republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1109.md

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Bill	Broadband Board Changes To Expand Broadband Service	The act moves the broadband deployment board (board) from the department of regulatory agencies (department) to the office of information technology (office) and, on September 1, 2021, reduces the membership of the board from 16 to 11 members.The board is required to develop a request for proposal process through which the board will solicit bids for proposed projects that serve critically unserved areas of the state identified by the office. The board is required to reserve up to 60% of the money from the high cost support mechanism that is allocated for broadband deployment to award grants to proposed projects solicited through the request for proposal process. "Critically unserved" is defined in the act to mean a household or area that lacks access to at least one provider of nonsatellite broadband service delivered at measurable speeds of at least 10 megabits per second downstream and one megabit per second upstream or at measurable speeds of at least one-half of the minimum measurable speeds that qualify as broadband under the federal communications commission's definition, rounded up, whichever is faster.The act also:Requires an applicant or appellant to submit either written certification from a local entity indicating that the area to be served by the applicant's project is an unserved area or a statistically representative number of speed tests performed on an incumbent provider's network and conducted in accordance with industry-standard speed-test protocols;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1109	Colorado HB 21-1109 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Brianna Titone Don Coram Jeff Bridges Matt Soper	11	18	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/29534f6d-668f-4919-9da7-8d4419d99566	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1109	e7c8efc300e61d8e0d64bc2369bc45dc368b9f19b47a9dace3be275b8261958d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1109 (2021A) — Broadband Board Changes To Expand Broadband Service

The act moves the broadband deployment board (board) from the department of regulatory agencies (department) to the office of information technology (office) and, on September 1, 2021, reduces the membership of the board from 16 to 11 members.The board is required to develop a request for proposal process through which the board will solicit bids for proposed projects that serve critically unserved areas of the state identified by the office. The board is required to reserve up to 60% of the money from the high cost support mechanism that is allocated for broadband deployment to award grants to proposed projects solicited through the request for proposal process. "Critically unserved" is defined in the act to mean a household or area that lacks access to at least one provider of nonsatellite broadband service delivered at measurable speeds of at least 10 megabits per second downstream and one megabit per second upstream or at measurable speeds of at least one-half of the minimum measurable speeds that qualify as broadband under the federal communications commission's definition, rounded up, whichever is faster.The act also:Requires an applicant or appellant to submit either written certification from a local entity indicating that the area to be served by the applicant's project is an unserved area or a statistically representative number of speed tests performed on an incumbent provider's network and conducted in accordance with industry-standard speed-test protocols;

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 (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (03/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/20/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (07/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 30–4 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 47–14 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 46–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brianna Titone — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology 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 - Committee, Floor reading-2
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government + Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29534f6d-668f-4919-9da7-8d4419d99566. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).