---
type: "Bill"
title: "Money Support Agricultural Events Organization"
description: "The act creates the agricultural events relief program in the department of agriculture to provide COVID-19 relief payments to agricultural events organizations, and appropriates $2 million from the general fund for the program. In addition, the act appropriates:$5 million for the Colorado state fair and industrial exhibition;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1262"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1262 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Sonnenberg", "Leroy Garcia", "Mike Lynch", "Susan Lontine"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-29T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e684afa-278d-40cf-81d0-a7ddd15570f5"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1262"
source_hash: "a7f4222c444e3267396e6f0331243a4cc87c8da9e728d11a6b58c6a62fcf1388"
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 21-1262 (2021A) — Money Support Agricultural Events Organization

The act creates the agricultural events relief program in the department of agriculture to provide COVID-19 relief payments to agricultural events organizations, and appropriates $2 million from the general fund for the program. In addition, the act appropriates:$5 million for the Colorado state fair and industrial exhibition;

## 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_hb1262_s_app_003.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/02/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1262_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1262_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **54–11** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **57–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **55–8** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
- Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
- Mike Lynch — primary (person)
- Susan Lontine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
- **2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources `introduction`
- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Water `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e684afa-278d-40cf-81d0-a7ddd15570f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).