liability - penalty - contracting - limits on use of5
photographs and video - rules - legislative declaration - definitions.6
(2) A county, city and county, or municipality may adopt an7
ordinance authorizing the use of an automated vehicle identification8
system to detect violations A VIOLATION of A traffic regulations9
REGULATION adopted by the county, city and county, or municipality, or10
the state OR a county, a city and county, or a municipality may utilize an11
automated vehicle identification system to detect A traffic violations12
VIOLATION under state law, subject to the following conditions and13
limitations and, as applicable, the requirements for state highways set14
forth in and any rules adopted by the department of transportation15
pursuant to subsection (2.5) of this section:16
(g) (I) The state OR a county, a city and county, or a municipality17
shall not issue a notice of violation or civil penalty assessment notice for18
a violation detected using an automated vehicle identification system19
unless the violation occurred within a school zone, as defined in section20
42-4-615; within a residential neighborhood; within a maintenance,21
construction, or repair zone designated pursuant to section 42-4-614;22
along a street that borders a municipal park; or along a street OR STATE23
HIGHWAY or A portion of a street OR STATE HIGHWAY that a county, city24
and county, or municipality, by ordinance or by a resolution of its25
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governing body, designates as an automated vehicle identification1
corridor, on which designated corridor the county, city and county, or2
municipality may locate an automated vehicle identification system to3
detect violations A VIOLATION of a TRAFFIC REGULATION ADOPTED BY THE4
STATE OR A county, city and county, or municipal traffic regulation or a5
traffic violation under state law MUNICIPALITY.6
(V) (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2)(g)(I) of7
this section, The state, A CITY AND COUNTY, OR A MUNICIPALITY may8
locate an automated vehicle identification system on a STATE highway9
that is a part of the federal interstate highway system and may issue a10
notice of violation or a civil penalty assessment notice for a traffic11
violation under state law VIOLATION OF A TRAFFIC REGULATION ADOPTED12
BY THE STATE, A CITY AND COUNTY, OR A MUNICIPALITY detected using13
the automated vehicle identification system.14
(B) A county, a city and county, or a municipality shall not locate15
an automated vehicle identification system or create an automated vehicle16
identification corridor on any highway that is a part of the federal17
interstate highway system.18
SECTION 2. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act19
takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the20
ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August21
12, 2026, if adjournment sine die is on May 13, 2026); except that, if a22
referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the23
state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act24
within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect25
unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in26
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November 2026 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the1
official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.2
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