republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-053.md

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Bill	Racial Equity Study	The act establishes the Black Coloradan racial equity commission (commission) in the legislative department to conduct a study to determine, and make recommendations related to, any historical and ongoing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racism on Black Coloradans that may be attributed to Colorado state practices, systems, and policies. The study includes historical research conducted by the state historical society (society), commonly known as history Colorado, and an economic analysis conducted by a third party.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-053	Colorado SB 24-053 (2024A)	bill		enacted	James Coleman Leslie Herod Naquetta Ricks	11	19	5	2024-01-17T07:00:00+00:00	2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/146e5148-c006-4996-9c4b-daf90899ed43	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-053	eedfb87ad862c99d4e5a0dc35a682f02b718c0fba21d52ea27b5b61096c2edaa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-053 (2024A) — Racial Equity Study

The act establishes the Black Coloradan racial equity commission (commission) in the legislative department to conduct a study to determine, and make recommendations related to, any historical and ongoing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racism on Black Coloradans that may be attributed to Colorado state practices, systems, and policies. The study includes historical research conducted by the state historical society (society), commonly known as history Colorado, and an economic analysis conducted by a third party.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/19/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/16/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/17/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (02/09/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (03/15/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/20/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/03/2024) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/02/2024) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/04/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• COW * — 12–22 (fail) · upper
• BILL — 45–19 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• James Coleman — primary (person)
• Leslie Herod — primary (person)
• Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2024-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Legislative Council Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Refer Unamended to Legislative Council referral-committee
• 2024-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction
• 2024-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2024-03-15T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-02-08T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-17T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/146e5148-c006-4996-9c4b-daf90899ed43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).