republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-172.md

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Bill	Educator Pay Raise Fund	The act creates the educator pay raise fund (fund), which consists of money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. The creation of the fund is conditioned on passage of a ballot measure by November 2027 that increases state tax revenue and requires the revenue to be deposited into the fund. The department of education (department) must distribute any money appropriated from the fund to assist school districts, charter schools, and boards of cooperative services in increasing teacher salaries and the hourly wage paid to other employees.The act creates the educator pay raise fund task force (task force) to recommend a process by which the department will disburse money from the fund to school districts and charter schools. The act specifies considerations that the process must address, including requiring that a school district or charter school must at least maintain the level of funding it provides for educator salaries and wages from revenue other than money received from the fund. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives must appoint the task force members who represent specific constituencies listed in the act. The task force must submit its recommendations to the education committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2022.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-172	Colorado SB 21-172 (2021A)	bill		enacted	David Ortiz Jessie Danielson Leroy Garcia Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez	9	13	7	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/85ae25d8-4f28-4417-9646-c41d3cee6910	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-172	d2aff2266997f43af77f13177d5fc672e445135fdd0795bbc6527d0ef036ed83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-172 (2021A) — Educator Pay Raise Fund

The act creates the educator pay raise fund (fund), which consists of money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. The creation of the fund is conditioned on passage of a ballot measure by November 2027 that increases state tax revenue and requires the revenue to be deposited into the fund. The department of education (department) must distribute any money appropriated from the fund to assist school districts, charter schools, and boards of cooperative services in increasing teacher salaries and the hourly wage paid to other employees.The act creates the educator pay raise fund task force (task force) to recommend a process by which the department will disburse money from the fund to school districts and charter schools. The act specifies considerations that the process must address, including requiring that a school district or charter school must at least maintain the level of funding it provides for educator salaries and wages from revenue other than money received from the fund. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives must appoint the task force members who represent specific constituencies listed in the act. The task force must submit its recommendations to the education committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2022.(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 (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (07/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 22–39 (fail) · lower
• COW * — 15–20 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Jessie Danielson — primary (person)
• Leroy Garcia — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85ae25d8-4f28-4417-9646-c41d3cee6910. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).