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Katie Stewart

State House District 59

Running in 2026: State House District 59 (June 30) · State House District 59 (November 3)

In the Legislature

House District 59 D · 2,064 floor votes this session, 1% not voting

Committees they vote in: Health & Human Services · Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources · Education

Bills they lead: 31 (22 became law) — HB25-1016, HB25-1163, HB25-1247, HB25-1248, HB26-1027, HB26-1051, HB26-1069, HB26-1109, HB26-1115, HB26-1123, HB26-1262, HB26-1328 …

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
HB25-1155 Modify Candidate Authority Watchers General Election	Aye 2025-02-13	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($12,534 campaign)
HB25-1315 Vacancies in the General Assembly	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($12,534 campaign)
SB25-001 Colorado Voting Rights Act	Aye 2025-04-28	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($12,534 campaign)
HB26-1038 County Commissioner Redistricting	Aye 2026-04-21	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($12,534 campaign)
HB26-1023 Political Party Liability for Accessibility Requirements	Aye 2026-02-26	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($12,534 campaign)
HB26-1113 Modifications to Elections	Aye 2026-05-07	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($12,534 campaign)
HB26-1203 Modification of County Commissioner Elections	Aye 2026-03-16	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($12,534 campaign)
HB25-1130 Labor Requirements for Government Construction Projects	Aye 2025-03-31	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1296 Tax Expenditure Adjustment	Aye 2025-05-07	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1269 Building Decarbonization Measures	Aye 2025-05-07	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	Aye 2025-05-06	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1001 Enforcement Wage Hour Laws	Aye 2025-05-07	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB25-1300 Workers' Compensation Benefits Proof of Entitlement	Aye 2025-05-07	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
SB25-081 Treasurer's Office	Aye 2025-04-25	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1081 Optimize Colorado Electric Transmission System	Aye 2026-04-14	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	Aye 2026-03-09	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1311 Retainage Surety Bond Construction Contracts	Aye 2026-03-23	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1245 Theft by Contractor	No 2026-04-21	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1317 Unified Postsecondary Talent Development System	Aye 2026-05-07	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1054 Protections for Worker Safety	Aye 2026-05-05	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
HB26-1272 Extreme Temperatures Worker Protections	Aye 2026-05-13	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-093 Workers' Compensation Insurance Coverage Verification	Aye 2026-05-09	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters supporting ($3,000 campaign)
SB26-156 Change Practices of Work Force Development Council	Aye 2026-05-11	Western States Regional Council of Carpenters monitoring ($3,000 campaign)

Personal Financial Disclosures

Income listed: up to $174,997; debts: up to $154,994 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
2026 Annual Representative for Colorado House District 59	2026-01-03	3 income sources, 6 debts
2025 Candidate Representative HD 59	2025-08-26	3 income sources, 4 debts
2025 Annual of Representatives	2025-01-10	3 income sources, 1 assets, 2 offices and directorships, 4 debts

Findings

Worth a look Late or missing

TRACER lists a penalty for a late financial disclosure (August 25, 2025)

The Secretary of State's campaign finance system lists a “Late PFD” penalty dated August 25, 2025 on their candidate record; its status: open. A disclosure is due within ten days of a candidate affidavit, and by January 10 each year for those in office; a late one accrues $50 a day until it's filed.

What to check

The penalty on the candidate's TRACER page (Penalties tab): the date, status and any waiver.
When the disclosure was then filed (their disclosures on this page).

Rule: A penalty for a late financial disclosure

“A $50 per day late filing penalty that will accrue until the statement is filed”Form CPF-13 (Rev. 06/2026), instructions: Candidate Filing Penalties ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Worth a look Gifts

$1,918 in gifts from COLORADO OPPORTUNITY CAUCUS in 2025, over the gift ban's $75 limit

Their own gift reports list 1 item from COLORADO OPPORTUNITY CAUCUS received in 2025, worth $1,917.84 in all: Organizational and educational retreat ($1,917.84). 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. 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

Context Lobbying

16 bills they voted on were lobbied by donors to their campaign ($3,000 from 1 client)

Clients of professional lobbyists that gave to their 2026 campaign took positions on 16 bills they voted on (their latest floor vote). The largest: Western States Regional Council of Carpenters ($3,000). Where those donors clearly supported or opposed a bill, their vote went the donors' way on 9 of 9. 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

Gifts they reported

What Katie Stewart listed on their quarterly reports of gifts, honoraria and other benefits since 2024: $1,918 across 1 item from 1 source. Givers who are clients of a registered lobbyist are marked.

From	What, when	Value
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY CAUCUS $1,918 in all	ORGANIZATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL RETREAT · 2025-10-03	$1,917.84

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 59

$152,612itemized, 461 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Where their outside money comes from

44%26%12%13%

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

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How it was spent: $49,762

Consultants and professional services$23,970

Advertising$16,898

Rent & Utilities$2,763

Bank Fees$2,161

Travel & Lodging$1,319

Other$1,000

Office Equipment & Supplies$965

Food and meals$423

Fundraising Expenses$152

Contributions$111

Largest payees: SOPHIA HARTT $17,558 Consultants and professional services · EYE CONTACT MEDIA $15,600 Advertising · JOEL DYER $3,000 Consultants and professional services · RED PEAK PROPERTIES $2,550 Rent & Utilities · MARGARET MIXER $1,730 Consultants and professional services · OPPORTUNITY CAUCUS $1,000 Other · MAILCHIMP $627 Consultants and professional services · AMAZON $535 Office Equipment & Supplies

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
COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY Denver	Political Party Committee	$10,000
LA PLATA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE Durango	Political Party Committee	$7,500
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$6,200
COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS SMALL DONOR FUND Denver	Small Donor Committee	$5,000
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Englewood	Small Donor Committee	$5,000
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$4,000
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$3,100
MONTEZUMA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE Cortez	Political Party Committee	$3,000
AFSCME COUNCIL 76 SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Englewood	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COBALT ADVOCATES SDC Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COLORADO DENTAL SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
HEALTHIER COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
VOICES FOR CHOICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,500
SHEET METAL WORKERS' SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,100
CAREPOINT HEALTH Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$1,000

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

Outside spending for and against them

$133,273spent supporting them

$0spent opposing them

Spender		Amount
COLORADO WAY FORWARD general · notices in TRACER	for	$65,405
PROSPERITY THROUGH PROPERTY RIGHTS general · notices in TRACER	for	$42,868
SOUTHWEST COLORADO FOR CHANGE general · notices in TRACER	for	$25,000

Independent expenditures from the 48-hour notices, 2026. The candidate doesn't control them. One that names several candidates is split evenly among them.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY Party committee · Denver · registered lobbyist employer	$12,534	37
COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS SMALL DONOR FUND Labor union · Denver	$11,000	48
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$7,200	63
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
VOICES FOR CHOICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$5,500	16
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Group or PAC · Englewood	$5,000	56
COLORADO STATE CONFERENCE OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CSCEW) Labor union · Denver	$4,000	27
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Labor union · Washington	$3,100	56
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$3,100	42
SEIU LOCAL 105 SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE FOR WORKING FAMILIES Labor union · Denver	$3,000	17
NEW ERA COLORADO ACTION FUND SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$3,000	6
COLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CTLA) Group or PAC · Denver	$3,000	58
COBALT ADVOCATES SDC Group or PAC · Denver	$2,500	51
SULLY'S ACTION FUND Group or PAC · Aurora	$2,500	7