Results Matter

My experience crafting solutions to the toughest problems sets me apart.

As a state representative, I have prioritized progressive policy solutions to take climate action, make housing more affordable, make healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable, and help everyone who lost their house in the Marshall fire get back home. This has been in the form of thirty four different bills over the past two years. Since I came into my role in February 2023, I have served on the Health & Human Services Committee and the State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs committees.

As a life long public servant, I have led efforts to expand access to affordable, quality health care in Washington D.C. and for Colorado. I have served as the health advisor for two Colorado Governors and two senior U.S. Senators; I fought against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act; I expanded COVID-19/Coronavirus Testing; and I brought a public option to our community. While on Louisville City Council, I supported several of the same causes as I now fight for in the statehouse, including Marshall Fire recovery, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, common sense gun safety, protecting open space, COVID relief programs for local businesses, and improving the city’s sustainability and climate goals.

Wildfire Prevention & Recovery:

In 2024, I passed four bills that directly came out of the Marshall Fire community, as legislation that was needed most to help prevent exploitation and inequity with any future fires.

HB24-1011: Requires mortgage companies to immediately disburse at least one third of insurance proceeds to a borrower who has had their home damaged or destroyed, and ensures a borrower will receive the interest generated on their insurance proceeds.
HB24-1091: makes sure homeowners can use fire-resistant materials in building or rebuilding their home when they live in an HOA.
HB24-1259: Prevents price gouging on rent after a natural disaster.
HB24-1315: Requires a study on standards for the remediation of homes after they have been damaged in a fire by smoke, soot, ash, and other contaminants.

This was after previously passing four important bills in 2023 to directly improve the affordability and health standards of the process of getting back home.

HB23-1174: addresses the practices that led to the massive underinsurance of homes such as after the Marshall Fire
HB23-1240: a state use tax refund for home-rebuilding materials post-wildfire
HB23-1254: new health & safety standards for rentals in the aftermath of a natural disaster
HB23-1266: makes sure a person’s reverse mortgage loan isn’t foreclosed upon because they lost their home in a disaster

Taking Climate Action and Advancing Sustainability:

I strongly believe in promoting renewable energy, energizing our transportation and buildings sectors, and overall improving the sustainability of our society. I appreciate the strong leadership of the Colorado Energy Office, nonprofits like Conservation Colorado, and of my colleagues in our continual push to take climate action for the benefit of our pocket books, our health, and of our future safety and wellness in the face of climate change.

I’ve had the opportunity to pass four key pieces of environmental legislation thus far, supporting many bills brought forward by my colleagues that work to advance our sustainability goals.

SB24-212: Provides additional resources and assistance to local governments in facilitating the construction of renewable energy projects.
SB24-218: Requires the modernization of our electrical grid to allow for the further adoption of electric appliances and distributed energy sources.
HB23-1234: grants to local governments to implement new software to reduce the time and cost of residential solar permitting
SB23-266: limits the use of pesticides in our communities that are harmful to pollinators

Improving Public Health and Mental Health:

I strongly believe in taking actions to promote community wellness. For example, I worked closely with residents of Superior and surrounding areas as they cried out for change with the many flights over their homes from Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. While much of this matter is federally regulated, I took their perspective into the policy-making process and stakeholded ideas with the aviation industry to understand how we could create better outcomes for my community. I also took ideas from a national health conference back to Colorado to use federal funding to provide for those who need transitional housing. I will continue to work to improve public health.

HB24-1235: Helps protect communities from aviation noise and lead pollution while accelerating the transition to unleaded fuels.
HB24-1322: Provides federal Medicaid funding to serve more low income Coloradans who lack affordable housing and nutritious food.
HB24-1457: Creates a grant program for local governments to help pay for the abatement of dangerous materials in buildings, particularly asbestos.
SB24-001: Continues the youth mental health services, ‘iMatter’, program, providing up to six free therapy sessions to Colorado youth.
SB24-198: Helps implement the voter approved natural medicine initiative by better defining education and training requirements.

