republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1221.md

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Bill	Bullying Prevention And Education In Schools	The act requires the department of education (department) to utilize a stakeholder process when updating the model bullying prevention and education policy (model policy), which process must include the parents of students who have been bullied. At a minimum, the model policy must clearly differentiate between a conflict and bullying and differentiate between harassment and bullying and clarify the role of cyberbullying during online instruction, which may occur on or off school property.Current law requires each school district and charter school to adopt a safe school plan that includes:A conduct and discipline code with a specific policy concerning bullying prevention and education (bullying policy). The act requires the bullying policy to incorporate the approaches, policies, and practices outlined in the model policy.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1221	Colorado HB 21-1221 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Don Coram Lisa Cutter Mary Young	9	12	2	2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c9d5899e-dc73-40ee-8c6e-78b98199c49a	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1221	e9644969d7b18f56abef7b24b1b1b4c8232a186ebaca273f8c3775ee965c55c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1221 (2021A) — Bullying Prevention And Education In Schools

The act requires the department of education (department) to utilize a stakeholder process when updating the model bullying prevention and education policy (model policy), which process must include the parents of students who have been bullied. At a minimum, the model policy must clearly differentiate between a conflict and bullying and differentiate between harassment and bullying and clarify the role of cyberbullying during online instruction, which may occur on or off school property.Current law requires each school district and charter school to adopt a safe school plan that includes:A conduct and discipline code with a specific policy concerning bullying prevention and education (bullying policy). The act requires the bullying policy to incorporate the approaches, policies, and practices outlined in the model policy.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/11/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 57–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Lisa Cutter — primary (person)
• Mary Young — 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
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9d5899e-dc73-40ee-8c6e-78b98199c49a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).