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| Bill | Armed Services Member Motor Vehicle Taxes & Fees | Colorado law exempts the owner of a motor vehicle who is a member of the United States armed forces (member) from motor vehicle registration fees and sets the specific ownership tax at $1 while the member is serving outside the United States. This applies to personal motor vehicles and intrastate trucks, truck tractors, trailers, and semitrailers used to transport property. To qualify, the member must show the military order or evidence acceptable to the department of revenue (department) demonstrating that the member served outside the United States. The act repeals a requirement that the member sign an affidavit to qualify for the $1 specific ownership fee or to be exempt from the motor vehicle fee. Colorado law exempts members from paying late fees for failing to renew a registration for a vehicle if the member was serving outside the state when the registration period expired. The act sets the requirement to qualify for a late fee exception by requiring the member to show the military order or evidence acceptable to the department demonstrating that the member served outside of the state. The department will notify the member that the vehicle or motor vehicle must not be driven during deployment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) | us/states/co | Colorado General Assembly | 2026A | HB 1200 | Colorado HB 1200 (2026A) |
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7 | 13 | 3 | 2026-02-11 | 2026-04-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/9b0ae4e1-ec28-4b0e-ba91-356920723b58 | https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1200 | e31d0826fcb13e470a61990e083a2fc5b0c7dfd5c98ebc68fec10f38574e6d3c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Colorado HB 1200 (2026A) — Armed Services Member Motor Vehicle Taxes & Fees
Colorado law exempts the owner of a motor vehicle who is a member of the United States armed forces (member) from motor vehicle registration fees and sets the specific ownership tax at $1 while the member is serving outside the United States. This applies to personal motor vehicles and intrastate trucks, truck tractors, trailers, and semitrailers used to transport property. To qualify, the member must show the military order or evidence acceptable to the department of revenue (department) demonstrating that the member served outside the United States. The act repeals a requirement that the member sign an affidavit to qualify for the $1 specific ownership fee or to be exempt from the motor vehicle fee. Colorado law exempts members from paying late fees for failing to renew a registration for a vehicle if the member was serving outside the state when the registration period expired. The act sets the requirement to qualify for a late fee exception by requiring the member to show the military order or evidence acceptable to the department demonstrating that the member served outside of the state. The department will notify the member that the vehicle or motor vehicle must not be driven during deployment.(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.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Final Act (committee substitute) — source
- Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Rerevised (committee substitute) — source
- Revised (committee substitute) — source
- Signed Act (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- BILL — pass (pass) · lower
- Refer House Bill 26-1200 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · lower
- Refer House Bill 26-1200 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- B. Pelton — primary (person)
- L. Garcia Sander — primary (person)
- M. Martinez — primary (person)
- A. Boesenecker — cosponsor (person)
- B. Kirkmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- B. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- B. Titone — cosponsor (person)
- C. Clifford — cosponsor (person)
- C. Espenoza — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kipp — cosponsor (person)
- C. Kolker — cosponsor (person)
- C. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- C. Simpson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- D. Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- D. Woog — cosponsor (person)
- E. Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- G. Rydin — cosponsor (person)
- I. Jodeh — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- J. Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Marchman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rich — cosponsor (person)
- K. Mullica — cosponsor (person)
- K. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- L. Cutter — cosponsor (person)
- L. Daugherty — cosponsor (person)
- L. Frizell — cosponsor (person)
- L. Goldstein — cosponsor (person)
- L. Liston — cosponsor (person)
- L. Zamora Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- M. Baisley — cosponsor (person)
- M. Ball — cosponsor (person)
- M. Catlin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Duran — cosponsor (person)
- M. Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- M. Rutinel — cosponsor (person)
- M. Snyder — cosponsor (person)
- M. Soper — cosponsor (person)
- M. Weissman — cosponsor (person)
- N. Hinrichsen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Keltie — cosponsor (person)
- R. Pelton — cosponsor (person)
- R. Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- R. Weinberg — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bottoms — cosponsor (person)
- S. Bright — cosponsor (person)
- T. Exum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Mauro — cosponsor (person)
- T. Story — cosponsor (person)
- T. Winter — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-04-20 Governor Signed
executive-signature - 2026-04-16 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-04-16 Signed by the President of the Senate
passage - 2026-04-16 Signed by the Speaker of the House
passage - 2026-03-30 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-03-27 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments
reading-2 - 2026-03-24 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
committee-passage, referral-committee - 2026-03-17 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
introduction - 2026-03-12 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2026-03-11 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- 2026-03-10 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- 2026-03-05 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
committee-passage, referral-committee - 2026-02-11 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
introduction
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b0ae4e1-ec28-4b0e-ba91-356920723b58. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).