republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1025.md

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Bill	Nonsubstantive Emails And Open Meetings Law	Under current provisions of the Open Meetings Law (OML), if elected officials use electronic mail to discuss pending legislation or other public business among themselves, the electronic mail constitutes a meeting that is subject to the OML's requirements. The act substitutes the word "exchange" for the word "use" in describing the type of electronic mail communication that triggers the application of the OML.The act also clarifies existing statutory provisions to specify that electronic mail communication between elected officials that does not relate to the merits or substance of pending legislation or other public business is not a meeting for OML purposes. Under the act, the type of electronic communication that also does not constitute a meeting for OML purposes includes electronic communication regarding scheduling and availability as well as electronic communication that is sent by an elected official for the purpose of forwarding information, responding to an inquiry from an individual who is not a member of the state or local public body, or posing a question for later discussion by the public body. The act defines the term "merits or substance" to mean any discussion, debate, or exchange of ideas, either generally or specifically, related to the essence of any public policy proposition, specific proposal, or any other matter being considered by the governing entity.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1025	Colorado HB 21-1025 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Jeni James Arndt Joann Ginal	8	13	2	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b89928da-0b92-4552-8df3-066590b11515	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1025	752d43bfaf4e5444dc3586e33d619cf0d6f4ee0a0e265d7c7975efaa2e4941ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1025 (2021A) — Nonsubstantive Emails And Open Meetings Law

Under current provisions of the Open Meetings Law (OML), if elected officials use electronic mail to discuss pending legislation or other public business among themselves, the electronic mail constitutes a meeting that is subject to the OML's requirements. The act substitutes the word "exchange" for the word "use" in describing the type of electronic mail communication that triggers the application of the OML.The act also clarifies existing statutory provisions to specify that electronic mail communication between elected officials that does not relate to the merits or substance of pending legislation or other public business is not a meeting for OML purposes. Under the act, the type of electronic communication that also does not constitute a meeting for OML purposes includes electronic communication regarding scheduling and availability as well as electronic communication that is sent by an elected official for the purpose of forwarding information, responding to an inquiry from an individual who is not a member of the state or local public body, or posing a question for later discussion by the public body. The act defines the term "merits or substance" to mean any discussion, debate, or exchange of ideas, either generally or specifically, related to the essence of any public policy proposition, specific proposal, or any other matter being considered by the governing entity.(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 (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 52–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeni James Arndt — primary (person)
• Joann Ginal — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 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 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2021-02-25T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/01/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-02-22T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, 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/b89928da-0b92-4552-8df3-066590b11515. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).