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Bill	Adopt Programs Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Utilities	Section 1 of the act defines a "gas distribution utility" (GDU) as a gas public utility with more than 90,000 retail customers. The bill requires each GDU to file a clean heat plan (plan) with the public utilities commission (PUC). A plan must demonstrate how the GDU will use clean heat resources to meet clean heat targets (targets) established by the act. The targets are a 4% reduction below 2015 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels by 2025 and 22% below 2015 GHG emission levels by 2030.The PUC will initiate a rule-making proceeding by October 1, 2021, to update demand-side management rules. The PUC will establish a cost cap for each GDU's compliance with its plan. The cost cap is 2.5% of annual gas bills for all of a GDU's full-service customers. The PUC is directed to approve a plan if the PUC finds that doing so is in the public interest.A municipal GDU must file a plan with the air quality control commission (AQCC) that demonstrates a 4% GHG emission reduction by 2025 and a 22% GHG emission reduction by 2030, both as compared with 2015 levels. Small GDUs may file a plan, which is subject to the cost cap and must contain its own targets.Section 2 requires the AQCC to initiate a rule-making proceeding by September 1, 2022, to establish protocols for recovered methane that utilities must use in forecasting their emission reductions.Section 3 directs the oil and gas conservation commission (commission) to conduct a study to evaluate the resources that would be needed to ensure the safe and effective regulation of injection wells used for sequestration of GHG.Section 4 makes the following appropriations:$92,482 and 1.0 FTE is appropriated from the public utilities commission fixed utility fund to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the PUC;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-264	Colorado SB 21-264 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Chris Hansen Tracey Bernett	10	15	7	2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a5448e11-7ab5-43be-a158-3ff332f5507f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-264	f87388ae1bcb812fc5db20ae06de9c48c058bf8d960c88c60ac81704e15bedd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-264 (2021A) — Adopt Programs Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Utilities

Section 1 of the act defines a "gas distribution utility" (GDU) as a gas public utility with more than 90,000 retail customers. The bill requires each GDU to file a clean heat plan (plan) with the public utilities commission (PUC). A plan must demonstrate how the GDU will use clean heat resources to meet clean heat targets (targets) established by the act. The targets are a 4% reduction below 2015 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels by 2025 and 22% below 2015 GHG emission levels by 2030.The PUC will initiate a rule-making proceeding by October 1, 2021, to update demand-side management rules. The PUC will establish a cost cap for each GDU's compliance with its plan. The cost cap is 2.5% of annual gas bills for all of a GDU's full-service customers. The PUC is directed to approve a plan if the PUC finds that doing so is in the public interest.A municipal GDU must file a plan with the air quality control commission (AQCC) that demonstrates a 4% GHG emission reduction by 2025 and a 22% GHG emission reduction by 2030, both as compared with 2015 levels. Small GDUs may file a plan, which is subject to the cost cap and must contain its own targets.Section 2 requires the AQCC to initiate a rule-making proceeding by September 1, 2022, to establish protocols for recovered methane that utilities must use in forecasting their emission reductions.Section 3 directs the oil and gas conservation commission (commission) to conduct a study to evaluate the resources that would be needed to ensure the safe and effective regulation of injection wells used for sequestration of GHG.Section 4 makes the following appropriations:$92,482 and 1.0 FTE is appropriated from the public utilities commission fixed utility fund to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the PUC;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (06/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 24–40 (fail) · lower
• AMEND — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• AMD — 24–40 (fail) · lower
• CONCUR — 21–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Tracey Bernett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-15T06:00:00+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
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5448e11-7ab5-43be-a158-3ff332f5507f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).