republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1168.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Historically Underutilized Businesses Local Government Procurement"
description: "The act requires the department of local affairs (department), no later than August 13, 2021, to establish a pilot program to help local governments identify perceptual and substantial barriers to entry for historically underutilized businesses in local government procurement.The act requires local governments participating in the pilot program to consider a number of items, such as:Identifying implementation needs, such as labor and technology, for historically underutilized businesses preference programs for local government procurement (programs);"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "HB 21-1168"
citation: "Colorado HB 21-1168 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Kolker", "Jennifer Bacon", "Naquetta Ricks"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8668f1f-ee4b-445e-ac0b-43ac03dfdc32"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1168"
source_hash: "7de6e5398f9e4b4846bff6200ce8d294b7d246d7c94a0a311027e66390e5949d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 21-1168 (2021A) — Historically Underutilized Businesses Local Government Procurement

The act requires the department of local affairs (department), no later than August 13, 2021, to establish a pilot program to help local governments identify perceptual and substantial barriers to entry for historically underutilized businesses in local government procurement.The act requires local governments participating in the pilot program to consider a number of items, such as:Identifying implementation needs, such as labor and technology, for historically underutilized businesses preference programs for local government procurement (programs);

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_hb1168_s_fin_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168tlg_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168fin.pdf)
7. **Reengrossed (04/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_ren.pdf)
8. **Rerevised (05/11/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_rer.pdf)
9. **Revised (05/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_1168_rev.pdf)
10. **Signed Act (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_1168_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **39–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **21–12** (pass) · upper
- AMD — **20–42** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Kolker — primary (person)
- Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
- Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-10T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments `reading-2`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance `introduction`
- **2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-23T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-04-19T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8668f1f-ee4b-445e-ac0b-43ac03dfdc32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).