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Gretchen Rydin

State House District 38

Running in 2026: State House District 38 (June 30) · State House District 38 (November 3)

In the Legislature

House District 38 D · 2,064 floor votes this session, 2% not voting

Committees they vote in: Health & Human Services · Business Affairs & Labor · State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

Bills they lead: 18 (17 became law) — HB25-1018, HB25-1070, HB25-1124, HB25-1129, HB26-1024, HB26-1043, HB26-1063, HB26-1064, HB26-1116, HB26-1195, HB26-1234, HB26-1298 …

Bills their donors lobbied on

Bills they voted on (latest floor vote) on which a lobbyist's client that gave to their campaign, or gave them a gift, took a position: the largest first, with the position the lobbyist reported.

Bill	Their vote	Clients that lobbied on it, their position, and what they gave
HB25-1273 Residential Building Stair Modernization	Aye 2025-05-07	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign); Conservation Colorado monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	Aye 2025-05-06	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign); Conservation Colorado supporting ($450 campaign)
SB25-162 Railroad Safety Requirements	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign); Conservation Colorado supporting ($450 campaign)
HB26-1005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	Aye 2026-03-09	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign); Conservation Colorado supporting ($450 campaign)
HB25-1078 Forestry & Firefighter Workforce & Education	Aye 2025-04-28	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-002 Regional Building Codes for Factory-Built Structures	Aye 2025-04-21	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-310 Proposition 130 Implementation	Aye 2025-05-05	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters amending ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1282 Payment Card Network Practices & Fees	Aye 2025-03-19	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters opposing ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1088 Costs for Ground Ambulance Services	Aye 2025-04-17	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-007 Increase Prescribed Burns	Aye 2025-05-07	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1300 Workers' Compensation Benefits Proof of Entitlement	Aye 2025-05-07	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1195 First Responder Voter Registration Record Confidentiality	Aye 2025-05-01	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-015 Wildfire Information & Resource Center Website	Aye 2025-03-26	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1009 Vegetative Fuel Mitigation	Aye 2025-03-17	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1069 Availability of Emergency Medical Services	Aye 2026-05-07	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-039 Fire and Police Pension Association Disability and Survivor Benefits	Aye 2026-03-23	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-047 Colorado Firefighter Safety Act Petition Elections	Aye 2026-04-02	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-053 Colorado Housing and Finance Authority Mortgage POST Officers First Responders	Aye 2026-04-02	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1397 Multiple Employer Health Trust Funding	Aye 2026-04-11	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters amending ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-134 Payment Card Networks' Fees	Aye 2026-05-06	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1433 Funding to Sustain Fire-Related Services	Aye 2026-05-09	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-184 Firefighter Cancer Benefits & Workers' Compensation	Aye 2026-05-12	Colorado Professional Fire Fighters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-001 Colorado Voting Rights Act	Aye 2025-04-28	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($1,433 campaign); Conservation Colorado supporting ($450 campaign)
HB25-1155 Modify Candidate Authority Watchers General Election	Aye 2025-02-13	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($1,433 campaign)
HB25-1315 Vacancies in the General Assembly	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($1,433 campaign)
HB26-1038 County Commissioner Redistricting	Aye 2026-04-21	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($1,433 campaign)
HB26-1023 Political Party Liability for Accessibility Requirements	Aye 2026-02-26	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($1,433 campaign)
HB26-1113 Modifications to Elections	Aye 2026-05-07	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($1,433 campaign)
HB26-1203 Modification of County Commissioner Elections	Aye 2026-03-16	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($1,433 campaign)
SB25-152 Health-Care Practitioner Identification Requirements	Aye 2025-04-15	Colorado Optometric Association monitoring ($600 campaign)

Colorado property

$303,600 at the county assessors' values, 1 parcel we matched to the property on their disclosures.

Kind	County	Assessor's value
home	Arapahoe	$303,600

The county assessor's actual value (the 2025 reappraisal, an estimate of market value in mid-2024), from the state's parcel records. We match parcels by the owner's name where their office or race is, or by the legal description or address on their disclosure; we don't show addresses, parcel numbers or co-owners. Property held in a name we can't connect to them isn't here.

Personal Financial Disclosures

Income listed: up to $133,998; debts: up to $274,998 on their latest disclosure with entries: the top of each range they selected, added up (the form asks for ranges, not amounts; a range with no top counts at its figure).

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Candidate State House of Representatives	2025-12-17	3 income sources, 1 colorado property, 2 state-regulated businesses, 2 debts
2025 Annual State House of Representatives	2025-12-15	3 income sources, 2 sources of compensation, 2 colorado property, 2 state-regulated businesses, 2 debts
2025 Candidate State House of Representatives	2025-07-14	3 income sources, 1 colorado property, 2 state-regulated businesses, 1 debts
2025 State Representative	2025-01-10	4 income sources, 1 colorado property, 2 state-regulated businesses, 2 debts

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Their income from AllHealth Network, a lobbying client with positions on 3 bills

Their disclosure lists AllHealth Network as a source of income. AllHealth Network is a client of a professional lobbyist registered with the Secretary of State, whose reports give its positions on 3 bills since 2023. The disclosure form asks for exactly these sources: ones that pay lobbyists at the General Assembly.

What to check

The client's positions on the bills (each bill's page lists who lobbied it), and how they voted on them.
Whether the organization is the same one (a name can be shared by unrelated organizations).