Transforming health care to be more accessible and affordable:

Similar to the public health space, I know and understand the health care industry from my background advising Congressmen and Governors. This meant I have a close relationship to various nonprofits that continue to promote affordability and accountability from our insurance companies, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry. I continue to work with these great partners to advance important concepts to protect working families from high health care costs.

HB24-1258: Makes sure consumers don’t pay their deductibles or out-of-pocket expenses twice when a health insurance company goes out of business.
HB24-1382: Requires health-care coverage for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, known as PANS/ PANDAS
SB24-068: Modifies current medical aid-in-dying laws to expand access to end-of-life options for individuals with a terminal illness.
HB23-1218: the Patients’ Right to Know Act: will increase hospital transparency if they don’t provide certain services (such as gender-affirming care)
HB23-1224: updates to the Colorado Option, the state’s version of a public option, which I formerly helped to create before becoming a legislator while working for the Colorado Division of Insurance
HB23-1303: protections for insurance company insolvencies, to make sure patients and their doctors aren’t on the hook when an insurance company can’t pay its bills
SB23-093: sets a ceiling for medical debt interest rates, means that Coloradans can seek the care they need without worrying about snowballing debt

Preventing Gun Violence:

I strongly believe in advancing commonsense measures to prevent gun violence. Firearms in our communities lead to too injuries and deaths each year to stand by and not take action. I’ve supported measures to increase training to receive a concealed carry permit, to require safer storage of firearms in vehicles, regulate firearm dealer licensing, requiring a waiting period to acquire a firearm, increase the minimum age to purchase a firearm, and expanding the list of individuals eligible to file an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO). I also had the pleasure of advancing a policy to further change the culture about where we ought to bring a firearm.

SB24-131: Prohibits carrying a firearm, openly or concealed, in certain sensitive spaces, including preschools, colleges, government buildings, and polling places.

Promoting Democracy:

Amid further threats at the federal level to our democratic principles, we are expanding and securing our democracy here at the state level. I strongly believe in voting access and integrity, while defeating measures that would limit this integrity in any way. The election standards here in Colorado are continually rated as some of the best in the country, and I support our Secretary of State’s office as they ensure fair elections.

SB24-072: expands access to voting for confined eligible electors at the county jail or detention center.
SCR24-002: modifies current Constitutional Election Deadlines to ensure more time between ballot certification and ballot transmission.

Protecting Workers and Furthering Education:

I stand by our working families as our advancing economy means that often certain workers are left behind. I will work with unions, hardworking people, and marginalized communities to ensure fair wages, smart educational opportunities for advancement, and equity for those who would be exploited with the threat of deportation, intimidation, and wage theft.

HB24-1321: Makes sure insurance companies have adequate financial reserves so consumers can be sure they will be able to pay claims
HB24-1472: Raises the limitation on noneconomic damages that can be recovered in medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death actions
SB24-149: Prohibits the state from using a state employee’s workers compensation claim to inhibit their current or future employment for the state, or threatening to do so
SB24-226: Expands access to the College Kickstarter Program, making it easier for more kids to receive the $100 initial investment provided to every child born or adopted in Colorado.

Government Efficiency and Effectiveness:

It’s important that government is streamlined so that public tax dollars are utilized in the most effective manner. I stand by our government agencies as they bring forward ideas that can better connect departments, foster better working relationships, and overall improve the timeliness of government operations.

HB24-1326: Improves the regulation of charitable gaming, including Bingo, to ensure consistency for important community organizations.
SB24-135: modifies statutory requirements for state departments’ and agencies’ reports, including the human services, IT, and higher education departments.
HB23-1278: expanding virtual options for marriage licenses procedures

I’m honored to work on behalf of my constituents across each of these issue areas. I look forward to bringing forward further legislation to advance our goals and values, and welcome any thoughts or ideas about these bills along the way.

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