republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-181.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equity Strategic Plan Address Health Disparities"
description: "The act renames the existing \"health disparities grant program\" as the \"health disparities and community grant program\" (program) and expands the program to authorize the office of health equity (office) to:Award grants from money currently transferred from the prevention, early detection, and treatment fund to the health disparities grant program fund (fund) for the purpose of positively affecting social determinants of health to reduce the risk of future disease and exacerbating health disparities in underrepresented populations; and"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-181"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-181 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Coram", "Leslie Herod", "Rhonda Fields", "Yadira Caraveo"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e695aca-0380-4e80-bdf6-c97dda6278fc"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-181"
source_hash: "8b783b56c28f0a20e7b4e9959e39f1c46ab798cd859af0620e6150ea3bdb8180"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado SB 21-181 (2021A) — Equity Strategic Plan Address Health Disparities

The act renames the existing "health disparities grant program" as the "health disparities and community grant program" (program) and expands the program to authorize the office of health equity (office) to:Award grants from money currently transferred from the prevention, early detection, and treatment fund to the health disparities grant program fund (fund) for the purpose of positively affecting social determinants of health to reduce the risk of future disease and exacerbating health disparities in underrepresented populations; and

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_sb181_h_app_004.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/17/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181shhs_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (04/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181shhsapp.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (05/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_181_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (07/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_181_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **26–8** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–22** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **26–9** (pass) · upper
- AMEND — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Don Coram — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)
- Yadira Caraveo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-06T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-17T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services `introduction`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-04T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e695aca-0380-4e80-bdf6-c97dda6278fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).