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type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Air Quality Improvement Grants"
description: "The act transfers $10 million from the general fund to the public school capital construction assistance fund (assistance fund) for the purpose of providing \"Building Excellent Schools Today Act\" (BEST) grants to fund public school air quality improvement projects. The public school capital construction assistance board (board) is authorized to make the grants and is required to prioritize grant awards based on grant applicants' existing calculated local match requirements for BEST grants, with applicants with the lowest matching money requirements having the highest priority and applicants with the highest matching money requirements having the lowest priority. The board is also required to submit a report about the grants to the general assembly during the department of education's 2022 \"State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act\" presentation to legislative committees of reference. Notwithstanding the use of existing calculated local match requirements for grant prioritization purposes, the grants are exempted from existing matching money requirements for BEST grants. $10 million is appropriated from the assistance fund to the board for state fiscal year 2020-21, and any of the money not expended before July 1, 2021, is further appropriated to the board for state fiscal year 2021-22 for the same purpose.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-202"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-202 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colin Larson", "Dominick Moreno", "Emily Sirota", "Paul Lundeen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff2d8c2c-d549-4e37-ab64-e8ffcd6e8aea"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-202"
source_hash: "dbe5e0e68ce32c87611525c095e2ffc2d533a18ff5e7826486569304cdb52f9d"
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 21-202 (2021A) — Public School Air Quality Improvement Grants
The act transfers $10 million from the general fund to the public school capital construction assistance fund (assistance fund) for the purpose of providing "Building Excellent Schools Today Act" (BEST) grants to fund public school air quality improvement projects. The public school capital construction assistance board (board) is authorized to make the grants and is required to prioritize grant awards based on grant applicants' existing calculated local match requirements for BEST grants, with applicants with the lowest matching money requirements having the highest priority and applicants with the highest matching money requirements having the lowest priority. The board is also required to submit a report about the grants to the general assembly during the department of education's 2022 "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" presentation to legislative committees of reference. Notwithstanding the use of existing calculated local match requirements for grant prioritization purposes, the grants are exempted from existing matching money requirements for BEST grants. $10 million is appropriated from the assistance fund to the board for state fiscal year 2020-21, and any of the money not expended before July 1, 2021, is further appropriated to the board for state fiscal year 2021-22 for the same purpose.(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](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_sb202_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/30/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (03/31/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (05/21/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_202_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_202_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **50–13** (pass) · lower
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR — **35–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Colin Larson — primary (person)
- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Emily Sirota — primary (person)
- Paul Lundeen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2021-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-15T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff2d8c2c-d549-4e37-ab64-e8ffcd6e8aea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).