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Read. Follow. Verify.Colorado updates antitrust merger notification rules and sets Attorney General document timelines
Last action · June 4, 2026: Governor SignedSponsors: Cecelia Espenoza and 6 others
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What This Bill Does
Colorado enacts updates to the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act, altering filing timelines for s with the state Attorney General and setting confidentiality, document destruction, and cure period requirements.
Changes compliance deadlines and privacy protections for merging businesses operating in Colorado, while establishing strict timeframes for the state Attorney General to destroy or return submitted merger documents.
- The Uniform Law Commission is a non-profit organization that provides states with non-partisan model legislation to bring clarity and stability to state statutory law. context
- Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust filings are federal notifications required for certain large mergers and acquisitions to allow antitrust regulators to review potential market impacts. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
businesses engaging in mergers subject to antitrust notification
Companies must adhere to a revised one-business-day timeline for state filings and benefit from mandatory document destruction timelines and a 3-day cure period before penalties.
Colorado attorney general
The office must provide secure storage, offer confidentiality assurances to other state attorneys general, destroy or return documents within a set timeframe, and issue written cure notices before penalizing noncompliance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When must businesses submit their Hart-Scott-Rodino forms to the Colorado attorney general?
What happens to merger documents submitted to the Colorado attorney general after a transaction closes?
Are penalties imposed immediately if a person fails to file the required form correctly?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
12 actions- Jun 4, 2026Office of the GovernorEnrolledGovernor Signed
- Jun 3, 2026HouseFloorSigned by the Speaker of the House
- Jun 3, 2026SenateFloorSigned by the President of the Senate
- Jun 3, 2026Office of the GovernorEnrolledSent to the Governor
- May 12, 2026SenateFloorSenate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
- May 11, 2026SenateCommitteeSenate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
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- May 11, 2026SenateSenate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- May 8, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
- May 7, 2026HouseFloorHouse Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
- May 6, 2026HouseHouse Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- May 5, 2026HouseCommitteeHouse Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
- Apr 30, 2026HouseIntroducedIntroduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
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Refer House Bill 26-1427 to the Committee of the Whole.
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7
- Yes
- 4
- No
- 3
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 0
- Abstain
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Refer House Bill 26-1427 to the Committee of the Whole.
Total
10
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 0
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 0
- Abstain
- 0
How they voted (10)
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Shift from Contemporaneous to Delayed State Antitrust Filing
The legislation alters the filing obligation from contemporaneous with federal filings to a fixed one-business-day window.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance55How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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