republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/hb-23-1255.md

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Bill	Regulating Local Housing Growth Restrictions	The act preempts any existing local governmental entity housing growth restriction that explicitly limits either the growth of the population in the local governmental entity's jurisdiction or the number of development permits or building permit applications for residential development or the residential component of any mixed use development submitted to, reviewed by, approved by, or issued by a governmental entity for any calendar or fiscal year and forbids the enactment or enforcement of any such future local housing growth restriction unless the governmental entity has experienced a disaster emergency, has developed or amended land use plans or land use laws covering residential development or the residential component of a mixed-use development, or is extending or acquiring public infrastructure, public services, or water resources. A governmental entity that experiences one of these events may implement a growth cap for up to 24 months in a 5-year period.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	HB 23-1255	Colorado HB 23-1255 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Julie Gonzales Ruby Dickson William Lindstedt	10	15	4	2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e7ce2c3b-50f5-4c6f-8740-78a6d0555e59	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1255	e41add1a0309a1e83a6616ffb00a3393a063b2914bcf857c1b641f2a7ac018c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 23-1255 (2023A) — Regulating Local Housing Growth Restrictions

The act preempts any existing local governmental entity housing growth restriction that explicitly limits either the growth of the population in the local governmental entity's jurisdiction or the number of development permits or building permit applications for residential development or the residential component of any mixed use development submitted to, reviewed by, approved by, or issued by a governmental entity for any calendar or fiscal year and forbids the enactment or enforcement of any such future local housing growth restriction unless the governmental entity has experienced a disaster emergency, has developed or amended land use plans or land use laws covering residential development or the residential component of a mixed-use development, or is extending or acquiring public infrastructure, public services, or water resources. A governmental entity that experiences one of these events may implement a growth cap for up to 24 months in a 5-year period.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/21/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/24/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/04/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 43–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–15 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 38–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Ruby Dickson — primary (person)
• William Lindstedt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-11T06:00:00+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
• 2023-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government & Housing introduction
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7ce2c3b-50f5-4c6f-8740-78a6d0555e59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).