Landlord Legislative Coalition

Legislative Wrap Up with William Mutch

May 31, 2022 by CLLC

CLLC Members and Supporters:

I’m proud to report we have had a successful 2022 legislative session with our second-year as an active and organized coalition, with a full-time advocacy presence at the Colorado State Capitol. In contrast to last year’s unprecedented amount of legislation around landlord-tenant relationships, things have returned to a more normal pace this year.

As a result, we turned our attention to engaging in two major issues – a new Fair Housing enforcement division within Colorado’s Attorney General’s Office and working against the rent control provision in a piece of mobile homes legislation, along with removing a troublesome fair housing amendment from a criminal records bill.

Thanks to your continued support and engagement in the legislative process, we succeeded in adding much-needed guardrails and legal process to the Fair Housing legislation, and the rent control provision was defeated!

Your CLLC volunteer leadership, attorneys, and members of our Public Policy Committee made the difference again by contributing many hours to the legislative process from stakeholder meetings, testimony, reviewing legislation, and working with our members and NARPM chapters around the state. We also appreciate it when our leadership team and our professional lobbyist are invited to address your local meetings so we can share this important information with you first-hand.

In addition to these main areas of focus, we also reviewed, tracked, and took positions on a long-list of other bills dealing with the legal process around eviction records, affordable housing grant programs — utilizing American Rescue Plan Act dollars from the Federal level — bills involving HOAs, and military/veteran status in housing.

Next year, we will be working with a task force of property managers and attorneys with the goal of proposing legislation that would improve procedures for landlords, while promoting our industry best-practices. We look forward to keeping you informed as that process moves forward over the summer/fall.

This is also a key election year in Colorado where all of our statewide offices are up for election, as well as the full Colorado House of Representatives and half of the Colorado Senate. With leadership from our lobbying firm, we will be closely tracking these elections and meeting with both legislators and legislative candidate as we prepared for the 2023 legislative session beginning next January.

Even though there are only 120-days in the legislative session, our advocacy program is year-around and like your businesses, our involvement in the legislative process never takes a break. Please see specific highlights of our main legislative accomplishments below with narrative around the provisions we influenced.

Thank you again for your involvement and support!

William Mutch

Colorado Landlord Legislative Coalition Lobbyist

SB22-099 Sealing Criminal Records
SB-099 as introduced included burdensome fair housing provisions that would have been problematic for landlords and property managers dealing with sealed records. As we reviewed this legislation, we worked with the sponsor and the first Committee of reference and were successful in having that section removed through a Committee Amendment.

HB22-1082 Establish Fair Housing Unit Department of Law
Prior to the commencement of the 2022 legislative session, the Colorado Attorney General’s office worked with our lobbyist to have the CLLC included as key stakeholders in this legislation. Our leadership participated in these meetings and provided feedback – including ensuring the new Housing Unit would not proactively conduct investigations without a complaint, and also that investigations be based upon a pattern of behavior to limit frivolous investigations. After much work with the Attorney General’s legislative team, the CLLC emerged as the lead housing organization coordinating amendments – including successful efforts to not have the bill broadened to include complaints from non-profits and to include complaints from other areas such as late fees. Special thanks to Attorney Mr. Pete Muccio for his volunteer efforts on our behalf.

HB22-1287 Protections For Mobile Home Park Residents
On another legislative success story, we were again included at-the-table for initial stakeholder meetings on the Mobile Home Park legislation. We loudly voiced our main concern around a provision limiting rent increases on mobile home lots correctly identifying this as “rent control” and what would be the first step to expanding this provision beyond mobile home parks to all residential rented & leased real estate. The CLLC joined other major housing organizations in activating our membership and NARPM affiliates with calls-to-action resulting in robust committee testimony against this provision. The rent control provision was ultimately removed during a late Friday evening debate by the full Colorado House of Representatives where the Governor moved against this provision. Against the backdrop of opposition to rent control from the Governor this provision was removed and a compromise version of the bill was ultimately adopted.

We are including a full-list of the bills we tracked this session, with just the title and their final status, so you can see the hard-work from our advocacy program as our lobbyist works to identify all priority housing related bills for our Committee to analyze and review, providing direction to our lobbyist at the Capitol for work to support, oppose, or amend with regular interaction from our members and leadership in the advocacy process.

2022 Colorado General Assembly
Legislative Tracking Report
MUTCH GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
COLORADO LANDLORD LEGISLATIVE COALITION (CLLC)

HB22-1006 Child Care Center Property Tax Exemption
Sponsors: D. Roberts (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) / K. Donovan (D) | J. Smallwood (R)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by the Speaker of the House

HB22-1036 Improvement Location Certificate Real Estate Forms
Sponsors: M. Snyder (D) | M. Soper (R) / P. Lee (D)
Status: 4/11/2022 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Postpone Indefinitely

HB22-1040 Home Owners’ Reasonable Access to Common Areas
Sponsors: J. Rich (R) | E. Hooton (D) / T. Story (D) | C. Holbert (R)
Status: 4/12/2022 Governor Signed

HB22-1051 Mod Affordable Housing Tax Credit
Sponsors: S. Bird (D) | H. McKean (R) / R. Zenzinger (D) | D. Hisey (R)
Status: 5/9/2022 Senate Third Reading Passed – No Amendments

