republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1294.md

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Bill	K-12 Education Accountability Systems Performance Audit	The act directs the state auditor to contract with a public or private entity (contractor) to conduct a performance audit of the statewide system of standards and assessments and the statewide education accountability system. The act specifies the issues that the performance audit must address. By November 15, 2022, and following release by the legislative audit committee, the final report of the performance audit must be submitted to the commissioner of education, the state board of education, and the education committees of the general assembly.The act specifies the authority of the state auditor and the contractor to access nonfinancial records and information held by the department of education or held by public schools, school districts, boards of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute, if the records and information are not available from the department or from other sources.For the 2021-22 fiscal year, the act appropriates $300,000 from the general fund to the legislative department for use by the office of the state auditor and appropriates $52,000 from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1294	Colorado HB 21-1294 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Robert Rodriguez Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez Shannon Bird	10	19	5	2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00	2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f690bc3f-682d-45ce-bf15-e722e4f38327	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1294	e794e27a3da9e14489a5a661f83114af138f4c083b998edcc13e20d410453f64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1294 (2021A) — K-12 Education Accountability Systems Performance Audit

The act directs the state auditor to contract with a public or private entity (contractor) to conduct a performance audit of the statewide system of standards and assessments and the statewide education accountability system. The act specifies the issues that the performance audit must address. By November 15, 2022, and following release by the legislative audit committee, the final report of the performance audit must be submitted to the commissioner of education, the state board of education, and the education committees of the general assembly.The act specifies the authority of the state auditor and the contractor to access nonfinancial records and information held by the department of education or held by public schools, school districts, boards of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute, if the records and information are not available from the department or from other sources.For the 2021-22 fiscal year, the act appropriates $300,000 from the general fund to the legislative department for use by the office of the state auditor and appropriates $52,000 from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act.(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 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (05/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (07/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 40–24 (pass) · lower
• REPASS — 41–24 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez — primary (person)
• Shannon Bird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-07-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-05-21T06:00:00+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 Education Refer Amended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f690bc3f-682d-45ce-bf15-e722e4f38327. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).