HB 22-1082 Summary

• Establishes a Fair Housing Unit within the Colorado Department of Law to enforce state housing laws and protect tenants and mobile home residents.

• Expands the Attorney General's enforcement authority to include the Immigrant Tenant Protection Act, Mobile Home Park Act, and related housing statutes in Title 38.

• Grants the Attorney General power to investigate housing violations, issue subpoenas, examine records, and seek injunctive relief and damages based on substantiated complaints or government agency referrals.

• Provides remedies including temporary restraining orders, injunctions, assurances of discontinuance with restitution requirements, and penalties aligned with existing housing law enforcement mechanisms.

• Establishes a three-year statute of limitations for enforcement actions, extendable by one year if defendant conduct delayed the Attorney General's action.