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

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	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;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	SB 21-236	Colorado SB 21-236 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Jerry Sonnenberg Kerry Tipper Tammy Story Tonya Van Beber	11	16	4	2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00	2021-06-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/733ddf5e-099b-477e-90a1-e97f9915771b	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-236	6e1a5d97a804426123ead40e2722eaab18713308c2c67ef43caca86ba1676522	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Engrossed (05/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/10/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (05/07/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA3 (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Reengrossed (05/13/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Rerevised (06/01/2021) (committee substitute) — source
10. Revised (05/28/2021) (committee substitute) — source
11. Signed Act (06/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/733ddf5e-099b-477e-90a1-e97f9915771b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).