republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-020.md

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Bill	Energy Equipment And Facility Property Tax Valuation	The act ensures that clean energy resources and energy storage systems used to store electricity are assessed for valuation for the purpose of property taxation in a similar manner to renewable energy facility property used to generate and deliver electricity. The act also modifies the income approach for certain renewable energy facilities by extending the"tax factor" from a 20-year period to a 30-year period. It also specifies that after the 20- or 30-year period, as applicable, a tax factor is not applied and the taxable value shall not exceed the depreciated value floor calculated using the cost basis method. The administrator is also required to utilize the income approach for solar energy facilities that generate 2 megawatts or less, so that similar facilities will be valued in the same manner.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-020	Colorado SB 21-020 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Chris Hansen Dennis Hisey Matt Soper	8	15	3	2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00	2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/11b3d819-cbca-4a7e-aa37-d4fe20efed59	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-020	f71b0e1b282dff728beab26b5ea9b6bd1dad5684dbedbf081ffbd939c8e8d023	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 21-020 (2021A) — Energy Equipment And Facility Property Tax Valuation

The act ensures that clean energy resources and energy storage systems used to store electricity are assessed for valuation for the purpose of property taxation in a similar manner to renewable energy facility property used to generate and deliver electricity. The act also modifies the income approach for certain renewable energy facilities by extending the"tax factor" from a 20-year period to a 30-year period. It also specifies that after the 20- or 30-year period, as applicable, a tax factor is not applied and the taxable value shall not exceed the depreciated value floor calculated using the cost basis method. The administrator is also required to utilize the income approach for solar energy facilities that generate 2 megawatts or less, so that similar facilities will be valued in the same manner.(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 (03/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (04/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (02/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. Reengrossed (03/02/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Rerevised (04/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Revised (04/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Signed Act (04/22/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 42–21 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 29–4 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 31–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Chris Hansen — primary (person)
• Dennis Hisey — primary (person)
• Matt Soper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-04T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment + Finance introduction
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2021-03-02T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-01T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-02-24T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-16T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11b3d819-cbca-4a7e-aa37-d4fe20efed59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).