republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-236.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Capacity Early Childhood Care & Education"
description: "The act creates 4 new grant programs to increase capacity for early childhood care and education, improve recruitment and retention rates for early childhood educators (educators), and improve salaries for educators. The act makes an appropriation.Specifically, the act creates the following programs:The employer-based child care facility grant program;"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-236"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-236 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Sonnenberg", "Kerry Tipper", "Tammy Story", "Tonya Van Beber"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/733ddf5e-099b-477e-90a1-e97f9915771b"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-236"
source_hash: "6e1a5d97a804426123ead40e2722eaab18713308c2c67ef43caca86ba1676522"
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 21-236 (2021A) — Increase Capacity Early Childhood Care & Education

The act creates 4 new grant programs to increase capacity for early childhood care and education, improve recruitment and retention rates for early childhood educators (educators), and improve salaries for educators. The act makes an appropriation.Specifically, the act creates the following programs:The employer-based child care facility grant program;

## 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_sb236_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/12/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/06/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/23/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236sedu_01.pdf)
6. **PA2 (05/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236seduapp.pdf)
7. **PA3 (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236app_01.pdf)
8. **Reengrossed (05/13/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_ren.pdf)
9. **Rerevised (06/01/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_rer.pdf)
10. **Revised (05/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_236_rev.pdf)
11. **Signed Act (06/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_236_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- CONCUR — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **51–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerry Sonnenberg — primary (person)
- Kerry Tipper — primary (person)
- Tammy Story — primary (person)
- Tonya Van Beber — 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 Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-14T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee `reading-2`
- **2021-05-11T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
- **2021-05-07T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T06:00:00+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/733ddf5e-099b-477e-90a1-e97f9915771b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).