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type: "Bill"
title: "Special District Transparency"
description: "The act makes various changes to statutory provisions to promote transparency for special districts. Specifically:Under current law, the designated election official is required to provide notice by publication of a call for nominations for a regular local government election. Except for metropolitan districts organized after January 1, 2000, the act requires that notice be made exclusively by publication and by any one of 4 additional means."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-262"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-262 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Hugh McKean", "Rachel Zenzinger", "Shannon Bird"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8f8724f-9de2-4b76-a418-e395b8f2be42"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-262"
source_hash: "a4aef39a84c9ffcf1063bc984397c0b29162ae364ec811cd5471919cfdcb3d8f"
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 21-262 (2021A) — Special District Transparency
The act makes various changes to statutory provisions to promote transparency for special districts. Specifically:Under current law, the designated election official is required to provide notice by publication of a call for nominations for a regular local government election. Except for metropolitan districts organized after January 1, 2000, the act requires that notice be made exclusively by publication and by any one of 4 additional means.
## 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_sb262_h_tlg_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/19/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/22/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (05/05/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (06/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262tlg_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (05/20/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (06/07/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (06/04/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_262_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/28/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_262_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- CONCUR — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- REPASS — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **61–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Hugh McKean — primary (person)
- Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)
- Shannon Bird — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-28T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
- **2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Transportation & Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Local Government `introduction`
- **2021-05-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor `reading-2`
- **2021-05-17T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 05/19/2021 - No Amendments
- **2021-05-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8f8724f-9de2-4b76-a418-e395b8f2be42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).