Colorado House of Representatives

Last updated

Colorado House of Representatives
74th Colorado General Assembly
Seal of Colorado.svg
Type
Type
Term limits
4 terms (8 years)
History
New session started
January 9, 2023
Leadership
Julie McCluskie (D)
since January 9, 2023
Speaker pro tempore
Chris Kennedy (D)
since January 9, 2023
Majority Leader
Monica Duran (D)
since January 9, 2023
Minority Leader
Rose Pugliese (R)
since January 24, 2024
Structure
Seats65
Colorado House of Reps 2022.svg
Political groups
Majority
  •    Democratic (46)

Minority

Length of term
2 years
AuthorityArticle V, Colorado Constitution
Salary$43,977/year + per diem [1]
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
November 8, 2022
Next election
November 5, 2024
RedistrictingColorado Independent Legislative Redistricting Commission
Meeting place
ColoradoStateCapitolHouseOfRepresentatives gobeirne.jpg
House of Representatives Chamber
Colorado State Capitol, Denver
United States of America
Website
Colorado General Assembly
Rules
Colorado Legislative Rules

The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each district having roughly 80 thousand people. Representatives are elected to two-year terms, and are limited to four consecutive terms in office, but can run again after a four-year respite.

Contents

The Colorado House of Representatives convenes at the State Capitol in Denver.

Committees

The House have 11 current committees of reference: [2]

Current composition

4619
DemocraticRepublican
AffiliationParty
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
Total
Democratic Republican Vacant
68th General Assembly3233650
69th General Assembly3728650
70th General Assembly3431650
Begin 71st Assembly3728650
End 71st Assembly3629650
72nd General Assembly4124650
Begin 73rd Assembly4124650
October 7, 2022 [14] 23641
October 30, 2022 [15] 22632
Begin 74th Assembly [16] 4519641
January 28, 2023 [17] 46650
August 4, 2023 [18] 45641
August 26, 2023 [19] 46650
September 19, 2023 [20] 45641
October 2, 2023 [21] 46650
December 11, 2023 [22] 45641
December 31, 2023 [23] 44632
January 3, 2024 [24] 45641
January 18, 2024 [25] 46650
Latest voting share

Leaders

PositionNamePartyResidenceDistrict
Speaker of the House Julie McCluskie Democratic Dillon 13
Speaker Pro Tempore Chris deGruy Kennedy Democratic Lakewood 30
Majority Leader Monica Duran Democratic Wheat Ridge 23
Assistant Majority Leader Jennifer Bacon Democratic Denver 7
Majority Caucus Co-chair Mandy Lindsay Democratic Aurora 42
Co-Majority Whip Andrew Boesenecker Democratic Berthoud 53
Co-Majority Whip Iman Jodeh Democratic Aurora 41
Minority Leader Rose Pugliese Republican Colorado Springs 14
Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter Republican Trinidad 47
Minority Whip Richard Holtorf Republican Akron 63

Members

[26]

