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Chris deGruy Kennedy Voting Record & Scorecard | Christian Employers Alliance

CO Representative

District: 30 • Democrat

2024 Alignment:

7.32%

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Rep. Chris deGruy Kennedy (D-CO-30) earned a 7% Christian Employers Alliance score for 2024, showing minimal alignment with biblical business policy positions. Chris deGruy Kennedy voted on 27 of the 28 key bills CEA scored in 2024. Chris deGruy Kennedy represents the 30th District in the Colorado House of Representatives. Highest category scores: Workforce Freedom (33%), Operational Freedom (13%), and Economic Freedom (0%).

Title

Lawmaker Position

HB 1004House 20243x

Reducing Recidivism by Helping Reformed Individuals Gain Employment through an Occupational Licensing Reform.

With CEA
This bill limits consideration of an occupational license applicant's criminal conviction to 3 years, unless the individual has been convicted of an additional crime. After 3 years, consideration is limited to "a conviction for a crime that is directly related to the profession or occupation for which the individual has applied for registration, certification, or licensure."
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Exodus 1:17 – "The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live."
Leadership Insight
The midwives exercised workforce freedom by refusing to follow immoral job requirements imposed by tyrannical authority. Workers have the right - and duty - to refuse tasks that violate conscience or cause harm to others. Workforce freedom protects employees from being forced to choose between their livelihood and their integrity. No employer or government can mandate participation in evil as a condition of employment.
HB 1008House 20245x

Increasing Construction Costs by Making General Contractors Liable for Wages if a Subcontractor Fails to Pay Employees.

Against CEA
This bill makes general contractors on construction projects liable for wages owed to all employees, including wages owed to an employee by a subcontractor. As a result, general contractors are responsible for paying a subcontractor's employees if the subcontractor fails to do so.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Matthew 20:13-15 – "But he answered one of them, 'I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'"
Leadership Insight
The landowner operated his vineyard without interference from envious workers or outside agitators. Operational freedom requires protection from frivolous lawsuits, regulatory overreach, and those who demand outcomes they didn't earn. Leaders who defend business operations from predatory attacks enable enterprises to function fairly and reward workers according to agreed terms.
HB 1039House 20244x

Infringing Religious Liberties of Public School Employees by Requiring Use of a Student's "Chosen Name."

Against CEA
This bill requires all public school employees to use a student's "chosen name," which is different from their legal name and chosen "to reflect the student's gender identity." Under the bill, "knowingly or intentionally using a name other than the student's chosen name or the knowing or intentional avoidance or refusal to use a student's chosen name is discriminatory."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Acts 4:19-20 – "Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to Him? As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."
Leadership Insight
When truth is silenced, darkness prevails. The apostles refused to edit their message for cultural comfort. Faithful leaders must speak what God says, even when it costs influence.
HB 1071House 20243x

Threatening Public Safety by Allowing Convicted Felons to Change Their Legal Name Due to Gender Identity.

Against CEA
Under existing law, a person who has previously been convicted of a felony may only change their legal name if a court finds "good cause." This bill provides that "good cause includes changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity." The bill does allow courts to require the person to provide public notice of the name change.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Genesis 1:27 – "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Leadership Insight
Human dignity flows from being made in God's image. Every life carries infinite worth because every person reflects the Creator. Leaders who defend life, liberty, and equality honor God's design. Image-bearers deserve protection from conception to natural death.
HB 1075House 20244x

Paving the Way for Socialized, Single-Payer Healthcare Through Model Legislation.

Against CEA
This bill requires the Colorado School of Public Health to "research and select draft model legislation that proposes a universal health-care system for Colorado that directly compensates providers." The model legislation must prioritize certain requirements, such as that the system "Ensures fair drug and hospital prices as well as fair payment to providers," "prohibits deductibles and copayments," and "premiums are in amounts that are determined based on an individual's ability to pay."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 55:2 – "Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare."
Leadership Insight
God questions spending on what fails to nourish or satisfy. Healthcare freedom means rejecting one-size-fits-all mandates that force individuals and employers into systems that violate conscience or fail to meet real needs. Leaders who protect healthcare choice allow families and businesses to pursue treatments, coverage, and providers aligned with their values - "eating what is good" rather than consuming what government prescribes.
HB 1172House 20242x

Increasing Government Central Planning of Property Development by Allowing the Creation of County Revitalization Authorities Empowered to Indebt Taxpayers.

