republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-138.md

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Bill	Improve Brain Injury Support In Criminal Justice System	Subject to available appropriations, the act requires the department of corrections to create a brain injury pilot program to evaluate outcomes for offenders with a brain injury who received screening and support while in the criminal justice system.The act creates in the department of human services the brain injury support in the criminal justice system task force to develop a plan to integrate into the criminal justice system a model to identify and support individuals with a brain injury who are in the criminal justice system.The act appropriates $144,409 and an additional 0.9 FTE to the department of corrections.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-138	Colorado SB 21-138 (2021A)	bill		enacted	James Coleman Jennifer Bacon Shane Sandridge	11	16	4	2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00	2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3147085d-8a9e-4bec-bc2c-ee4ba6cc37dd	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-138	e28a14e44b4a8db81d73ed4806992a81207595344db47e58bda91244dd561c89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-138 (2021A) — Improve Brain Injury Support In Criminal Justice System

Subject to available appropriations, the act requires the department of corrections to create a brain injury pilot program to evaluate outcomes for offenders with a brain injury who received screening and support while in the criminal justice system.The act creates in the department of human services the brain injury support in the criminal justice system task force to develop a plan to integrate into the criminal justice system a model to identify and support individuals with a brain injury who are in the criminal justice system.The act appropriates $144,409 and an additional 0.9 FTE to the department of corrections.(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 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (07/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 48–14 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Shane Sandridge — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3147085d-8a9e-4bec-bc2c-ee4ba6cc37dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).