republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1105.md

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Bill	Low-income Utility Payment Assistance Contributions	Section 1 of the act authorizes the department of human services (department) to make fuel assistance payments to supplemental nutrition assistance program recipients to maximize their federal heating and cooling standard utility allowance. Money for the fuel assistance payments comes from a portion of the money collected from the energy assistance system benefit charge (charge), which is a monthly charge that investor-owned electric and gas utilities are required to collect from their customers. Money for the fuel assistance payments is credited to the supplemental utility assistance fund, which fund is continuously appropriated to the department.Section 2 removes the low-income energy assistance program administered by Energy Outreach Colorado (EOC) from the grant program reserve funded by tier 2 severance tax operational fund money.Section 3 clarifies that the definition of a "low-income utility customer", with regard to the public utilities commission's (PUC) consideration of a preference or advantage that a gas or electric utility grants a low-income utility customer, means a utility customer who meets the department's income eligibility criteria.Sections 4 and 5 make modifications to the legislative commission on low-income energy assistance, wherein section 4 expands the commission's scope to include water utility assistance and section 5 reduces the composition of the commission from 11 members to 7 members. Section 5 moves the commission from the department to the Colorado energy office (office) on May 1, 2022. Section 5 also requires the commission to:Advise the office on grants awarded from the federal department of energy regarding the office's weatherization assistance program;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1105	Colorado HB 21-1105 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Chris Hansen Chris Kennedy Kevin Priola	13	18	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/acee000e-8b6d-465b-b8be-81882bda64cc	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1105	18e583d88d9d80021349c19f5f42578257e0bb0906c2ec9d5ffc0ad4b94d6c57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1105 (2021A) — Low-income Utility Payment Assistance Contributions

Section 1 of the act authorizes the department of human services (department) to make fuel assistance payments to supplemental nutrition assistance program recipients to maximize their federal heating and cooling standard utility allowance. Money for the fuel assistance payments comes from a portion of the money collected from the energy assistance system benefit charge (charge), which is a monthly charge that investor-owned electric and gas utilities are required to collect from their customers. Money for the fuel assistance payments is credited to the supplemental utility assistance fund, which fund is continuously appropriated to the department.Section 2 removes the low-income energy assistance program administered by Energy Outreach Colorado (EOC) from the grant program reserve funded by tier 2 severance tax operational fund money.Section 3 clarifies that the definition of a "low-income utility customer", with regard to the public utilities commission's (PUC) consideration of a preference or advantage that a gas or electric utility grants a low-income utility customer, means a utility customer who meets the department's income eligibility criteria.Sections 4 and 5 make modifications to the legislative commission on low-income energy assistance, wherein section 4 expands the commission's scope to include water utility assistance and section 5 reduces the composition of the commission from 11 members to 7 members. Section 5 moves the commission from the department to the Colorado energy office (office) on May 1, 2022. Section 5 also requires the commission to:Advise the office on grants awarded from the federal department of energy regarding the office's weatherization assistance program;

Version chain

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

1. Amendment L.017 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (05/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Final Act (06/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA1 (04/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA2 (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA3 (05/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. PA4 (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Reengrossed (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Rerevised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
12. Revised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
13. Signed Act (07/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 40–23 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 42–22 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 21–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Chris Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kevin Priola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acee000e-8b6d-465b-b8be-81882bda64cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).