republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1194.md

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Bill	Immigration Legal Defense Fund	The act creates the immigration legal defense fund (fund). The department of labor and employment, as the administrator, awards grants from the fund to qualifying nonprofit organizations (organizations) that provide legal advice, counseling, and representation for, and on behalf of, indigent clients who are subject to an immigration proceeding. The act lists permissible uses of grant money awarded from the fund.Organizations that receive a grant from the fund are required to report to the administrator certain information about persons served and services provided by the organization.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $100,000 to the immigration legal defense fund from the general fund.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1194	Colorado HB 21-1194 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Dominick Moreno Kerry Tipper Naquetta Ricks	11	16	4	2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-25T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/117d1cb7-324b-4a2c-8364-2ac29203972e	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1194	883812c1ae589e43ce79e2f1f2340e708b8f8e2caa4fb2f38709b7f789ec2566	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1194 (2021A) — Immigration Legal Defense Fund

The act creates the immigration legal defense fund (fund). The department of labor and employment, as the administrator, awards grants from the fund to qualifying nonprofit organizations (organizations) that provide legal advice, counseling, and representation for, and on behalf of, indigent clients who are subject to an immigration proceeding. The act lists permissible uses of grant money awarded from the fund.Organizations that receive a grant from the fund are required to report to the administrator certain information about persons served and services provided by the organization.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $100,000 to the immigration legal defense fund from the general fund.(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 (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 20–14 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 41–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
• Kerry Tipper — primary (person)
• Naquetta Ricks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-25T06:00:00+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
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/117d1cb7-324b-4a2c-8364-2ac29203972e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).