Changes Automated Vehicle Identification System Usage
Concerning changes to the usage of automated vehicle identification systems.
Official status: Became Law
Prime sponsors
- Matt Ball (Senate) — Prime Sponsor
- Byron Pelton (Senate) — Prime Sponsor
- Jenny Willford (House) — Prime Sponsor
- Carlos Barron (House) — Prime Sponsor
Progress (from the official record)
Official summary
Official text — shown in English exactly as published by the official source. The official text controls.
The act makes changes to the use of automated vehicle identification systems (AVIS), including: Modifying the public notice requirements that the state, a county, a city and county, a municipality, or an agency responsible for placing a new AVIS must provide before utilizing the new AVIS; Making the registered owner of a motor vehicle responsible for all civil penalties associated with violations committed with the vehicle unless the vehicle was sold, leased, or stolen; Creating a procedure through which the registered owner of a motor vehicle may prove that the vehicle was sold, leased, or stolen at the time when a violation was detected by an AVIS and, thereby, under certain circumstances, relieving the registered owner from having to pay the civil penalty associated with the notice of violation; Requiring that, if a variable speed limit is in effect or a speed limit is otherwise temporarily lowered due to hazardous weather or other traffic conditions, the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality may issue only a notice of violation and civil penalty for a speeding violation that exceeds the regular maximum posted speed limit for that location; Changing the penalty structure for different levels of speeding violations detected by an AVIS; Establishing that the compensation the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality pays to a manufacturer or vendor of an AVIS must, in addition to other conditions, be a flat monthly fee or a flat hourly rate and not include any incentives, bonuses, or escalators related to the number of citations issued or the amount of revenue generated; and Beginning January 1, 2035, increasing the civil penalties associated with notices of violations issued for violations captured by an AVIS. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Status timeline
| Date | Location | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 03/31/2026 | Senate | Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy |
| 04/29/2026 | Senate | Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole |
| 05/04/2026 | Senate | Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor |
| 05/05/2026 | Senate | Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor |
| 05/05/2026 | House | Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation, Housing & Local Government |
| 05/08/2026 | House | House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole |
| 05/11/2026 | House | House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor |
| 05/12/2026 | House | House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments |
| 05/13/2026 | Senate | Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
| 05/26/2026 | Senate | Signed by the President of the Senate |
| 05/26/2026 | House | Signed by the Speaker of the House |
| 05/27/2026 | Governor | Sent to the Governor |
| 06/02/2026 | Governor | Governor Signed |
Recorded votes
- 05/08/2026 — House Transportation, Housing & Local Government: “Refer Senate Bill 26-152, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.” — the motion passed on a vote of 11–2.
- 04/29/2026 — Senate Transportation & Energy: “Refer Senate Bill 26-152, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.” — the motion passed on a vote of 9–0.
Proposed amendments (14 proposed amendments)
| Amendment | Committee / floor hearing | Offered | Disposition | Official document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L.001 | Committee amendment — Transportation & Energy (Senate) | 04/29/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.002 | Committee amendment — Transportation & Energy (Senate) | 04/29/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.003 | Committee amendment — Transportation & Energy (Senate) | 04/29/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.005 | Committee amendment — Transportation & Energy (Senate) | 04/29/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.007 Sponsor: Senator Pelton B. | Floor amendment — Second Reading (Senate) | 05/04/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.009 Sponsor: Senator Pelton B. | Floor amendment — Second Reading (Senate) | 05/04/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.010 Sponsor: Senator Pelton B. | Floor amendment — Second Reading (Senate) | 05/04/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.012 Sponsor: Senator Pelton B. | Floor amendment — Third Reading (Senate) | 05/05/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.016 | Committee amendment — Transportation, Housing & Local Government (House) | 05/08/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.017 | Committee amendment — Transportation, Housing & Local Government (House) | 05/08/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.018 | Committee amendment — Transportation, Housing & Local Government (House) | 05/08/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.019 Sponsor: Representative Willford | Floor amendment — Second Reading (House) | 05/11/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.020 Sponsor: Representative Willford | Floor amendment — Second Reading (House) | 05/11/2026 | Passed | View official document |
| L.023 Sponsor: Representative Willford | Floor amendment — Second Reading (House) | 05/11/2026 | Passed | View official document |
Source: Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) · Data as of
Full text
- Signed Act version (official PDF), 06/03/2026
- Final Act version (official PDF), 05/21/2026
- Rerevised version (official PDF), 05/12/2026
- Revised version (official PDF), 05/11/2026
- Reengrossed version (official PDF), 05/05/2026
- Engrossed version (official PDF), 05/04/2026
- Introduced version (official PDF), 03/31/2026
Official record
View SB26-152 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
3be86e86a688af3d8f05598623b70d65688527fbe1ce7ca143edd47a4e7a7efe
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.
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.