---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Law Supplemental"
description: "The 2020 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of law.Amends House Bill 20-1379, concerning suspending the direct distribution to the public employees' retirement association for the 2020-21 state fiscal year, to decrease the amount decreased for the PERA direct distribution.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-046"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-046 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Julie McCluskie"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-21T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75170e7c-e90c-49a9-b92f-4b8f063a82ad"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-046"
source_hash: "667f21267b76e07a28edd2dad994e1c05373f5fe83f70aaafe2d1668cbd7dcb1"
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 21-046 (2021A) — Department of Law Supplemental

The 2020 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of law.Amends House Bill 20-1379, concerning suspending the direct distribution to the public employees' retirement association for the 2020-21 state fiscal year, to decrease the amount decreased for the PERA direct distribution.(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_sb046_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (03/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (02/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (03/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (03/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_046_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (03/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_046_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **45–18** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Julie McCluskie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-21T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-03-05T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2021-02-26T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75170e7c-e90c-49a9-b92f-4b8f063a82ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).