republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-013.md

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Bill	Reversing COVID-related Learning Loss	The act directs the department of education (department) to identify educational products, strategies, and services that have demonstrated effectiveness in identifying and reversing student learning loss that has been caused by the suspension of in-person learning. The department must create and maintain a resource bank of examples of educational products, explanations of and instructions for implementing strategies and educational services, and models of professional development programs related to using the products and implementing the strategies and services. School districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools (local education providers) may submit information to the department concerning products, strategies, and services that they have used with success, and the department must include them in the resource bank. The department must also provide information concerning public or private nonprofit entities that local education providers may work with in providing student support. The act also directs the department, to the extent possible within existing resources, to provide technical assistance to local education providers upon request.The act recognizes the amount of federal COVID-relief money that the department is expected to receive and encourages the department to use as much as possible of the amount received to fund learning recovery initiatives. The act requires the department to prepare a report concerning the department's use of the federal money received and submit the report to the education committees of the general assembly and post the report on the department's website.The act directs the board of cooperative services that administers the statewide supplemental online and blended learning program (administering BOCES) to partner with local education providers for delivery of supplemental online learning recovery courses for students in elementary and secondary schools. The administering BOCES and local education providers are also directed to partner with nonprofit entities and community-based organizations to expand the availability of, and students' access to, supplemental online learning recovery courses. The administering BOCES and the local education providers must provide information concerning the availability of the learning recovery courses and other supplemental online courses.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-013	Colorado SB 21-013 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Bacon Meg Froelich Rhonda Fields	10	14	4	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5b55ad91-d3ee-4301-b215-4a3a413ff9e5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-013	303d99bf43e64dcb244480d400e9f7863c13c0fc4927fa33cd90616a55b026ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-013 (2021A) — Reversing COVID-related Learning Loss

The act directs the department of education (department) to identify educational products, strategies, and services that have demonstrated effectiveness in identifying and reversing student learning loss that has been caused by the suspension of in-person learning. The department must create and maintain a resource bank of examples of educational products, explanations of and instructions for implementing strategies and educational services, and models of professional development programs related to using the products and implementing the strategies and services. School districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools (local education providers) may submit information to the department concerning products, strategies, and services that they have used with success, and the department must include them in the resource bank. The department must also provide information concerning public or private nonprofit entities that local education providers may work with in providing student support. The act also directs the department, to the extent possible within existing resources, to provide technical assistance to local education providers upon request.The act recognizes the amount of federal COVID-relief money that the department is expected to receive and encourages the department to use as much as possible of the amount received to fund learning recovery initiatives. The act requires the department to prepare a report concerning the department's use of the federal money received and submit the report to the education committees of the general assembly and post the report on the department's website.The act directs the board of cooperative services that administers the statewide supplemental online and blended learning program (administering BOCES) to partner with local education providers for delivery of supplemental online learning recovery courses for students in elementary and secondary schools. The administering BOCES and local education providers are also directed to partner with nonprofit entities and community-based organizations to expand the availability of, and students' access to, supplemental online learning recovery courses. The administering BOCES and the local education providers must provide information concerning the availability of the learning recovery courses and other supplemental online courses.(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 (03/24/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/30/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/19/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (03/25/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (04/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (04/26/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 42–21 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer Bacon — primary (person)
• Meg Froelich — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-25T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2021-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b55ad91-d3ee-4301-b215-4a3a413ff9e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).