---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Executive Officer Disclosures"
description: "Existing law specifies that an individual must be a certified death investigator or forensic pathologist to be eligible to hold the office of county coroner in a county with a population greater than 150,000. The act changes this requirement to apply in a county with a population greater than 300,000. The act also requires a county coroner to disclose, on the coroner's website, their financial interest in businesses regulated by their office, including a mortuary, funeral home, crematory, embalming service, or other death-care business. A coroner who has disclosed a financial interest shall not participate in an official action that would directly and specifically affect the business in which the coroner has a financial interest. The act does not prohibit a coroner or candidate for coroner from operating a death-care business.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2026A"
identifier: "SB 105"
citation: "Colorado SB 105 (2026A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government", "Professions & Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Martinez", "N. Hinrichsen", "T. Mauro"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2026-02-11"
last_action: "2026-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f64e36cf-47e6-45a5-9b11-4ee0cad465af"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-105"
source_hash: "e553cb05bff7b103b39a390b63bfb05d10ce5177f22fc912b66d58872d171d9e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 105 (2026A) — County Executive Officer Disclosures

Existing law specifies that an individual must be a certified death investigator or forensic pathologist to be eligible to hold the office of county coroner in a county with a population greater than 150,000. The act changes this requirement to apply in a county with a population greater than 300,000. The act also requires a county coroner to disclose, on the coroner's website, their financial interest in businesses regulated by their office, including a mortuary, funeral home, crematory, embalming service, or other death-care business. A coroner who has disclosed a financial interest shall not participate in an official action that would directly and specifically affect the business in which the coroner has a financial interest. The act does not prohibit a coroner or candidate for coroner from operating a death-care business.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/111730/download)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113403/download)
3. **Final Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114941/download)
4. **Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/113444/download)
5. **Rerevised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114794/download)
6. **Revised** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/114565/download)
7. **Signed Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/115750/download)

## Votes

- Adopt amendment L.002 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.004 (Attachment B) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.005 (Attachment C) — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Refer Senate Bill 26-105, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Adopt amendment L.003 (Attachment A) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Refer Senate Bill 26-105, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **pass** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Martinez — primary (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — primary (person)
- T. Mauro — primary (person)
- A. Benavidez — cosponsor (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- W. Lindstedt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-05-04** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-23** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-04-17** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2026-04-16** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-15** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2026-04-14** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2026-04-02** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2026-03-31** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-19** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`
- **2026-03-18** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f64e36cf-47e6-45a5-9b11-4ee0cad465af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).