---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional Fire Fighters License Plate Standards"
description: "With regard to the Colorado professional fire fighters special license plate, the act:Reduces from 20 years to 15 years the length of time an organization must be in existence to qualify to issue the license plate; and"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1218"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1218 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessie Danielson", "Leroy Garcia", "Monica Duran", "Rod Bockenfeld"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b28a591b-4c81-4475-b16b-4990dbeabaf7"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1218"
source_hash: "089349d0d439f1b84557852599f7af3130e0df3927250789ebdf29d1b32ba61c"
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 21-1218 (2021A) — Professional Fire Fighters License Plate Standards

With regard to the Colorado professional fire fighters special license plate, the act:Reduces from 20 years to 15 years the length of time an organization must be in existence to qualify to issue the license plate; and

## 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_hb1218_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (04/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (04/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (04/20/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (04/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1218_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1218_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **59–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
- Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
- Monica Duran — primary (person)
- Rod Bockenfeld — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-04-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b28a591b-4c81-4475-b16b-4990dbeabaf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).