Why an HOA reader might have expected something

Two HOA-specific ballot attempts existed in this cycle and both failed before any voter saw them. Proposed initiatives 2025-2026 #4, to cap HOA fees between $150 and $300 a month, and #3, to make HOA fees tax deductible, were filed in April 2024 by Patsy Dishmon and Sherry Parks-Harris. Neither reached the Title Board. Both died at the review-and-comment stage because, in the state's words, “the proponents have submitted an idea, rather than the actual language” that would be added to the constitution or statutes.

Separately, the 2025-2026 Title Board filings list — 194 measures that did reach title setting — contains no HOA, condominium, covenant, metro district or housing measure. The only property-adjacent entry, #49 on a full property tax exemption for disabled veterans, did not reach the ballot.

Amendment 82, read carefully

For a board, the practical question is whether a constitutional right to purchase natural gas would defeat a covenant, rule or master-policy condition restricting gas appliances — a question that arises in stacked condominiums where gas cooking on a balcony, or a gas line to an individual unit, is an architectural and life-safety matter as much as an energy one.

Three observations, none of them an answer:

The measure as described targets prohibitions on purchase. A covenant that restricts installation of a gas line, or an association rule adopted for fire-code reasons, is not obviously a prohibition on purchasing gas.

Colorado has voided covenants by statute before, and it does so explicitly when it means to. C.R.S. 38-33.3-106.5 is a list of provisions declared contrary to public policy — solar and xeriscape among them — and each was added by a legislature that said so in terms. A constitutional right drafted against government action is a different instrument.

Fire code sits underneath all of it. Where a local fire code governs gas appliances on a balcony, that is a public-safety rule an association is often obliged to follow rather than a preference it chose.

Anyone asking us to predict how this would apply to a specific community's rules is asking for something we do not do.

The other measures, briefly, and why they are not HOA stories

Amendment 87 (graduated income tax) and Proposition 136 (income tax rate cap) are tax-structure measures. Neither reaches assessments, and Colorado HOA assessments on a personal residence are not deductible on the state return in any case — which is exactly what the failed initiative #3 was trying to change.

Proposition NN is school funding, referred by the legislature rather than initiated.

None of the fourteen touches CCIOA, condominium law, special district governance or property tax classification.

What this means for 2027

The absence extends past the ballot, and it is worth knowing because it changes what a board can expect in January.

There is no Colorado interim committee working on HOAs, common interest communities, housing, land use, special districts or wildfire. The 2026 interim has nine committees and none of them covers this ground, after HB26-1331 — law since June 2, 2026 — repealed two interim committees, barred nine more from meeting, and capped the survivors at five bill drafts requested and three recommended.

Colorado does not publish pre-filed bills. There is no public system disclosing 2027 titles or text before the session convenes, and the ordinary substitute — interim committee drafts — does not exist this year for these subjects.

The 2027-2028 initiative filings on record run #1 through #6, on elections, proportional representation and clemency. None is HOA-related.

So the honest answer to “what is coming in 2027?” is that as of today there is no verified Colorado HOA bill or ballot measure to report, and any claim otherwise is unsourced.

Where the next bill will probably come from instead

Not from a ballot measure or an interim committee, but from the regulator's own list. The Colorado Division of Real Estate's 2025 HOA annual report includes a section headed “Possible Statutory Gaps,” naming the resetting thirty-day cure period in C.R.S. 38-33.3-209.5, the undefined contract terms in C.R.S. 38-33.3-317, the absence of any mid-year budget amendment procedure in C.R.S. 38-33.3-303, and the $400 limited-expense threshold in C.R.S. 38-33.3-116 still indexed to a Bureau of Labor Statistics metropolitan area retired in January 2018.

That list is short, specific, and written by the office legislators call. It is the likeliest source of a 2027 CCIOA bill.