---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reverse Transfers From Severance Tax Operational Fund"
description: "To avoid a fund deficit in the severance tax operational fund, the act reverses 5 transfers made from the fund to other cash funds after the fiscal year 2019-20. Specifically, the state treasurer is required to transfer the following amounts to the fund:$1,998,205 from the species conservation trust fund;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-220"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-220 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Chris Hansen", "Leslie Herod"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ece35fd1-419d-45cb-8007-611ba3bbb0b2"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-220"
source_hash: "36eaa8289cbd96e193c98b4362e301326f5bee629fb121c03fb908f2accc5036"
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 21-220 (2021A) — Reverse Transfers From Severance Tax Operational Fund

To avoid a fund deficit in the severance tax operational fund, the act reverses 5 transfers made from the fund to other cash funds after the fiscal year 2019-20. Specifically, the state treasurer is required to transfer the following amounts to the fund:$1,998,205 from the species conservation trust fund;

## 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_sb220_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/08/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/09/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_220_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (04/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_220_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **63–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
- Chris Hansen — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T06:00:00+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/ece35fd1-419d-45cb-8007-611ba3bbb0b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).