republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1103.md

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Bill	Media Literacy Implementation	The act requires the department of education (department) to create and maintain an online resource bank of materials and resources pertaining to media literacy. At a minimum, the resource bank must include the materials and resources recommended in the media literacy advisory committee's report. The department shall promulgate rules, if necessary, to implement a procedure through which a person may provide comment on a material or resource within the resource bank, including a comment recommending the removal or inclusion of a material or resource within the resource bank.The act requires the department, upon the request of a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services, and subject to available resources, to provide technical assistance to a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services with implementing policies and procedures, best practices, and recommendations related to media literacy.The act clarifies that a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services is not required to adopt or implement any material or resource from the resource bank into its curriculum.The act requires the state board of education to review and adopt revisions that implement media literacy within reading, writing, and civics standards.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1103	Colorado HB 21-1103 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Brittany Pettersen Don Coram Lisa Cutter	9	21	7	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/86047bac-615e-4711-8d99-08322a3ddf59	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1103	8b5189f194fae022331fb371ec9edb30291582afff3a9c9f3eca11c0d308d33e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1103 (2021A) — Media Literacy Implementation

The act requires the department of education (department) to create and maintain an online resource bank of materials and resources pertaining to media literacy. At a minimum, the resource bank must include the materials and resources recommended in the media literacy advisory committee's report. The department shall promulgate rules, if necessary, to implement a procedure through which a person may provide comment on a material or resource within the resource bank, including a comment recommending the removal or inclusion of a material or resource within the resource bank.The act requires the department, upon the request of a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services, and subject to available resources, to provide technical assistance to a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services with implementing policies and procedures, best practices, and recommendations related to media literacy.The act clarifies that a school district, district charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services is not required to adopt or implement any material or resource from the resource bank into its curriculum.The act requires the state board of education to review and adopt revisions that implement media literacy within reading, writing, and civics standards.(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 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (04/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (05/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• COW * — 14–20 (fail) · upper
• CONCUR — 60–1 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 38–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• AMD — 21–37 (fail) · lower
• AMD — 21–37 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Brittany Pettersen — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/19/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/10/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86047bac-615e-4711-8d99-08322a3ddf59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).