DistrictRepresentativePartyResidenceFirst elected
1 Javier Mabrey Democratic Denver 2022
2 Steven Woodrow Democratic Denver 2020*
3 Meg Froelich Democratic Greenwood Village 2019*
4 Tim Hernández Democratic Denver 2023*
5 Alex Valdez Democratic Denver 2018
6 Elisabeth Epps Democratic Denver 2022
7 Jennifer Bacon Democratic Denver 2020
8 Leslie Herod Democratic Denver 2016
9 Emily Sirota Democratic Denver 2018
10 Junie Joseph Democratic Boulder 2022
11 Karen McCormick Democratic Hygiene 2020
12 Kyle Brown Democratic Louisville 2023*
13 Julie McCluskie Democratic Boulder 2018
14 Rose Pugliese Republican Colorado Springs 2022
15 Scott Bottoms Republican Colorado Springs 2022
16 Stephanie Vigil Democratic Colorado Springs 2022
17 Regina English Democratic Colorado Springs 2022
18 Marc Snyder Democratic Colorado Springs 2018
19 Jennifer Parenti Democratic Longmont 2022
20 Don Wilson Republican Monument 2022*
21 Mary Bradfield Republican Colorado Springs 2020
22 Ken DeGraaf Republican Colorado Springs 2022
23 Monica Duran Democratic Wheat Ridge 2018
24 Lindsey Daugherty Democratic Arvada 2020
25 Tammy Story Democratic Evergreen 2018
26 Meghan Lukens Democratic Eagle 2022
27 Brianna Titone Democratic Golden 2018
28 Sheila Lieder Democratic Littleton 2022
29 Shannon Bird Democratic Northglenn 2018
30 Chris deGruy Kennedy Democratic Lakewood 2016
31 Julia Marvin Democratic Thornton 2024*
32 Manny Rutinel Democratic Commerce City 2023*
33 William Lindstedt Democratic Broomfield 2022
34 Jenny Willford Democratic Northglenn 2022
35 Lorena Garcia Democratic Westminster 2023*
36 Mike Weissman Democratic Aurora 2016
37 Chad Clifford Democratic Centennial 2024*
38 David Ortiz Democratic Littleton 2020
39 Brandi Bradley Republican Larkspur 2022
40 Naquetta Ricks Democratic Aurora 2020
41 Iman Jodeh Democratic Aurora 2020
42 Mandy Lindsay Democratic Aurora 2022*
43 Bob Marshall Democratic Highlands Ranch 2022
44 Anthony Hartsook Republican Parker 2022
45 Lisa Frizell Republican Castle Rock 2022
46 Tisha Mauro Democratic Pueblo 2022
47 Ty Winter Republican Trinidad 2022
48 Gabe Evans Republican Hudson 2022
49 Judy Amabile Democratic Estes Park 2020
50 Mary Young Democratic Greeley 2019*
51 Ron Weinberg Republican Loveland 2023*
52 Cathy Kipp Democratic Fort Collins 2019*
53 Andrew Boesenecker Democratic Fort Collins 2021*
54 Matt Soper Republican Delta 2018
55 Rick Taggart Republican Grand Junction 2022
56 Rod Bockenfeld Republican Henderson 2018
57 Elizabeth Velasco Democratic Glenwood Springs 2022
58 Marc Catlin Republican Montrose 2017*
59 Barbara McLachlan Democratic Durango 2016
60 Stephanie Luck Republican Penrose 2020
61 Eliza Hamrick Democratic Centennial 2022
62 Matthew Martinez Democratic Alamosa 2022
63 Richard Holtorf Republican Fort Morgan 2019*
64 Ryan Armagost Republican Berthoud 2022
65 Mike Lynch Republican Wellington 2020
*Representative was originally appointed

Past composition of the House of Representatives

Women who served in the House of Representatives

The first women who served in the Colorado House of Representatives were Clara Cressingham, Carrie Holly and Frances Klock. All three were elected to serve in 1895-1896. [27] Carrie Holly introduced and passed a Bill that raised the age of consent for girls from 16 to 18 and another that gave mothers the same rights to their children as fathers. [28]

A total of 10 women served in the period up to 1904, the last of them being Alice Ruble, after which the party leaders declared that 'no woman will ever again be elected to the (Colorado) legislature' [29]

Their prediction proved wrong, as demonstrated by the list of subsequent women members of the House. [27]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colorado General Assembly</span> Legislative branch of the state government of Colorado

The Colorado General Assembly is the state legislature of the State of Colorado. It is a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives that was created by the 1876 state constitution. Its statutes are codified in the Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.). The session laws are published in the Session Laws of Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colorado Senate</span> Upper house of Colorado General Assembly

The Colorado State Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of about 123,000 as of the 2000 census. Senators are elected to four-year terms, and are limited to two consecutive terms in office. Senators who are term-limited become eligible to run again after a one-term respite.

Mark Steven Ferrandino is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado and former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. Appointed to the legislature in 2007, Ferrandino represented House District 2, encompassing south central Denver from 2012 to 2014. He is the first openly gay male legislator in Colorado history. He did not seek re-election in 2014, and was the chief financial officer of Denver Public Schools. On November 19, 2020, Colorado Governor Jared Polis appointed Ferrandino to serve as executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue. He served in the position until July 2023, when the governor named him director of the Office of State Planning and Budgeting.

Edward Casso is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2006, Casso represented House District 32, which encompasses suburbs of Denver, Colorado in northwestern Adams County, from 2006 to 2012.

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Colorado:

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Connecticut:

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New Jersey:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Kagan</span> American politician

Daniel Kagan is an American politician who served in the Colorado Senate from the 26th district from 2017 to 2019, and in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 3rd district from 2009 to 2017, as a member of the Democratic Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nancy Dahlstrom</span> American politician (born 1957)

Nancy Dahlstrom is an American politician who has served as the 15th lieutenant governor of Alaska since December 2022. She previously served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 18th and 13th districts. She was appointed to the House at the beginning of the legislative session in 2003 when the representative-elect, Lisa Murkowski, was appointed to the United States Senate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominick Moreno</span> American politician from Colorado

Dominick Moreno is an American politician who served as a state legislator in Colorado. A Democrat, Moreno represented the 21st district of the Colorado Senate from January 11, 2017 until he resigned on September 1, 2023 to serve as deputy chief of staff to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston. Before his election to the senate, he represented the 32nd district in the Colorado House of Representatives from 2012 to 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Andrzejczak</span> American politician

