republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1120.md

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Bill	Eviction Protections For Residential Tenants	The act requires a landlord and residential tenant to participate in mandatory mediation prior to commencing an eviction action if the residential tenant receives supplemental security income, federal social security disability insurance, or cash assistance through the Colorado works program (collectively, "cash assistance"). The landlord and residential tenant do not have to participate in mediation if the residential tenant did not disclose or declined to disclose in writing to the landlord that the residential tenant receives cash assistance, the complainant is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers opportunities for mediation to residential tenants, or the complainant is a landlord with 5 or fewer single-family rental homes and no more than 5 total rental units. Failure to comply with mandatory mediation is an affirmative defense.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1120	Colorado HB 23-1120 (2023A)	bill		enacted	David Ortiz Faith Winter Junie Joseph Rhonda Fields	11	19	4	2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/060d96ac-7fcc-4a54-b3d7-2dee72e3c4c6	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1120	a3239e827262d4d98a43e889768b829ad2f85e075343b21b002b374089db4c06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1120 (2023A) — Eviction Protections For Residential Tenants

The act requires a landlord and residential tenant to participate in mandatory mediation prior to commencing an eviction action if the residential tenant receives supplemental security income, federal social security disability insurance, or cash assistance through the Colorado works program (collectively, "cash assistance"). The landlord and residential tenant do not have to participate in mediation if the residential tenant did not disclose or declined to disclose in writing to the landlord that the residential tenant receives cash assistance, the complainant is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers opportunities for mediation to residential tenants, or the complainant is a landlord with 5 or fewer single-family rental homes and no more than 5 total rental units. Failure to comply with mandatory mediation is an affirmative defense.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/27/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/13/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 44–20 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 47–16 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 45–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Junie Joseph — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing introduction
• 2023-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-01-27T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/060d96ac-7fcc-4a54-b3d7-2dee72e3c4c6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).