republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1253.md

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Bill	Renewable And Clean Energy Project Grants	The act transfers $5 million from the general fund to the local government severance tax fund for the purpose of funding grants to local governments for renewable and clean energy infrastructure implementation projects. The grants must be made by August 15, 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter, and the department of local affairs, which makes the grants, is required to report to the general assembly regarding the grants during its 2022 annual "SMART Act" presentation to legislative committees of reference. $5 million is appropriated from the local government severance tax fund to the division of local government of the department of local affairs for state fiscal year 2020-21 so that the division can make the grants, and any of the money not expended before July 1, 2021, is further appropriated to the division for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 state fiscal years for the same purpose.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1253	Colorado HB 21-1253 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Faith Winter Matt Gray Meg Froelich	8	14	2	2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-14T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9c2aa9a7-d5ec-499f-a147-b2fbe79fea14	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1253	fad49c32a23fe152e3104950c4d139ea4873187d306f11456bfe9b21df82322d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1253 (2021A) — Renewable And Clean Energy Project Grants

The act transfers $5 million from the general fund to the local government severance tax fund for the purpose of funding grants to local governments for renewable and clean energy infrastructure implementation projects. The grants must be made by August 15, 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter, and the department of local affairs, which makes the grants, is required to report to the general assembly regarding the grants during its 2022 annual "SMART Act" presentation to legislative committees of reference. $5 million is appropriated from the local government severance tax fund to the division of local government of the department of local affairs for state fiscal year 2020-21 so that the division can make the grants, and any of the money not expended before July 1, 2021, is further appropriated to the division for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 state fiscal years for the same purpose.(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 (04/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/31/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (04/29/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (06/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 40–23 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 27–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Faith Winter — primary (person)
• Matt Gray — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-14T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-11T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation & Energy introduction
• 2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c2aa9a7-d5ec-499f-a147-b2fbe79fea14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).