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CO HB1302
Bill
Status
5/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Kyle Brown
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AI Summary
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Creates the Strengthen Colorado Homes Enterprise to impose a 0.5% fee on homeowner's insurance premiums (exempting homes with resilient roofs) and fund grants to homeowners for installing weather-resistant roof systems certified by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety
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Establishes the Wildfire Catastrophe Reinsurance Enterprise to provide reinsurance payments to insurers for losses from state or federally declared wildfire disasters, funded through revenue bonds and a 0.5% fee on homeowner's insurance premiums (exempting wildfire-prepared properties)
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Requires insurers participating in the reinsurance program to write policies in high-wildfire-risk areas proportional to their market share and reduce premiums in those areas to reflect reinsurance benefits
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Both enterprises are governed by 5-member boards (insurance commissioner plus 4 gubernatorial appointees), may issue revenue bonds, and must each keep fee revenue under $100 million in their first five fiscal years
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Appropriates $7,410,037 for FY 2025-26 to implement the enterprises; both programs are scheduled for repeal on September 1, 2035
Legislative Description
Increase Access Homeowner's Insurance Enterprises
Health Care & Health Insurance
Last Action
Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
5/6/2025