---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safe Housing for Residential Tenants"
description: "The act modifies existing warranty of habitability laws by clarifying actions that constitute a breach of the warranty of habitability (breach) and procedures for both landlords and tenants when a warranty of habitability claim (claim) is alleged by the tenant. Updates to existing warranty of habitability laws include:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-094"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-094 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Gonzales", "Mandy Lindsay", "Meg Froelich", "Tony Exum"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5ada45d-43aa-4c81-a752-654bdd46fcd9"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-094"
source_hash: "7adbc9aa7962ec464a512a1e416180094e171faed2546500172f1c06dc379663"
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 24-094 (2024A) — Safe Housing for Residential Tenants

The act modifies existing warranty of habitability laws by clarifying actions that constitute a breach of the warranty of habitability (breach) and procedures for both landlords and tenants when a warranty of habitability claim (claim) is alleged by the tenant. Updates to existing warranty of habitability laws include:

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_sb094_h_thl_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/24/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/28/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_s_lgh_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/11/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_094_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_094_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- REPASS — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
- Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
- Tony Exum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2024-04-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2024-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/06/2024 - No Amendments
- **2024-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** 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/b5ada45d-43aa-4c81-a752-654bdd46fcd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).