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type: "Bill"
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title: "Wildfire Risk Mitigation"
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description: "The act allows the forest service to issue forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grants for projects on federal lands, so long as the project maintains continuity across a landscape including federal lands and the area of federal lands does not exceed the combined area of the nonfederal lands involved in the project.The act increases the amount that the forest service may use for the direct and indirect costs in administering the forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grant program from 3% to 7% of any amounts appropriated in any fiscal year.The act allows for the technical advisory panel that evaluates the proposals for forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grants to scale up and down in size.The act expands the allowable uses of the forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grant program by allowing the grant program to fund capacity-building efforts to provide local governments, community groups, and collaborative forestry groups with the resources and staffing necessary to plan and implement forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation projects, including community and partner outreach and engagement, identifying priority project areas, prescription planning, and acquiring community equipment for use by landowners.The act allows for the forest service to hire nontemporary additional field capacity to support the implementation and monitoring of fuels mitigation grant awards and wildfire risk mitigation program grant awards and to hire full-time, nontemporary staff for developing, revising, and implementing community wildfire protection plans and collaborative landscape level prioritization plans; developing and implementing risk mitigation and watershed restoration plans; strengthening the responsible use of prescribed fire; and supporting economically beneficial uses of woody biomass.The act also creates 2 funds. First, the act creates the wildfire mitigation capacity development fund. Money from the wildfire mitigation capacity development fund is continuously appropriated to the department of natural resources to support a number of wildfire related areas administered by the department. Second, the act creates the hazard mitigation fund to assist local jurisdictions in obtaining the matching funds required for certain federal hazard mitigation grants.Finally, the act requires the following immediate transfers:$5 million from the general fund to the healthy forests and vibrant communities fund;"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
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legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
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session: "2021A"
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identifier: "SB 21-258"
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citation: "Colorado SB 21-258 (2021A)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bob Rankin", "Joann Ginal", "Marc Snyder", "Meg Froelich"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2021-06-15T06:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34fd3c60-1ffc-4127-8040-b17b8c628e35"
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source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-258"
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source_hash: "baa42ec69260649961edd001ab8c22e22f2ed1ffc0b9da0b2f3a3a9797066db2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
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---
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# Colorado SB 21-258 (2021A) — Wildfire Risk Mitigation
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The act allows the forest service to issue forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grants for projects on federal lands, so long as the project maintains continuity across a landscape including federal lands and the area of federal lands does not exceed the combined area of the nonfederal lands involved in the project.The act increases the amount that the forest service may use for the direct and indirect costs in administering the forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grant program from 3% to 7% of any amounts appropriated in any fiscal year.The act allows for the technical advisory panel that evaluates the proposals for forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grants to scale up and down in size.The act expands the allowable uses of the forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grant program by allowing the grant program to fund capacity-building efforts to provide local governments, community groups, and collaborative forestry groups with the resources and staffing necessary to plan and implement forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation projects, including community and partner outreach and engagement, identifying priority project areas, prescription planning, and acquiring community equipment for use by landowners.The act allows for the forest service to hire nontemporary additional field capacity to support the implementation and monitoring of fuels mitigation grant awards and wildfire risk mitigation program grant awards and to hire full-time, nontemporary staff for developing, revising, and implementing community wildfire protection plans and collaborative landscape level prioritization plans; developing and implementing risk mitigation and watershed restoration plans; strengthening the responsible use of prescribed fire; and supporting economically beneficial uses of woody biomass.The act also creates 2 funds. First, the act creates the wildfire mitigation capacity development fund. Money from the wildfire mitigation capacity development fund is continuously appropriated to the department of natural resources to support a number of wildfire related areas administered by the department. Second, the act creates the hazard mitigation fund to assist local jurisdictions in obtaining the matching funds required for certain federal hazard mitigation grants.Finally, the act requires the following immediate transfers:$5 million from the general fund to the healthy forests and vibrant communities fund;
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_sb258_h_app_001.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed (05/24/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_eng.pdf)
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3. **Final Act (06/10/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_enr.pdf)
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4. **Introduced (04/29/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_01.pdf)
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5. **Reengrossed (05/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_ren.pdf)
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6. **Rerevised (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_rer.pdf)
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7. **Revised (06/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_258_rev.pdf)
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8. **Signed Act (06/15/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_258_signed.pdf)
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## Votes
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- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- BILL — **59–4** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bob Rankin — primary (person)
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- Joann Ginal — primary (person)
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- Marc Snyder — primary (person)
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- Meg Froelich — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-15T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
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- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
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- **2021-06-10T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
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- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
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- **2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment `introduction`
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- **2021-05-25T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
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- **2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
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- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-29T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government `introduction`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34fd3c60-1ffc-4127-8040-b17b8c628e35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).
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