Rule: Income from a lobbyist's client

“The source is regulated by the state or pays for a lobbyist to lobby at the General Assembly or at a state regulatory body”Form CPF-13 (Rev. 06/2026), instructions: Sources of Compensation ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Lobbying

121 bills they voted on were lobbied by donors to their campaign ($4,050 from 3 clients)

Clients of professional lobbyists that gave to their 2026 campaign took positions on 121 bills they voted on (their latest floor vote). The largest: Colorado Professional Fire Fighters ($3,000); Colorado Optometric Association ($600); Conservation Colorado ($450). Where those donors clearly supported or opposed a bill, their vote went the donors' way on 81 of 86. Two public records read together: it doesn't mean either one caused the other.

What to check

The bills and each client's position (Bills their donors lobbied on, on their page).
Most lobbied bills draw clients on both sides; a vote with one donor can be a vote against another.

Rule: Bills their donors lobbied on

How this rule works

Context Gifts

$300 in gifts from ANGELA ENGEL LLC in 2025, over the gift ban's $75 limit unless an exception applies

Their own gift reports list 1 item from ANGELA ENGEL LLC received in 2025, worth $300.00 in all: Gift to all panelists who were part of a community forum given after the event. ($300.00). The Colorado Constitution's gift ban limits what an official may accept from one person in a calendar year to $75 (as adjusted for inflation), with exceptions: food and admission where they speak or answer questions, a nonprofit's or government's reasonable expenses for a meeting where they take part, gifts from relatives and personal friends on a special occasion, tokens and informational material, and anything they paid fair value for. The description (“panelists”) suggests one may apply. Reporting a gift is required either way; the report doesn't say which exception, if any, applies.

What to check

Whether an exception in art. XXIX, sec. 3(3) applies: a speaking role or scheduled program, a nonprofit (under 5% for-profit funding) or government paying for a meeting they took part in, a relative or personal friend, or payment of fair value by the official.
The Independent Ethics Commission's advisory opinions and letter rulings on similar gifts.
The report itself in TRACER (Supplemental Reports: Gifts, Honoraria and Other Benefits).

Rule: Gifts over the gift ban's limit

“shall solicit, accept or receive any gift or other thing of value having either a fair market value or aggregate actual cost greater than fifty dollars ($50) in any calendar year”Colorado Constitution, art. XXIX, sec. 3(2) (the Independent Ethics Commission's copy); the limit is $75 from 2023 (IEC Position Statement 23-01) ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Gifts they reported

What Gretchen Rydin listed on their quarterly reports of gifts, honoraria and other benefits since 2024: $300 across 1 item from 1 source. Givers who are clients of a registered lobbyist are marked.

From	What, when	Value
ANGELA ENGEL LLC $300 in all	GIFT TO ALL PANELISTS WHO WERE PART OF A COMMUNITY FORUM GIVEN AFTER THE EVENT. · 2025-05-15	$300

From the reports in TRACER (search them: Gifts and Honoraria Report). Officials file one each quarter in which they receive a reportable item (C.R.S. 24-6-203).

Campaign money: State House District 38

$71,677itemized, 279 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Where their outside money comes from

50%30%15%

IndividualsBusinessesTrade, professional and issue groupsLabor unionsTribal governmentsPolitical partiesOther candidates and officeholders

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How it was spent: $41,686

Fundraising Expenses$26,469

Advertising$10,322

Office Equipment & Supplies$2,515

Miscellaneous$1,401

Consultants and professional services$640

Food and meals$240

Toward independent expenditures$71

Bank Fees$28

Largest payees: 40 NORTH ADVOCACY $20,509 Fundraising Expenses · THE BUFFALO FIRM LLC $14,000 Fundraising Expenses · CORAZON PRINTING $2,206 Office Equipment & Supplies · BACA POLICY $640 Consultants and professional services · MAIL CHIMP $602 Fundraising Expenses · ACTBLUE NF $489 Fundraising Expenses · COLORADO DEMOCRATAIC PARATY $433 Miscellaneous · JEFFERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY $423 Miscellaneous

Expenditures their committee reported to TRACER over the election cycle, by the type the committee gave; a consultant's payments to others (ads, mail) show under the consultant.

Top contributors	Type	Total
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Washington	Small Donor Committee	$3,100
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$3,000
COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS Denver	Political Committee	$3,000
CO AFL-CIO Denver	Labor Union	$2,500
COLORADO DENTAL SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COLO ASSOC OF REALTORS PAC: ELECT CANDIDATES THAT SUPPORT RIGHT TO Englewood	Political Committee	$1,550
COLORADO WINS SDC Pueblo	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
HEALTHIER COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
SHEET METAL WORKERS' SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$850
COLORADO ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$600
COLORADO OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION Denver	Business	$600
COLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CTLA) Denver	Small Donor Committee	$550
CAREPOINT HEALTH LLC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Greenwood Villlage	Unknown	$500
AMY CONKLIN Science/Technology · SELF EMPLOYED · Littleton	Individual	$500

Committees: GRETCHEN FOR COLORADO. From the Secretary of State's TRACER bulk files.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Labor union · Washington	$6,200	56
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$6,000	56
COLORADO AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPARTISAN SMALL DONOR Labor union · Denver	$6,000	31
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$5,000	63
COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS SMALL DONOR FUND Labor union · Denver	$5,000	48
COLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CTLA) Group or PAC · Denver	$3,550	58
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Group or PAC · Englewood	$3,100	56
SEIU LOCAL 105 SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE FOR WORKING FAMILIES Labor union · Denver	$3,000	17
BUILDING A STRONGER COLORADO Group or PAC · Los Angeles	$3,000	44
VOICES FOR CHOICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$2,500	16
PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$2,500	36
AFL-CIO Labor union · Denver	$2,500	2
COLORADO DENTAL SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Greenwood Village	$2,000	31
SHEET METAL WORKERS' SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Labor union · Denver	$1,950	60
COLORADO WINS SDC Group or PAC · Pueblo	$1,725	57