---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Authority for Business Personal Property Tax Exemption"
description: "The act allows counties, municipalities, and special districts to exempt up to 100% of business personal property from the levy and collection of property taxation for the 2021 property tax year.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-130"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-130 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brittany Pettersen", "Chris Holbert", "Kevin Van Winkle", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af1bebcc-4319-487f-8700-fad9c22fc06e"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-130"
source_hash: "180e7d2ed0bbcdcdc1214cbdaa723d579de188ea37d3be4b02db524e79f07979"
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 21-130 (2021A) — Local Authority for Business Personal Property Tax Exemption

The act allows counties, municipalities, and special districts to exempt up to 100% of business personal property from the levy and collection of property taxation for the 2021 property 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_sb130_h_tlg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (03/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/20/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (02/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130tlg_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (03/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (04/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (04/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_130_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (04/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_130_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **26–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
- Chris Holbert — primary (person)
- Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af1bebcc-4319-487f-8700-fad9c22fc06e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).