republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1290.md

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Bill	Additional Funding For Just Transition	The act makes general fund transfers of $8,000,000 to the just transition cash fund (fund) and $7,000,000 to a newly created coal transition worker assistance program account (account) in the fund. The just transition office (office) is required to expend at least 70% of the money transferred to the fund by the close of state fiscal year (FY) 2021-22 and any remaining money in state FY 2022-23 to implement the final just transition plan for Colorado and to provide supplemental funding for existing state programs that the office identifies as the most effective vehicles for targeted investment in coal transition communities. In expending the money, the office is required to develop specific criteria for prioritizing the expenditures, emphasize investment in tier one transition communities, as defined by the act, and support specified types of programs in accordance with specified requirements and limitations.Subject to specified requirements and limitations, the department of labor and employment (CDLE) is required to expend at least 70% of the money transferred to the account by the close of state FY 2021-22 and any remaining money in state FY 2022-23 first for assistance programs that directly assist coal transition workers and then, if money remains, to support family and other household members of coal transition workers and create and implement a pilot program to test innovative coal transition work support programs.The act also:Amends and supplements existing definitions of "coal transition community" and "coal transition worker" to improve the implementation of just transition.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1290	Colorado HB 21-1290 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Bob Rankin Daneya Esgar Perry Will Stephen Fenberg	10	15	2	2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-30T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/578828b4-fb4d-480f-912c-daa017753e66	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1290	e0d25763f8e49c8de22359fa165a3193523edac540b2131d02d4b7a806bf55ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1290 (2021A) — Additional Funding For Just Transition

The act makes general fund transfers of $8,000,000 to the just transition cash fund (fund) and $7,000,000 to a newly created coal transition worker assistance program account (account) in the fund. The just transition office (office) is required to expend at least 70% of the money transferred to the fund by the close of state fiscal year (FY) 2021-22 and any remaining money in state FY 2022-23 to implement the final just transition plan for Colorado and to provide supplemental funding for existing state programs that the office identifies as the most effective vehicles for targeted investment in coal transition communities. In expending the money, the office is required to develop specific criteria for prioritizing the expenditures, emphasize investment in tier one transition communities, as defined by the act, and support specified types of programs in accordance with specified requirements and limitations.Subject to specified requirements and limitations, the department of labor and employment (CDLE) is required to expend at least 70% of the money transferred to the account by the close of state FY 2021-22 and any remaining money in state FY 2022-23 first for assistance programs that directly assist coal transition workers and then, if money remains, to support family and other household members of coal transition workers and create and implement a pilot program to test innovative coal transition work support programs.The act also:Amends and supplements existing definitions of "coal transition community" and "coal transition worker" to improve the implementation of just transition.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (05/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/14/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/20/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 48–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Rankin — primary (person)
• Daneya Esgar — primary (person)
• Perry Will — primary (person)
• Stephen Fenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-30T06:00:00+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
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor, & Technology introduction
• 2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-21T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/578828b4-fb4d-480f-912c-daa017753e66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).