Legislative Wrap-Up: Reflecting on advocacy wins at the Colorado Statehouse

The 2025 Colorado legislative session has concluded, and AARP Colorado’s nonpartisan advocacy efforts helped achieve several significant victories for older Coloradans. This year’s legislative advocacy focused on four key areas: financial security, housing, fraud prevention and health care. Additionally, AARP advocates worked to mitigate a budget shortfall’s impact on older Coloradans.

Here are some of the legislative gains that AARP Colorado helped achieve this session, through advocacy, lobbying, and coalition efforts:

• Created fraud warnings and implemented reasonable, commonsense protections for crypto-currency ATMs.
• Increased price transparency to stop hidden “junk” fees for Coloradans who rent their homes.
• Supported family caregivers through a stream-lined Medicaid Redetermination process.
• Improved coordination during emergencies for paratransit riders.
• Expanded accessibility in building code standards.

AARP Colorado volunteers and staff were ever-present at the Capitol, fighting hard on the issues that are important to our nearly 670,000 members, as well as all older Coloradans and their families. Learn more about our legislative victories, and how to get involved, by reviewing the 2025 Legislative Wrap-Up Report.