republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/sb-21-274.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sustainable Model To Serve Facility Students"
description: "The act creates a work group that is tasked with developing a sustainable model that is not embedded in the child welfare system to better serve students. The act outlines membership in the work group, duties of the work group, and reporting requirements for the work group and commissioner of education.The act requires, in state fiscal year 2021-22 only, and within available appropriations, that the department of education distribute supplemental payments to facility schools approved by the department as of October 1, 2021. The supplemental payments must be above and beyond the current daily per pupil revenue rate as established for the 2021-22 state fiscal year.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $6,200,000 to the department of education from the general fund for the facility school work group and supplemental payments to facility schools.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2021A"
identifier: "SB 21-274"
citation: "Colorado SB 21-274 (2021A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominick Moreno", "Leslie Herod"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-05-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-25T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/419bd07b-4b1e-490c-8571-ed15ad97a410"
source_url: "http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-274"
source_hash: "7ef70fbeb30d27f6d1bf87f5c5146acfd45605b96fa871b8158fd72d187b8713"
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 21-274 (2021A) — Sustainable Model To Serve Facility Students

The act creates a work group that is tasked with developing a sustainable model that is not embedded in the child welfare system to better serve students. The act outlines membership in the work group, duties of the work group, and reporting requirements for the work group and commissioner of education.The act requires, in state fiscal year 2021-22 only, and within available appropriations, that the department of education distribute supplemental payments to facility schools approved by the department as of October 1, 2021. The supplemental payments must be above and beyond the current daily per pupil revenue rate as established for the 2021-22 state fiscal year.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $6,200,000 to the department of education from the general fund for the facility school work group and supplemental payments to facility schools.(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_sb274_h_app_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (05/26/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (06/16/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (05/18/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_01.pdf)
5. **Reengrossed (05/27/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_ren.pdf)
6. **Rerevised (06/03/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_rer.pdf)
7. **Revised (06/02/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021A/bills/2021a_274_rev.pdf)
8. **Signed Act (06/25/2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_274_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **40–24** (pass) · lower
- BILL — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dominick Moreno — primary (person)
- Leslie Herod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-25T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations `introduction`
- **2021-05-27T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-24T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18T06:00:00+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/419bd07b-4b1e-490c-8571-ed15ad97a410`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).