republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1242.md

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Bill	Create Agricultural Drought And Climate Resilience Office	The act creates in the department of agriculture the agricultural drought and climate resilience office (office). The office may provide voluntary technical assistance, nonregulatory programs, and incentives that increase the ability to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, adapt to, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to drought or the climate. The commissioner of agriculture shall appoint the head of the office and may adopt rules necessary for the office's administration after convening a stakeholder group.Except for a program or support administered by the office to address immediate needs as a result of disaster, including wildfire and drought, or a program that was in existence on January 1, 2021:A program administered by the office must be designed to benefit bona fide agricultural producers actively engaged in agriculture;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1242	Colorado HB 21-1242 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Kerry Donovan	11	19	5	2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6c91ef74-b8fc-42fe-81fe-a7e4b5b47bc2	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1242	5593fef6e3728df89f80ce38ef0e3beeee0aed2c83c6bbdeaf1aed80d7023945	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1242 (2021A) — Create Agricultural Drought And Climate Resilience Office

The act creates in the department of agriculture the agricultural drought and climate resilience office (office). The office may provide voluntary technical assistance, nonregulatory programs, and incentives that increase the ability to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, adapt to, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to drought or the climate. The commissioner of agriculture shall appoint the head of the office and may adopt rules necessary for the office's administration after convening a stakeholder group.Except for a program or support administered by the office to address immediate needs as a result of disaster, including wildfire and drought, or a program that was in existence on January 1, 2021:A program administered by the office must be designed to benefit bona fide agricultural producers actively engaged in agriculture;

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/15/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (04/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 41–23 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 46–18 (pass) · lower
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 40–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Kerry Donovan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-24T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources introduction
• 2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over to 04/21/2021 - No Amendments
• 2021-04-16T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Water introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c91ef74-b8fc-42fe-81fe-a7e4b5b47bc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).