Against CEA
This bill enacts the "County Revitalization Law," which authorizes counties to designate "county revitalization areas" and issue bonds (debt) to fund development, funded through sales and property tax revenue generated from the redeveloped property.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Samuel 8:10-18 – "Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, 'This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots... He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants... and you yourselves will become his slaves'"
Leadership Insight
Centralized power always demands sacrifice from the people. God warned Israel that human kings would grow government at the expense of liberty. Limited government protects freedom; expansive government enslaves. Leaders must resist the temptation to control what they should serve.
HB 1259House 20245x

Infringing Property Rights by Implementing Government-Determined Rent Control During a Declared Disaster.

Against CEA
This bill prohibits "price gouging" related to residential rent amounts during a declared disaster, if the "declaration specifically declares a material decrease in residential housing units." Under the bill, it is an "an unfair and unconscionable act or practice" if rent is increased more than the percentage increase over the previous year, or 10% of the rent prior to the disaster, whichever is greater. If a property was not offered prior to the disaster, "similar dwellings located in the designated area" are used to determine the amounts.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Matthew 20:13-15 – "But he answered one of them, 'I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'"
Leadership Insight
Jesus affirms the landowner's absolute right to manage his property without external interference. Economic freedom is rooted in the biblical principle that owners - not governments or envious neighbors - determine how resources are allocated. Leaders who defend property rights protect the foundation of free enterprise: voluntary agreements honored without coercion.
HB 1292House 20243x

Weakening Second Amendment Rights by Prohibiting the Sale of "Assault Weapons".

Against CEA
This bill prohibits the import, sale, manufacture, purchase, or transfer of "assault weapons." The bill also prohibits possession of "a rapid-fire trigger activator."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 22:36 – "He said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.'"
Leadership Insight
Jesus affirms the right to self-defense. Preparedness is not paranoia - it's stewardship of safety. Leaders who defend the Second Amendment defend the biblical principle that protection is both a right and a responsibility. Security begins with the citizen, not the state.
HB 1318House 20242x

Infringing Property Rights by Prohibiting Landlords from Requiring Tenants to Restore Property to Previous Condition if Disability Modifications are Made.

Against CEA
This bill eliminates language which allowed landlords to require, as a condition of approving reasonable modifications for a disabled tenant, that the property be restored to the previous conditions.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee proclaimed economic liberty - restoration of property, cancellation of debts, and freedom from bondage. Economic freedom follows this biblical pattern: protecting property rights, enabling debt relief through bankruptcy rather than permanent servitude, and ensuring families can rebuild wealth across generations. Government policies that permanently trap families in poverty, extract generational wealth through death taxes, or prevent property ownership contradict Jubilee's vision of economic restoration.
HB 1322House 20244x

Growing Government Dependency by Studying Expansion of Medicaid to Cover Nutrition and Housing Services.

Against CEA
This bill requires the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to conduct a study on expanding Medicaid to cover "nutrition, housing, and tenant supportive services that address members' health-related social needs in order to determine whether to seek a federal authorization to provide the services." The department is required to "seek federal authorization no later than July 1, 2025" if it finds that the expansion "would be budget neutral."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Haggai 1:6 – "You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."
Leadership Insight
When priorities drift from purpose, prosperity leaks away. God doesn’t bless motion - He blesses alignment. Economic freedom begins when stewardship follows divine order.
HB 1341House 20243x

Advancing a Politicized Environmental Agenda by Allowing Localities to Adopt Vehicle Idling Restrictions that are More Stringent than State Standards.

Against CEA
This bill allows local governments to enact an "idling standard" that is more stringent than the state standard, which prohibits vehicle idling for more than 5 minutes within a 60-minute timeframe. Any local idling standard must be at least as stringent as the state standard. Previously, local governments were prohibited from enacting more stringent standards.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
HB 1349House 20245x

Attacking Second Amendment Rights through Additional Taxes on Firearms and Ammunition - Resulting in a 17.5% Sales Tax Rate.

Against CEA
This bill enacts the "Crime Victim and Survivor Services Funding and Mental Health Security Act," which refers a ballot issue to voters to establish an excise tax on retail sales of firearms, firearm precursor parts, and ammunition equal to 6.5% of the sale price. As a result, purchasers of firearms and ammunition may face a sales tax rate of up to 17.5% when factoring in the state tax (6.5%) and the federal tax (10% or 11%). According to the bill's fiscal note, the state excise tax is estimated to generate $81.7 million over the next 3 fiscal years. The measure serves to punish law-abiding individuals who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights through outrageous levels of taxation.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 22:36 – "He said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.'"
Leadership Insight
Jesus affirms the right to self-defense. Preparedness is not paranoia - it's stewardship of safety. Leaders who defend the Second Amendment defend the biblical principle that protection is both a right and a responsibility. Security begins with the citizen, not the state.
HB 1353House 20242x

Hiking Firearm Prices by Imposing New Permitting and Training Mandates on Dealers.

