US state regulation
Colorado
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Colorado - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 76/100 Top 10%
- Regulations tracked
- 8 Top 10%
- Enacted into law
- 8
- Categories regulated
- 4/5
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Ceiling tracker band. Portal tracker 76/100 sits in the top third of scored states (#2 of 51).
The verdict
Colorado is a dense, high-tracker archive: 8 tracked rows and 76/100, with 8 enacted across 4 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 76/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 8
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 8
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Colorado legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Colorado's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 8 Tracked rows in archive
- 8 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 76/100 Portal tracker score
- #3 Of 51 by volume
- #2 Of 51 by tracker score
- New Nearest volume peer 8 rows
- 4 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Colorado's tracker score vs the tracked state corpus
Ceiling tracker band: Colorado is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Colorado enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 3 in 2024
Policy coverage
Colorado enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Colorado's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Colorado regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Colorado's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Colorado's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
97/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- A 8 tracked
96th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- A 76/100
98th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 4 categories
96th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act
SB 19-085 Effective: 2021-01-01First comprehensive pay transparency law. Pay range in all job postings.
Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act — Salary History
SB 19-085 Effective: 2021-01-01Colorado prohibits salary history inquiries as part of broader Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
Colorado FAMLI + Healthy Families & Workplaces Act
HB 20-1415 / SB 20-205 Effective: 2024-01-01Colorado provides 12 weeks paid family leave via FAMLI program (premiums split employer/employee). Paid sick: 48 hrs/year for employers 16+.
Colorado Minimum Wage Order
C.R.S. 8-6-111 Effective: 2025-01-01Colorado minimum wage $14.81/hr (2025). Annually indexed to regional CPI. Tipped workers: $11.79/hr.
Colorado Non-Compete Restriction
HB 22-1317 Effective: 2022-08-10Void below ~$130K. Procedural requirements above.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Colorado
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Colorado (DENSE · CEILING · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
DENSE CEILING QUIET WORKER-LED
New York · DENSE
New York tracks 8 rows (more by 0 than Colorado); tracker stamp MID vs CEILING.
Oregon · DENSE
Oregon tracks 8 rows (more by 0 than Colorado); tracker stamp MID vs CEILING.
Illinois · DENSE
Illinois tracks 9 rows (more by 1 than Colorado); tracker stamp MID vs CEILING.
Washington · DENSE
Washington tracks 7 rows (fewer by 1 than Colorado); tracker stamp MID vs CEILING.
Massachusetts (MID score pole)
Massachusetts sits near Colorado on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps CEILING.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Colorado's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (5 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Colorado
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Colorado state-rule registry · 2024 Colorado: 8 tracked · 8 enacted · tracker 76/100 (DENSE/CEILING). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Colorado's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.