RogataEvery bill, laid before the people.

HB26-1342 · Bill · 2026 Regular Session · Colorado

Negligently Luring Bears

Concerning knowing behavior that lures bears.

Official status: Became Law

4 proposed amendments

Prime sponsors

Progress (from the official record)

Official summary

Official text — shown in English exactly as published by the official source. The official text controls.

Under Colorado law, a person is guilty of a crime for placing food or edible waste in the open to lure a wild bear. The act: Lowers the mental state requirement from intention to knowingly placing the food or edible waste in the open in circumstances where there is a reasonable probability of luring a wild bear; Repeals the requirement that a first offense be given a warning; and Raises the fine for a third or subsequent offense from $2,000 to $5,000. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Status timeline

Every recorded action on HB26-1342, oldest first
DateLocationAction
03/27/2026HouseIntroduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources
04/13/2026HouseHouse Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/15/2026HouseHouse Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
04/21/2026HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
04/22/2026HouseHouse Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
04/23/2026SenateIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources
04/30/2026SenateSenate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/05/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
05/06/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
05/07/2026SenateSenate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments
05/08/2026SenateSenate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
05/19/2026HouseSigned by the Speaker of the House
05/19/2026SenateSigned by the President of the Senate
05/19/2026GovernorSent to the Governor
05/27/2026GovernorGovernor Signed

Recorded votes

Proposed amendments (4 proposed amendments)

Amendments proposed to HB26-1342, oldest first
AmendmentCommittee / floor hearingOfferedDispositionOfficial document
L.001Committee amendment — Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources (House)04/13/2026PassedView official document
L.004
Sponsor: Representative Lukens		Floor amendment — Second Reading (House)04/21/2026PassedView official document
L.005
Sponsor: Representative Johnson		Floor amendment — Second Reading (House)04/21/2026LostView official document
L.008
Sponsor: Senator Simpson		Floor amendment — Second Reading (Senate)05/07/2026LostView official document

Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of

Full text

Official record

View HB26-1342 on leg.colorado.gov

Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of

Verify this record

This record carries a fingerprint of its official content, computed by our data pipeline with the SHA-256 algorithm — a real computation over the record itself, not a badge we award ourselves. Anyone can recompute it from the official source and compare.

SHA-256 fingerprint

18bba454942a63e694b757f45f424a7d88b5ade66f269142e8e89b21aad443c1

What it covers: the record exactly as the official source publishes it — its identifiers (bill number, session, jurisdiction), its official title and long title, its official summary, its status, its sponsors in published order, every recorded action, every recorded vote, and the link to each official text version — assembled in a fixed canonical form described on the How this data works page.

Computed 2026-11-06 · Algorithm: SHA-256 · Canonical form: rogata-canonical-v1

Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of

The fingerprint does not cover our retrieval date (the “Data as of” stamp in the source line): re-fetching unchanged official content produces the same fingerprint, while any change to the official content changes it.

If you recompute the fingerprint from the official source and get a different value, one of us is out of date — please report it through the corrections log.