House Bill 14-1125 (“HB 1125”) was introduced today by Representative Diane Mitsch Bush (D-Steamboat Springs) to fix an inadvertent oversight in the association records law which was overhauled during the 2012 legislative session and went into effect on January 1, 2013. Currently, the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (“CCIOA”) prohibits associations from publishing the telephone numbers and email addresses of members. Obviously, this limits the information associations may publish in membership directories. 

HB 1125 permits an association to publish email addresses and telephone numbers of members and residents of the association, if those members or residents first provide written consent to their association to publish this information. Owners and residents may withdraw this written consent, but such withdrawal of consent does not require their association to go back and “change, retrieve or destroy” previously published telephone numbers or email addresses.Continue Reading Bill Introduced to Fix Oversight in CCIOA Records Provision

As required by House Bill 1134, which passed during the 2013 legislative session and was signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper, the Colorado Division of Real Estate has just published the study mandated by the bill entitled "2013 Study of Comparable HOA Information and Resource Centers." 

As reported in CLAC’s update on the 2014 legislative session…

The 2014 legislative session kicked off today in Colorado as the Sixty-Ninth General Assembly convened this morning and is scheduled to adjourn on May 7th. Since this is an election year, there is no question that many bills will be introduced from both sides of the aisle to position legislators for re-election. However, for our purposes, these postings will focus solely upon HOA related bills during the session.

As Chair of CAI’s Colorado Legislative Action Committee (“CLAC”), my postings with important updates will be available for review on the following websites: CAI National, the Southern Colorado Chapter of CAI, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of CAI and on Colorado HOA Law. If the postings don’t show up simultaneously on these websites, please be patient since many folks will be involved in posting updates on their respective websites. Also, feel free to repost these updates or pass them along to folks who may find them of interest.

There has been a whole lot of speculation on what we can anticipate during the 2014 legislative session. However, CLAC is going to stick to the facts as we know them and based upon the information we currently have, here is what you need to know:Continue Reading Ready, Get Set, Go!