---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental Justice Disproportionate Impacted Community"
description: "Section 3 of the act defines \"disproportionately impacted community\" (DIC) as:A community that is in a census block group where the proportion of households that are low income, that identify as minority, or that are housing cost-burdened is greater than 40%; or"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1266"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1266 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominique Jackson", "Faith Winter", "Janet Buckner", "Mike Weissman"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 16
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c68806d5-606f-4e41-87d2-bf3824cc6cc1"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1266"
source_hash: "7480b78e4aa0740d2d460f4bfa295dd8bac75df6fd255a304ee660af71f02d58"
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 HB 21-1266 (2021A) — Environmental Justice Disproportionate Impacted Community

Section 3 of the act defines "disproportionately impacted community" (DIC) as:A community that is in a census block group where the proportion of households that are low income, that identify as minority, or that are housing cost-burdened is greater than 40%; or

## 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_hb1266_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266ene_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266fin.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266app.pdf)
8. **PA4 (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266sfin_01.pdf)
9. **PA5 (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266sfinapp.pdf)
10. **Reengrossed (05/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_ren.pdf)
11. **Rerevised (06/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_rer.pdf)
12. **Revised (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1266_rev.pdf)
13. **Signed Act (07/02/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1266_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- ADHERE — **30–35** (fail) · lower
- COW * — **13–19** (fail) · upper
- COW * — **13–19** (fail) · upper
- COW * — **12–20** (fail) · upper
- REPASS — **37–27** (pass) · lower
- LO — **25–40** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR — **38–27** (pass) · lower
- 2021-06-08 17:47:55 — **24–39** (fail) · lower
- BILL — **38–24** (pass) · lower
- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **19–15** (pass) · upper
- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominique Jackson — primary (person)
- Faith Winter — primary (person)
- Janet Buckner — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c68806d5-606f-4e41-87d2-bf3824cc6cc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).