republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-280.md

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Bill	Bias-motivated Crimes	The act specifies that for harassment that is bias-motivated or a bias-motivated crime, the bias motivation only needs to be part of the defendant's motivation in committing the crime.The act makes the crime of harassment when the harassment is bias-motivated a victim rights act crime, which provides a victim certain statutory rights.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-280	Colorado SB 21-280 (2021A)	bill		enacted	John Cooke Matt Soper Mike Weissman Rhonda Fields	9	13	7	2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/96ed1196-a7d8-404d-a4d7-f1f444b986f5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-280	93403d5df0bae384c688229bab3e96d26a5bf0d0bd97aa452ac0a2d54589b2f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-280 (2021A) — Bias-motivated Crimes

The act specifies that for harassment that is bias-motivated or a bias-motivated crime, the bias motivation only needs to be part of the defendant's motivation in committing the crime.The act makes the crime of harassment when the harassment is bias-motivated a victim rights act crime, which provides a victim certain statutory rights.(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 (05/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (05/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 62–1 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• PERM — 58–4 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 55–8 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John Cooke — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)
• Mike Weissman — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96ed1196-a7d8-404d-a4d7-f1f444b986f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).