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 80,000 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.
The Colorado House of Representatives convenes at the State Capitol in Denver.
Committees
The House has 11 current committees of reference:
- House Agriculture, Livestock, and Water Committee
- House Appropriations Committee
- House Business Affairs and Labor
- House Education
- House Energy and Environment Committee
- House Finance Committee
- House Health and Insurance Committee
- House Judiciary Committee
- House Public and Behavioral Health and Human Services Committee
- House State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee
- House Transportation and Local Government Committee Committee
Current composition
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!rowspan=3|Total
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 68th General Assembly
| 32
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 69th General Assembly
|| 37
| 28
! 65
| 0
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 70th General Assembly
|| 34
| 31
! 65
| 0
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| Begin 71st Assembly
|| 37
|28
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| March 2, 2018
|| 36
|29
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 72nd General Assembly
|| 41
|24
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|0
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 73rd General Assembly
|| 41
|24
!65
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| 74th General Assembly
|| 46
|19
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!nowrap style="font-size:80%"| Begin 75th Assembly
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|22
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Leaders
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! Position !! Name !! Party !! Residence !! District
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| Speaker of the House ||Julie McCluskie || |Democratic || Dillon || 13
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| Speaker Pro Tempore || Andrew Boesenecker || | Democratic || Fort Collins || 53
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| Majority Leader || Monica Duran || | Democratic || Wheat Ridge || 23
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| Assistant Majority Leader || Jennifer Bacon || | Democratic || Denver || 7
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| Majority Caucus Co-chair || Mandy Lindsay || | Democratic || Aurora || 42
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| Majority Caucus Co-Chair || Junie Joseph || | Democratic || Boulder || 10
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| Majority Co-Whip || Matthew Martinez || | Democratic || Alamosa || 62
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| Majority Co-Whip || Elizabeth Velasco || | Democratic || Glenwood Springs || 57
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| Minority Leader || Jarvis Caldwell || | Republican || Colorado Springs || 20
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| Assistant Minority Leader || Ty Winter || | Republican || Trinidad || 47
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| Minority Caucus Chair || Anthony Hartsook || | Republican || Parker || 44
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| Minority Whip || Carlos Barron|| | Republican || Fort Lupton|| 48
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Members
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!District
!Name
!Party
!Residence
!Start
!Term Limited
|-
|1
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2022
|No
|-
|2
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2020
|No
|-
|3
|
| |Democratic
|Greenwood Village
|2019
|No
|-
|4
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2024
|No
|-
|5
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2018
|Yes
|-
|6
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2024
|No
|-
|7
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2020
|No
|-
|8
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2024
|No
|-
|9
|
| |Democratic
|Denver
|2018
|Yes
|-
|10
|
| |Democratic
|Boulder
|2022
|No
|-
|11
|
| |Democratic
|Hygiene
|2020
|No
|-
|12
|
| |Democratic
|Louisville
|2023
|No
|-
|13
|
| |Democratic
|Boulder
|2018
|Yes
|-
|14
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2025
|No
|-
|15
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2022
|No
|-
|16
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2024
|No
|-
|17
|
| |Democratic
|Colorado Springs
|2022
|No
|-
|18
|
| |Democratic
|Colorado Springs
|2024
|No
|-
|19
|
| |Republican
|Frederick
|2024
|No
|-
|20
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2024
|No
|-
|21
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2020
|No
|-
|22
|
| |Republican
|Colorado Springs
|2022
|No
|-
|23
|
| |Democratic
|Wheat Ridge
|2018
|Yes
|-
|24
|
| |Democratic
|Arvada
|2024
|No
|-
|25
|
| |Democratic
|Evergreen
|2018
|Yes
|-
|26
|
| |Democratic
|Steamboat Springs
|2022
|No
|-
|27
|
| |Democratic
|Golden
|2018
|Yes
|-
|28
|
| |Democratic
|Littleton
|2022
|No
|-
|29
|
| |Democratic
|Westminster
|2026
|No
|-
|30
|
| |Democratic
|Lakewood
|2024
|No
|-
|31
|
| |Democratic
|Thornton
|2024
|No
|-
|32
|
| |Democratic
|Commerce City
|2023
|No
|-
|33
|
| |Democratic
|Broomfield
|2026
|No
|-
|34
|
| |Democratic
|Northglenn
|2022
|No
|-
|35
|
| |Democratic
|Westminster
|2023
|No
|-
|36
|
| |Democratic
|Aurora
|2024
|No
|-
|37
|
| |Democratic
|Centennial
|2024
|No
|-
|38
|
| |Democratic
|Littleton
|2024
|No
|-
|39
|
| |Republican
|Larkspur
|2022
|No
|-
|40
|
| |Democratic
|Aurora
|2020
|No
|-
|41
|
| |Democratic
|Aurora
|2025
|No
|-
|42
|
| |Democratic
|Aurora
|2022
|No
|-
|43
|
| |Democratic
|Highlands Ranch
|2022
|No
|-
|44
|
| |Republican
|Parker
|2022
|No
|-
|45
|
| |Republican
|Castle Rock
|2024
|No
|-
|46
|
| |Democratic
|Pueblo
|2022
|No
|-
|47
|
| |Republican
|Trinidad
|2022
|No
|-
|48
|
| |Republican
|Fort Lupton
|2024
|No
|-
|49
|
| |Democratic
|Boulder
|2024
|No
|-
|50
|
| |Republican
|Greeley
|2024
|No
|-
|51
|
| |Republican
|Loveland
|2023
|No
|-
|52
|
| |Democratic
|Windsor
|2024
|No
|-
|53
|
| |Democratic
|Fort Collins
|2021
|No
|-
|54
|
| |Republican
|Delta
|2018
|Yes
|-
|55
|
| |Republican
|Grand Junction
|2022
|No
|-
|56
|
| |Republican
|Elbert County
|2024
|No
|-
|57
|
| |Democratic
|Glenwood Springs
|2022
|No
|-
|58
|
| |Republican
|Montezuma County
|2024
|No
|-
|59
|
| |Democratic
|Durango
|2024
|No
|-
|60
|
| |Republican
|Penrose
|2020
|No
|-
|61
|
| |Democratic
|Centennial
|2022
|No
|-
|62
|
| |Democratic
|Alamosa
|2022
|No
|-
|63
|
| |Republican
|Fort Morgan
|2024
|No
|-
|64
|
| |Republican
|Berthoud
|2025
|No
|-
|65
|
| |Republican
|Eaton
|2024
|No
|}
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.
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.
A total of 10 women served in the period up to 1904, the last of them being Alice Ruble. In 1906, party leaders declared that "no woman will ever again be elected to the [Colorado] legislature". Their prediction proved wrong, as demonstrated by the list of subsequent women members of the House - the first of whom was Alma Lafferty, who first served in 1908.
See also
- Outline of Colorado
- Index of Colorado-related articles
- State of Colorado
- Government of Colorado
- List of governors of Colorado
- List of lieutenant governors of Colorado
- Colorado General Assembly
- Colorado Senate
- List of speakers of the Colorado House of Representatives
- List of Colorado state legislatures
- Courts of Colorado
- Colorado Supreme Court
- Federal government
- United States Congress
- Colorado's congressional delegations
- List of United States senators from Colorado
- List of United States representatives from Colorado
- Colorado's congressional districts