Robert John "Bob" Andrzejczak is an American Democratic Party politician who represented the 1st Legislative District in the New Jersey State Senate from January 15, 2019, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Jeff Van Drew, until December 5, 2019. Andrzejczak previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from March 21, 2013, to January 14, 2019, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Matthew W. Milam.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Fenberg</span> American politician

Stephen Fenberg is an American politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 18th district, since 2017, as a member of the Democratic Party. He serves as President of the Senate and served as Majority Leader from 2019 to 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Hansen (politician)</span> American politician

Christopher Joshi Hansen is an American politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 31st as a member of the Democratic Party since 2020. Prior to his service in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 6th district from 2017 to 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dafna Michaelson Jenet</span> American politician

Dafna Michaelson Jenet is a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate representing Senate District 21. She previously served in the Colorado House of Representatives representing House District 32 and, prior to redistricting, District 30, which covered a portion of Adams County including parts of Commerce City, Aurora, Brighton, Henderson, Bennett, Keensburg, Strasburg, and Thornton. She was elected to that seat in 2016, unseating Republican incumbent JoAnn Windholz.

Yehiel Mark Kalish was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 16th district. The 16th district, located in the Chicago area, consists of the West Ridge neighborhood in the City of Chicago and parts of the nearby suburbs of Morton Grove, Niles, Lincolnwood and Skokie. He was appointed to succeed Lou Lang who had resigned earlier in January. Kalish is an ordained Orthodox rabbi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hebrew Theological College and a Master of Public Administration from Walden University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colorado's 21st Senate district</span> American legislative district

Colorado's 21st Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Colorado Senate. It is represented by represented by Democrat Dafna Michaelson Jenet who was selected by a vacancy committee in August 2023 to succeed Democrat Dominick Moreno.

Mary Young is an American politician, psychologist, and special education teacher from the state of Colorado. A Democrat, Young has represented the 50th district of the Colorado House of Representatives, based in Greeley, since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Missouri House of Representatives election</span>

The 2022 Missouri House of Representatives election took place on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, with the primary election held on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Missouri voters selected state representatives in all 163 seats of the House of Representatives to serve two-year terms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manny Rutinel</span> American politician

Tonty "Manny" Rutinel is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives for the 32nd district. He assumed office in October 2023.

Julia Marvin is an American politician serving as member of the Colorado House of Representatives for the 31st district since January 2024.

References

  1. "Salaries for Legislators, Statewide Elected Officials, and County Officers". Colorado General Assembly. Colorado General Assembly. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  2. "Committees". Colorado General Assembly, First Regular Session, 73rd General Assembly. State of Colorado. 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  3. "Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources | Colorado General Assembly".
  4. "Appropriations | Colorado General Assembly".
  5. "Business Affairs & Labor | Colorado General Assembly".
  6. "Education | Colorado General Assembly".
  7. "Energy & Environment | Colorado General Assembly".
  8. "Finance | Colorado General Assembly".
  9. "Health & Insurance | Colorado General Assembly".
  10. "Judiciary | Colorado General Assembly".
  11. "Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services | Colorado General Assembly".
  12. "State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs | Colorado General Assembly".
  13. "Transportation, Housing & Local Government | Colorado General Assembly".
  14. Republican and Minority Whip Tim Geitner (District 19) resigned.
  15. Republican and Minority Leader Hugh McKean (District 51) died.
  16. Democrat Tracey Bernett (District 12) resigned on January 9, 2023.
  17. Democrat Kyle Brown was selected by a vacancy committee to replace Bernett.
  18. Democrat Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez (District 4) resigned after her election to the Denver City Council.
  19. Democrat Tim Hernández was selected by a vacancy committee to replace Gonzales-Gutierrez.
  20. Democrat Dafna Michaelson Jenet (District 32) was sworn into the Colorado Senate.
  21. Democrat Manny Rutinel was selected by a vacancy committee to replace Michaelson Jenet.
  22. Democrat Ruby Dickson (District 37) resigned.
  23. Democrat Said Sharbini (District 31) resigned.
  24. Democrat Chad Clifford was selected by a vacancy committee to replace Dickson.
  25. Democrat Julia Marvin was selected by a vacancy committee to replace Sharbini.
  26. "Legislators". Colorado General Assembly. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  27. 1 2 "<Women who served in the Colorado House of Representatives>" . Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  28. "<Carrie Holly>" . Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  29. "Leaders of all parties in Colorado announce equal suffrage policy a failure". Pawnee Courier Dispatch. December 6, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved February 2, 2024. .

39°44′21″N104°59′05″W / 39.7392°N 104.9848°W / 39.7392; -104.9848