republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-067.md

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Bill	Strengthening Civics Education	The act specifies information and issues that public schools must teach in providing courses on civil government. The act directs the state board of education to review the state civics standards and update them as necessary to include the identified information and issues. The act encourages each school district and public school to partner with local service organizations to solicit donations to improve the quality of the civics education program. Donations may be used to pay the cost to develop a high-quality curriculum, invite speakers to interact with students, and provide students with opportunities for civics learning and engagement outside of the classroom.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-067	Colorado SB 21-067 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Chris Hansen Don Coram Terri Carver	10	15	6	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cc836dc0-b50a-473b-89c0-afa2ff0eaa51	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-067	c98330ce48d4df81fc93f5db8c945a8a5f94326f8f9fb8992958c0d3116cc3a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-067 (2021A) — Strengthening Civics Education

The act specifies information and issues that public schools must teach in providing courses on civil government. The act directs the state board of education to review the state civics standards and update them as necessary to include the identified information and issues. The act encourages each school district and public school to partner with local service organizations to solicit donations to improve the quality of the civics education program. Donations may be used to pay the cost to develop a high-quality curriculum, invite speakers to interact with students, and provide students with opportunities for civics learning and engagement outside of the classroom.(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
2. Engrossed (03/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 23–11 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 26–8 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 58–5 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Terri Carver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 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 Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc836dc0-b50a-473b-89c0-afa2ff0eaa51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).