republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-178.md

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Bill	Water-wise Landscaping In Homeowners' Association Communities	Under current law, a unit owners' association (association) of a common interest community may not prohibit the use of xeriscape, nonvegetative turf grass, or drought-tolerant vegetative landscapes to provide ground covering to property for which a unit owner is responsible. There is, however, an exception authorizing an association to adopt and enforce design or aesthetic guidelines or rules that apply to nonvegetative turf grass and drought-tolerant vegetative landscapes or to regulate the type, number, and placement of drought-tolerant plantings and hardscapes that may be installed on a unit owner's property, on a limited common element, or on other property for which the unit owner is responsible.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-178	Colorado SB 23-178 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Karen McCormick Mandy Lindsay Perry Will Sonya Jaquez Lewis	10	17	4	2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fbfb793b-7755-4404-8def-4154b49b40ae	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-178	e6c5b5319987164a9362e12822dd24e18aff8694fccc38a20fdf28b2d601da7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-178 (2023A) — Water-wise Landscaping In Homeowners' Association Communities

Under current law, a unit owners' association (association) of a common interest community may not prohibit the use of xeriscape, nonvegetative turf grass, or drought-tolerant vegetative landscapes to provide ground covering to property for which a unit owner is responsible. There is, however, an exception authorizing an association to adopt and enforce design or aesthetic guidelines or rules that apply to nonvegetative turf grass and drought-tolerant vegetative landscapes or to regulate the type, number, and placement of drought-tolerant plantings and hardscapes that may be installed on a unit owner's property, on a limited common element, or on other property for which the unit owner is responsible.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/29/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/19/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/26/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 30–5 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 30–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Karen McCormick — primary (person)
• Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Sonya Jaquez Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government introduction
• 2023-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2023-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-03-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbfb793b-7755-4404-8def-4154b49b40ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).