republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1231.md

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Bill	United States Space Force	The act authorizes the Space National Guard to be added to provisions in statute that mention the Army National Guard and Air National Guard. The federal government is likely to create the Space National Guard in the "FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act". Implementing the Space National Guard in existing statute now will allow the Air National Guard space units to transition to the Space National Guard once the federal government establishes the Space National Guard.The act also adds "Space Force" to provisions in statute that list the branches of the armed forces: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guard.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1231	Colorado HB 21-1231 (2021A)	bill		enacted	David Ortiz Jeff Bridges Mike Lynch Rhonda Fields	8	12	2	2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00	2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/65906da6-c9ee-4208-acb9-9a4a6bf6a087	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1231	9a486eb8695561f81681439a209732cd9587b29658d57e649424ddf31291b853	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1231 (2021A) — United States Space Force

The act authorizes the Space National Guard to be added to provisions in statute that mention the Army National Guard and Air National Guard. The federal government is likely to create the Space National Guard in the "FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act". Implementing the Space National Guard in existing statute now will allow the Air National Guard space units to transition to the Space National Guard once the federal government establishes the Space National Guard.The act also adds "Space Force" to provisions in statute that list the branches of the armed forces: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guard.(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 (04/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/18/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (05/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 63–0 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Ortiz — primary (person)
• Jeff Bridges — primary (person)
• Mike Lynch — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs introduction
• 2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65906da6-c9ee-4208-acb9-9a4a6bf6a087. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).