HB22-1071 Damage in Class Actions Consumer Protection Act
Sponsors: S. Woodrow (D) / R. Rodriguez (D)
Status: 3/21/2022 Governor Signed

HB22-1082 Establish Fair Housing Unit Department of Law
Sponsors: E. Hooton (D) | J. Bacon (D) / J. Gonzales (D)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by Governor

HB22-1102 Veterans And Military Status in Fair Housing
Sponsors: D. Ortiz (D) | T. Sullivan (D) / B. Gardner (R) | N. Hinrichsen
Status: 4/4/2022 Governor Signed

HB22-1127 Income Tax Deduction For Rent
Sponsors: D. Woog (R)
Status: 3/24/2022 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely

HB22-1137 Homeowners’ Association Board Accountability And Transparency
Sponsors: N. Ricks (D) | M. Bradfield (R) / J. Gonzales (D) | J. Coleman (D)
Status: 5/2/2022 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered – No Amendments

HB22-1218 Resource Efficiency Buildings Elecric Vehicles
Sponsors: A. Valdez (D) / F. Winter (D) | K. Priola (R)
Status: 5/10/2022 House Considered Senate Amendments – Result was to Concur – Repass

HB22-1239 Regulate Community Association Managers
Sponsors: B. Titone (D)
Status: 3/21/2022 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely

HB22-1282 The Innovative Housing Incentive Program
Sponsors: K. Mullica (D) | M. Lynch (R) / J. Bridges (D) | R. Woodward (R)
Status: 5/9/2022 Signed by the President of the Senate

HB22-1287 Protections For Mobile Home Park Residents
Sponsors: A. Boesenecker (D) | E. Hooton (D) / F. Winter (D)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by the President of the Senate

HB22-1362 Building Greenhouse Gas Emmissions
Sponsors: T. Bernett (D) | A. Valdez (D) / C. Hansen (D) | F. Winter (D)
Status: 5/11/2022 House Considered Senate Amendments – Result was to Concur – Repass

HB22-1416 Property Tax Administrative Procedures
Sponsors: D. Esgar (D) | P. Neville (R) / C. Kolker (D) | B. Rankin (R)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by Governor

SB22-019 Access To Suppressed Court Eviction Records
Sponsors: F. Winter (D) / S. Woodrow (D)
Status: 3/15/2022 Governor Signed

SB22-051 Policies To Reduce Emissions From Built Environment
Sponsors: C. Hansen (D) / E. Sirota (D)
Status: 5/17/2022 Sent to the Governor

SB22-059 Home Owners’ Association Voting Proxy Limitations
Sponsors: C. Holbert (R) / E. Hooton (D) | K. Ransom (R)
Status: 3/21/2022 Governor Signed

SB22-060 Limit Home Owners’ Association Fee Increase For Common Elements
Sponsors: J. Bridges (D)
Status: 2/15/2022 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely

SB22-063 Property Ownership Fairness Act
Sponsors: L. Liston (R) / A. Pico (R)
Status: 3/1/2022 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely

SB22-072 Grants To Incentivize Home Use For Renters
Sponsors: P. Lundeen (R)
Status: 3/8/2022 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely

SB22-086 Homestead Exemption And Consumer Dbet Protection
Sponsors: F. Winter (D) | J. Gonzales (D) / M. Gray (D) | S. Gonzales-Gutierrez (D)
Status: 4/7/2022 Governor Signed

SB22-099 Sealing Criminal Records
Sponsors: D. Hisey (R) | R. Rodriguez (D) / K. Tipper (D) | C. Larson (R)
Status: 5/11/2022 Sent to the Governor

SB22-146 Middle Income Access Program Expansion
Sponsors: R. Zenzinger (D) | D. Hisey (R) / M. Snyder (D) | M. Catlin (R)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by Governor

SB22-157 Information Sharing For Consumer Protection Investigation
Sponsors: C. Holbert (R) | S. Fenberg (D) / E. Hooton (D) | K. Van Winkle (R)
Status: 5/6/2022 Governor Signed

SB22-159 Revolving Loan Fund Invest Affordbale Housing
Sponsors: J. Bridges (D) | R. Zenzinger (D) / D. Ortiz (D) | P. Will (R)
Status: 5/18/2022 Signed by the Speaker of the House

SB22-160 Loan Program Resident-owned Communities
Sponsors: J. Gonzales (D) | N. Hinrichsen / A. Boesenecker (D) | M. Lindsay
Status: 5/17/2022 Signed by Governor

SB22-231 Programs To Develop Housing Support Services
Sponsors: P. Lee (D) / J. Amabile (D)
Status: 4/28/2022 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely

SB22-232 Creation Of Colorado Workforce Housing Trust Authority
Sponsors: J. Bridges (D) | D. Moreno (D) / L. Herod (D) | T. Bernett (D)
Status: 5/11/2022 Senate Considered House Amendments – Result was to Concur – Repass

SB22-238 2023 And 2024 Property Tax
Sponsors: C. Hansen (D) | B. Rankin (R) / M. Weissman (D) | P. Neville (R)
Status: 5/16/2022 Signed by Governor