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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Extending Expiring Tax Check-offs"
+description: "The voluntary contribution to the Colorado healthy rivers fund, the Alzheimer's Association fund, the military family relief fund, the Colorado cancer fund, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado fund, and the unwanted horse fund are currently scheduled to appear on the state income tax return form for income tax years beginning prior to January 1, 2021. The act reauthorizes the funds to remain on the form, so long as the funds meet the existing statutory requirement that a voluntary contribution fund must receive at least $50,000 in contributions each tax year.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
+legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
+session: "2021A"
+identifier: "SB 21-145"
+citation: "Colorado SB 21-145 (2021A)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cleave Simpson", "Donald Valdez"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a532179a-110b-469c-9cf8-3a06ddbaec40"
+source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-145"
+source_hash: "0850b96081c4c936fdc566a517e2ee71459be10e2ebdf08026507325228edcc0"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
+---
+
+# Colorado SB 21-145 (2021A) — Extending Expiring Tax Check-offs
+
+The voluntary contribution to the Colorado healthy rivers fund, the Alzheimer's Association fund, the military family relief fund, the Colorado cancer fund, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado fund, and the unwanted horse fund are currently scheduled to appear on the state income tax return form for income tax years beginning prior to January 1, 2021. The act reauthorizes the funds to remain on the form, so long as the funds meet the existing statutory requirement that a voluntary contribution fund must receive at least $50,000 in contributions each tax year.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_sb145_h_fin_001.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed (03/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_eng.pdf)
+3. **Final Act (04/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_enr.pdf)
+4. **Introduced (03/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_01.pdf)
+5. **Reengrossed (03/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_rn3.pdf)
+6. **Rerevised (04/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_rer.pdf)
+7. **Revised (04/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_145_rev.pdf)
+8. **Signed Act (04/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_145_signed.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- RECONSIDERATION — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- BILL — **53–10** (pass) · lower
+- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cleave Simpson — primary (person)
+- Donald Valdez — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
+- **2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
+- **2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
+- **2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a532179a-110b-469c-9cf8-3a06ddbaec40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
+