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Meghan Lukens

State House District 26

Running in 2026: State House District 26 (June 30) · State House District 26 (November 3)

In the Legislature

House District 26 D · 2,064 floor votes this session, 3% not voting

Committees they vote in: Education · Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources · Appropriations

Bills they lead: 66 (50 became law) — HB25-1006, HB25-1014, HB25-1056, HB25-1080, HB25-1085, HB25-1121, HB25-1135, HB25-1138, HB25-1152, HB25-1173, HB25-1186, HB25-1210 …

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 ($4,824 campaign)
HB25-1315 Vacancies in the General Assembly	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($4,824 campaign)
SB25-001 Colorado Voting Rights Act	Aye 2025-04-28	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($4,824 campaign)
HB26-1038 County Commissioner Redistricting	Aye 2026-04-21	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($4,824 campaign)
HB26-1023 Political Party Liability for Accessibility Requirements	Aye 2026-02-26	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($4,824 campaign)
HB26-1113 Modifications to Elections	Aye 2026-05-07	Colorado Democratic Party supporting ($4,824 campaign)
HB26-1203 Modification of County Commissioner Elections	Aye 2026-03-16	Colorado Democratic Party monitoring ($4,824 campaign)
SB25-038 Wildlife Damage Protection of Personal Information	Aye 2025-02-28	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($225 campaign)
SB25-039 Agricultural Buildings Exempt from Energy Use Requirements	Aye 2025-03-11	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($225 campaign)
HB25-1053 Landowner Immunity for Emergency Access to Property	Aye 2025-02-06	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
HB25-1283 Wild Horse Project Management & Immunocontraception	Aye 2025-04-23	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
HB25-1180 Prohibiting Pet Animal Sales in Public Spaces	Aye 2025-03-11	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-283 Funding Water Conservation Board Projects	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
HB25-1332 State Trust Lands Conservation & Recreation Work Group	Aye 2025-05-07	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-049 Continue Wildlife Habitat Stamp Program	Aye 2025-04-30	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
HB25-1131 Eliminate Student Cap at Colorado State University's Veterinary Program	Aye 2025-02-13	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-003 Semiautomatic Firearms & Rapid-Fire Devices	Aye 2025-03-24	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
SB25-005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	Aye 2025-05-06	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
HB25-1203 Misbranding Cultivated Meat Products as Meat	Aye 2025-03-10	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($225 campaign)
HB25-1034 Changes to Dangerous Dog Statute	Aye 2025-02-03	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
HB25-1023 Local Government Review of Fencing Projects	Aye 2025-05-01	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
HB25-1121 Permanent Trailer Registration	Aye 2025-04-30	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-053 Protect Wild Bison	No 2025-04-28	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($225 campaign)
HB25-1285 Veterinary Workforce Requirements	Not voting 2025-04-11	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($225 campaign)
SB25-168 Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking	Aye 2025-04-25	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-149 Local Government Duties Equestrian Protections	Aye 2025-04-14	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-176 Sunset Commodity Handler & Farm Products Act	Aye 2025-04-30	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-174 Sunset Outfitters & Guides	Aye 2025-04-21	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
HB25-1311 Deductions for Net Sports Betting Proceeds	Aye 2025-05-07	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)
SB25-026 Adjusting Certain Tax Expenditures	Aye 2025-05-02	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($225 campaign)

Personal Financial Disclosures

Income listed: up to $59,998 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
2026 Annual House District 26	2026-01-08	2 income sources, 2 colorado property
2025 House District 26	2025-07-29	2 income sources, 1 sources of compensation, 2 colorado property
2025 JHD AW	2025-01-09	2 income sources, 2 sources of compensation, 1 colorado property, 1 offices and directorships
2024 4A	2024-01-08	2 income sources, 4 sources of compensation, 1 compensated lobbying, 1 offices and directorships, 1 state-regulated businesses, 1 debts

Findings

Worth a look Late or missing

TRACER lists a penalty for a late financial disclosure (July 11, 2025)

The Secretary of State's campaign finance system lists a “Late PFD” penalty dated July 11, 2025 on their candidate record; its status: paid, waiver requested. 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

$1,958 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 $1,957.84 in all: Organizational and educational retreat ($1,957.84). 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 Late or missing

TRACER lists 1 late campaign finance report penalty this cycle

The candidate's committee has 1 late-filing penalty on reports due since January 1, 2025: Major Contributor Report (paid). A report filed late keeps the committee's money out of public view until it's in.

