republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2026a/hb-1218.md

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Bill	Clarifying Validity of Common Law Marriage	Senate Bill 25-014, enacted in 2025, repealed a provision of law that stated certain marriage formality requirements do not invalidate an otherwise valid common law marriage. The act restores that provision to clarify the validity of common law marriage.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2026A	HB 1218	Colorado HB 1218 (2026A)	bill	Children & Domestic Matters	enacted	B. Bradley C. Espenoza M. Ball M. Carter M. Catlin S. Luck	7	13	3	2026-02-17	2026-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/a4fda8d6-087e-408b-a35a-70bf31879a55	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1218	8b394e6087ae719a8a2fa59c782277e917052f40298b42b0612eec016c9ac359	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 1218 (2026A) — Clarifying Validity of Common Law Marriage

Senate Bill 25-014, enacted in 2025, repealed a provision of law that stated certain marriage formality requirements do not invalidate an otherwise valid common law marriage. The act restores that provision to clarify the validity of common law marriage.(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
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (committee substitute) — source
4. Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Rerevised (committee substitute) — source
6. Revised (committee substitute) — source
7. Signed Act (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 26-1218 to the Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
• BILL — pass (pass) · lower
• Refer House Bill 26-1218 to the Committee of the Whole. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Bradley — primary (person)
• C. Espenoza — primary (person)
• M. Ball — primary (person)
• M. Carter — primary (person)
• M. Catlin — primary (person)
• S. Luck — primary (person)
• J. Coleman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-05-05 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2026-04-06 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2026 - No Amendments
• 2026-05-01 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-01 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2026-05-01 Signed by the Speaker of the House passage
• 2026-04-07 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2026-04-06 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2026-03-31 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2026-03-12 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2026-03-09 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-06 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2026-03-05 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2026-02-17 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4fda8d6-087e-408b-a35a-70bf31879a55. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).