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Second Regular Session
Seventy-fifth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
REREVISED
This Version Includes All Amendments
Adopted in the Second House
LLS NO. 26-0578.01 Jacob Bennington x2371 HOUSE BILL 26-1095
House Committees Senate Committees
Transportation, Housing & Local Government Local Government & Housing
A BILL FOR AN ACT
CONCERNING UNPAID ONLINE ACCESS TO PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLISHED101
IN LEGAL NEWSPAPERS.102
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 requires a county or municipality to publish legal
notices in a physical print newspaper. The bill gives a county or
municipality discretion to publish legal notices online on the newspaper's
website instead. Legal notices published online must be free to access and
cannot be kept behind a paywall or subscription.
SENATE
3rd Reading Unamended
March 31, 2026
SENATE
Amended 2nd Reading
March 30, 2026
HOUSE
3rd Reading Unamended
March 11, 2026
HOUSE
Amended 2nd Reading
March 10, 2026
HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Suckla and Nguyen, Duran, Hamrick, Richardson, Slaugh, Titone
SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Pelton R. and Lindstedt, Carson, Coleman, Gonzales J., Marchman, Snyder
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.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:1
SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-70-103, amend2
(5); and add (6) as follows:3
24-70-103. Requisites of legal newspaper.4
(5) When any legal notice is required by law to be published in5
any newspaper, the newspaper publishing the notice shall, at no additional6
cost to the person or entity placi ng the no tice, place th e notice on a7
statewide website established and maintained by an organization8
representing a majority of Colorado newspapers as a repository for the9
notices. THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC NOTICE WEBSITE MUST INCLUDE A LIST OF10
NEWSPAPERS THAT SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION (1) OF11
THIS SECTION, IDENTIFIED BY COUNTY.12
(6) W HEN ANY LEGAL NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE13
PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION , THE14
NEWSPAPER SHALL ALSO MAKE THE NOTICE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE15
WITHOUT CHARGE, AND THE NEWSPAPER SHALL NOT REQUIRE PAYMENT OR16
SUBSCRIPTION TO ITS PHYSICAL OR DIGITAL PRINT IN ORDER TO VIEW THE17
NOTICE. A NEWSPAPER SATISFIES THE REQUIREMENT OF THIS SUBSECTION18
(6) EITHER BY POSTING THE FULL TEXT OF THE NOTICE ON ITS WEBSITE OR19
PROVIDING A LINK ON ITS WEBSITE TO A LOCATION WHERE THE FULL TEXT20
OF THE NOTICE IS AVAILABLE, SUCH AS THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC NOTICE21
WEBSITE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (5) OF THIS SECTION.22
SECTION 2. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act23
takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the24
ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August25
12, 2026, if adjournment sine die is on May 13, 2026); except that, if a26
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referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the1
state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act2
within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect3
unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in4
November 2026 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the5
official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.6
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