republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1011.md

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Bill	Multilingual Ballot Access For Voters	The act requires the secretary of state (secretary) and county clerk and recorders (county clerk) of certain counties to provide multilingual ballot access.The secretary is required to establish a multilingual ballot hotline (hotline) to provide access to qualified translators or interpreters in each of the languages in the state that has at least 2,000 citizens age 18 years or older who speak English less than very well and who speak a shared minority language at home, and in any additional languages the secretary determines by rules is necessary to assist electors in translating ballot language. The secretary is required to establish the hotline for use during the general election held in November 2022, and for every general election and statewide odd-year election thereafter. The act specifies when the hotline must be available during voting periods. The secretary is also required to:Provide notice of the hotline to electors through election day;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1011	Colorado HB 21-1011 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Dominick Moreno Julie Gonzales Yadira Caraveo	11	17	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d1aa813a-3c7c-43c6-bebd-a3263cf778b7	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1011	bf9d7b735cbd3d8fa24aa3644610a203e4a9f8ad81e417c4caeb5b30c08a9c78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1011 (2021A) — Multilingual Ballot Access For Voters

The act requires the secretary of state (secretary) and county clerk and recorders (county clerk) of certain counties to provide multilingual ballot access.The secretary is required to establish a multilingual ballot hotline (hotline) to provide access to qualified translators or interpreters in each of the languages in the state that has at least 2,000 citizens age 18 years or older who speak English less than very well and who speak a shared minority language at home, and in any additional languages the secretary determines by rules is necessary to assist electors in translating ballot language. The secretary is required to establish the hotline for use during the general election held in November 2022, and for every general election and statewide odd-year election thereafter. The act specifies when the hotline must be available during voting periods. The secretary is also required to:Provide notice of the hotline to electors through election day;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 40–22 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–23 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 40–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-21T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Legislative Council Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Legislative Council referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1aa813a-3c7c-43c6-bebd-a3263cf778b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).