Colorado § 43-1-1704 - Information provided to transit riders - language access.
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§ 43-1-1704. Information provided to transit riders - language access.
(1) (a) On and after June 30, 2027, a covered transit agency shall ensure that all publicly available key transit information that is disseminated by the covered transit agency is translated into each language that is spoken by at least five percent of the population of any county in which the covered transit agency operates. A covered transit agency is only required to provide translation into languages that meet the five percent population threshold as of the most recent United States census bureau American community survey or comparable census data for individuals who both speak English less than very well and speak the shared minority language at home.
(b) The translation requirement in this subsection (1) is satisfied by providing a link or quick response (QR) code to a website with the translated information; except that the translated information must be provided in a substantially similar format as the English information for any language spoken by at least twenty percent of the population of any county in which the covered transit agency operates, as measured by the most recent United States census bureau American community survey or comparable census data for individuals who both speak English less than very well and speak the shared minority language at home.
(2) A covered transit agency may use an already existing language access plan required by Title VI of the federal "Civil Rights Act of 1964", 42 U.S.C. sec. 2000d et seq., or an equivalent required language access plan, to satisfy the language access requirements of this section, including to determine what materials must be translated and into which languages.
(3) Translations must be linguistically accurate, culturally appropriate, and technically consistent with the original information.
Source: L. 2026: Entire part added, (HB 26-1269), ch. 161, p. 964, § 1, effective May 27.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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