What to check

The penalties on the candidate's TRACER page: dates, amounts and waivers.
Whether a waiver was granted (the Secretary of State may waive for good cause).

Rule: Penalties for late campaign finance reports

“The Secretary of State imposes penalties of $50 per day for late filings, including weekends and holidays.”Colorado Campaign and Political Finance Manual (Secretary of State) ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Lobbying

58 bills they voted on were lobbied by donors to their campaign ($225 from 1 client)

Clients of professional lobbyists that gave to their 2026 campaign took positions on 58 bills they voted on (their latest floor vote). The largest: Colorado Cattlemen's Association ($225). Where those donors clearly supported or opposed a bill, their vote went the donors' way on 10 of 22. 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 Errors in the record

1 error in their public record: a disclosure that doesn't say why it was filed

We found these in the records as filed or as TRACER lists them, and read each as meant (shown here so anyone can check the reading): Their 2025 disclosure doesn't say why it was filed: none of the boxes (appointed, candidate, annual filing, amending) is ticked.

What to check

The original filing in TRACER for each one.
These don't change what we show: we use the amount, name or date as meant.

Rule: Errors in the record

How this rule works

Gifts they reported

What Meghan Lukens listed on their quarterly reports of gifts, honoraria and other benefits since 2024: $1,958 across 1 item from 1 source. Givers who are clients of a registered lobbyist are marked.

From	What, when	Value
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY CAUCUS $1,958 in all	ORGANIZATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL RETREAT · 2025-10-03	$1,957.84

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 26

$125,610itemized, 522 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Where their outside money comes from

49%34%11%

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

Plus $280 of their own money and from their earlier campaigns' committees. Compare with all state candidates →

How it was spent: $58,448

Advertising$26,758

Employee Services$24,255

Contributions$3,875

Fundraising Expenses$1,803

Consultants and professional services$1,156

Other$263

Rent & Utilities$188

Miscellaneous$150

Largest payees: GUSTO $23,430 Returned Expenditure · EYE CONTACT MEDIA LLC $18,000 Advertising · DEMOCRATIC HOUSE MAJORITY PROJECT $3,875 Contributions · BRIGHT STAR STRATEGIES $2,350 Advertising · STEAMBOAT RADIO BLIZZARD BROADCASTING $1,680 Advertising · BR PRINTERS $1,661 Advertising · MAILCHIMP $1,388 Consultants and professional services · SIGNROCKET.COM $1,288 Advertising

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
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Englewood	Small Donor Committee	$6,200
COLORADO AFL-CIO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (COLORADO AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRI Denver	Small Donor Committee	$6,000
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$4,000
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$3,100
BUILDING A STRONGER COLORADO Los Angeles	Small Donor Committee	$3,100
COLORADO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$3,100
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$3,000
VOICES FOR CHOICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$3,000
PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,450
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Washington	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
HEALTHIER COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COLORADO STATE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (FOP) Westminster	Small Donor Committee	$1,500
COLORADO DENTAL SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
COLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CTLA) Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
EAGLE COUNTY DEMOCRATS Basalt	Political Party Committee	$1,000

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

Outside spending for and against them

$64,243spent supporting them

$0spent opposing them

Spender		Amount
COLORADO WAY FORWARD general · notices in TRACER	for	$56,464
BLUE COLLAR ACTION FUND general · notices in TRACER	for	$7,779

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
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Group or PAC · Englewood	$12,400	56
PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$8,650	36
BUILDING A STRONGER COLORADO Group or PAC · Los Angeles	$6,200	44
COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS SMALL DONOR FUND Labor union · Denver	$6,000	48
COLORADO AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPARTISAN SMALL DONOR Labor union · Denver	$6,000	31
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$6,000	56
COLORADO AFL-CIO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (COLORADO AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRI Labor union · Denver	$6,000	54
VOICES FOR CHOICE SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$5,500	16
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Labor union · Washington	$5,100	56
COLORADO WINS SDC Group or PAC · Pueblo	$5,000	57
COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY Party committee · Denver · registered lobbyist employer	$4,824	37
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$4,000	63
COLORADO STATE CONFERENCE OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (CSCEW) Labor union · Denver	$4,000	27
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$3,100	42
COLORADO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Greenwood Village	$3,100	28