Colorado House of Representatives
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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.
The Colorado House of Representatives convenes at the State Capitol in Denver.
Committees
The House have 11 current committees of reference:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Agriculture, Livestock, and Water Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Appropriations Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Business Affairs and Labor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Education<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Energy and Environment Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Finance Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Health and Insurance Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Judiciary Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Public and Behavioral Health and Human Services Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- House Transportation and Local Government Committee Committee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Current composition
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| 43 | 22 | |
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| 68th General Assembly | 32 | Template:Party shading/Republican| 33 | 65 | 0 |
| 69th General Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 37 | 28 | 65 | 0 |
| 70th General Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 34 | 31 | 65 | 0 |
| Begin 71st Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 37 | 28 | 65 | 0 |
| March 2, 2018Template:Efn | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 36 | 29 | ||
| 72nd General Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 41 | 24 | 65 | 0 |
| 73rd General Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 41 | 24 | 65 | 0 |
| 74th General Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 46 | 19 | 65 | 0 |
| Begin 75th Assembly | Template:Party shading/Democratic| 43 | 22 | 65 | 0 |
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Leaders
Members
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- *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.<ref name="women representatives" >Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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'<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Their prediction proved wrong, as demonstrated by the list of subsequent women members of the House.<ref name="women representatives"/>
See also
- Outline of Colorado
- Index of Colorado-related articles
- State of Colorado
- United States of America
Notes
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