republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1126.md

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Bill	State Architect Authority Execute Certain Leases	House Bill 14-1387, enacted in 2014, inadvertently removed, through the use of the definition of "real property", the authority of the department of personnel (department) to negotiate and execute leases for state use of privately owned property, including land, office space, buildings, and special use interests. This eliminated a decades-old policy for the department to serve as the central authority to assist state agencies and state institutions of higher education to lease needed office space and other property interests. The department has been operating under custom and practice to keep negotiating and executing such leases since House Bill 14-1387 was enacted.The act officially reinstates this authority to the office of the state architect in the department, which houses the real estate program. The real estate program is the program responsible for centralized leasing.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1126	Colorado HB 21-1126 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Edie Hooton Janice Rich Jerry Sonnenberg Tammy Story	8	13	2	2021-02-19T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4a554e4e-2173-4081-bf9c-3023f9de0d2f	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1126	0ebf004b66c08740dbb739510287115cc2313190013b0b3e22ac3ce3a98c332d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1126 (2021A) — State Architect Authority Execute Certain Leases

House Bill 14-1387, enacted in 2014, inadvertently removed, through the use of the definition of "real property", the authority of the department of personnel (department) to negotiate and execute leases for state use of privately owned property, including land, office space, buildings, and special use interests. This eliminated a decades-old policy for the department to serve as the central authority to assist state agencies and state institutions of higher education to lease needed office space and other property interests. The department has been operating under custom and practice to keep negotiating and executing such leases since House Bill 14-1387 was enacted.The act officially reinstates this authority to the office of the state architect in the department, which houses the real estate program. The real estate program is the program responsible for centralized leasing.(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 (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (03/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 61–2 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edie Hooton — primary (person)
• Janice Rich — primary (person)
• Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
• Tammy Story — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-19T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a554e4e-2173-4081-bf9c-3023f9de0d2f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).