republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2020a/hb-20-1137.md

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Bill	Broadband Grant Certification Of Unserved Area Requirement	The broadband deployment board (board) awards grants for the provision of broadband service in unserved areas of the state, which are areas deemed to have insufficient broadband service. The act authorizes but does not require an applicant seeking grant money from the board to submit to the board a written certification from the local entity with jurisdiction over the area that the applicant proposes to serve, certifying that the area is an unserved area. A local entity that is requested to provide written certification may not do so without first holding a hearing on the matter after providing notice of the hearing, including notice to any incumbent provider. The board is required to give substantial weight to a local entity's written certification that an area is an unserved area.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2020A	HB 20-1137	Colorado HB 20-1137 (2020A)	bill		enacted	Julie McCluskie Kerry Donovan Matt Soper	11	17	4	2020-01-16T07:00:00+00:00	2020-07-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1117c91f-4236-4d47-9ed8-35ea772123a4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1137	fe568c00f2dc17f6285dedd5029d9804d7384f4d42f1f8431945855e50909ba7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 20-1137 (2020A) — Broadband Grant Certification Of Unserved Area Requirement

The broadband deployment board (board) awards grants for the provision of broadband service in unserved areas of the state, which are areas deemed to have insufficient broadband service. The act authorizes but does not require an applicant seeking grant money from the board to submit to the board a written certification from the local entity with jurisdiction over the area that the applicant proposes to serve, certifying that the area is an unserved area. A local entity that is requested to provide written certification may not do so without first holding a hearing on the matter after providing notice of the hearing, including notice to any incumbent provider. The board is required to give substantial weight to a local entity's written certification that an area is an unserved area.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/27/2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/29/2020) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/16/2020) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/13/2020) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/21/2020) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (06/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (02/28/2020) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (06/05/2020) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (06/04/2020) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (07/06/2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 53–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 52–11 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 61–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Julie McCluskie — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-07-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-06-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2020-06-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2020-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2020-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2020-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2020-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2020-02-28T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-27T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2020-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2020-02-21T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-02-12T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1117c91f-4236-4d47-9ed8-35ea772123a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).