republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-148.md

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Bill	Creation Of Financial Empowerment Office	The act creates the financial empowerment office (office) and the director of the office (director) in the department of law to grow the financial resilience and well-being of Coloradans through specified community-derived goals and strategies. The director is appointed by the attorney general and may hire staff as necessary to perform the duties and functions of the office. The office also consists of a manager who is appointed by the director.The office is authorized to partner with governmental bodies, community organizations, financial institutions, local service providers, philanthropic organizations, and other organizations as necessary to achieve the purposes of the office. The office is also authorized to develop or promote new or existing:Methods to increase access to safe and affordable financial products;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-148	Colorado SB 21-148 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Chris Kolker Daneya Esgar Julie Gonzales Kerry Tipper	10	16	2	2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f1a7e621-faa8-40c1-9947-70d0fbda699a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-148	dc6f7c623a028b81f3a0b2106d2f78a374a7e2b2b6cf37f919d1d27c7c69aae4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-148 (2021A) — Creation Of Financial Empowerment Office

The act creates the financial empowerment office (office) and the director of the office (director) in the department of law to grow the financial resilience and well-being of Coloradans through specified community-derived goals and strategies. The director is appointed by the attorney general and may hire staff as necessary to perform the duties and functions of the office. The office also consists of a manager who is appointed by the director.The office is authorized to partner with governmental bodies, community organizations, financial institutions, local service providers, philanthropic organizations, and other organizations as necessary to achieve the purposes of the office. The office is also authorized to develop or promote new or existing:Methods to increase access to safe and affordable financial products;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Kolker — primary (person)
• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Kerry Tipper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 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 Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1a7e621-faa8-40c1-9947-70d0fbda699a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).