---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government Authority Roughed-in Roads"
description: "The act authorizes local governments to prohibit the operation of motor vehicles or off-highway vehicles on roughed-in roads, which are areas where the ground has been cut with the intention to make a road but has not been improved enough to qualify as a road.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-084"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-084 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Smallwood", "Matt Gray"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8e2b417-6904-4d36-85cb-546b4c95a8a2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-084"
source_hash: "1b0bd97626abd29fb9e5ed455da5279d76bfa9a5b6e8177d5579b36417675906"
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 21-084 (2021A) — Local Government Authority Roughed-in Roads

The act authorizes local governments to prohibit the operation of motor vehicles or off-highway vehicles on roughed-in roads, which are areas where the ground has been cut with the intention to make a road but has not been improved enough to qualify as a road.(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_sb084_h_tlg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (03/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084sloc_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/17/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/09/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_084_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_084_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **44–19** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **27–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
- Matt Gray — 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
- **2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2021-03-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8e2b417-6904-4d36-85cb-546b4c95a8a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).