Against CEA
This bill requires all firearms dealers to obtain a state permit and imposes new training requirements and mandates on dealers. Under the bill, dealers must complete government-mandated training each year, and requires each firearm to be secured "except when the firearm is being shown to a customer, repaired, or otherwise worked on."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Galatians 5:1 – "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Leadership Insight
Freedom is not the absence of restraint; it is the presence of divine purpose. Christ purchased liberty not for comfort but for courage. A free leader under God becomes unshakable, even when culture shifts.
HB 1378House 20241x

Growing Government Interference in the Private Marketplace Through Overreaching Regulations on Ticket Sales.

Against CEA
This bill expands prohibited deceptive trade practices for ticket sellers. Under the bill, it is a deceptive trade practice to sell an entertainment ticket "without disclosing the total ticket cost, inclusive of all ancillary fees that must be paid in order to purchase the ticket, the first time a price is displayed to the purchaser and anytime the price is displayed thereafter." It is also a deceptive trade practice to sell an entertainment ticket "without disclosing in a clear and conspicuous manner the portion of the ticket cost that represents a service charge for the purchase or other fee or surcharge."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee proclaimed economic liberty - restoration of property, cancellation of debts, and freedom from bondage. Economic freedom follows this biblical pattern: protecting property rights, enabling debt relief through bankruptcy rather than permanent servitude, and ensuring families can rebuild wealth across generations. Government policies that permanently trap families in poverty, extract generational wealth through death taxes, or prevent property ownership contradict Jubilee's vision of economic restoration.
HB 1434House 20242x

Fueling Wealth Redistribution and Cronyism by Channeling Tens of Millions in Additional Tax Credits to Owners of Affordable Housing Developments.

Against CEA
This bill increases the maximum amount of affordable housing tax credits the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority may issue to owners of low-income housing developments for 8 years. Under the bill, an additional $20 million may be issued in 2024; $16 million in 2025, $12 million in 2026, 2027, and 2028; and $20 million in 2029, 2030, and 2031. The bill also creates a new tax credit for "affordable housing located in a transit-oriented community." Under this tax credit, $2 million may be issued in 2025, 2026, and 2027; $11 million in 2028; and $13 million in 2029.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 11:1 – "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with Him."
Leadership Insight
Integrity in business is not optional - it’s spiritual obedience. Every transaction reflects the character of the Kingdom. Honesty is Heaven’s currency for influence.
HCR 1002House 20243x

Increasing Public Safety and Expanding Judicial Discretion by Removing the Right to Bail for First-Degree Murder "When Proof Is Evident or Presumption Is Great".

With CEA
This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment eliminating the right to bail for first-degree murder "when proof is evident or presumption is great."
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.
SB 168House 20241x

Growing Government Dependency by Expanding the Medicaid Welfare Program to Now Cover Telehealth Remote Monitoring and Continuous Glucose Monitors.

Against CEA
This bill expands coverage under Medicaid (government-provided healthcare) to now include "telehealth remote monitoring for outpatient clinical services" and continuous glucose monitors, as opposed to just the less costly traditional monitors and test strips. The bill also creates the Telehealth Remote Monitoring Grant Program "to provide grants to outpatient health-care facilities" in rural areas, and areas with a shortage of healthcare providers, "to assist the hospitals and clinics with the financial costs associated with providing telehealth remote monitoring for outpatient clinical services."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
2 Corinthians 9:7 – "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
Leadership Insight
Generosity must be voluntary, not coerced. God values the heart behind the gift more than the amount. Leaders who defend economic freedom protect the right to give joyfully without government compulsion. Forced redistribution replaces worship with resentment.
SB 173House 20242x

Imposing a Draconian New Licensing Regime on Mortuary Science Practitioners Which Increases Employment Barriers and Restricts Competition.

Against CEA
This bill requires funeral directors, mortuary science practitioners, embalmers, cremationists, and natural reductionists to obtain a mortuary science professional license. To become licensed, individuals must meet certain requirements. For example, a funeral director must graduate from an accredited mortuary science school, pass the arts section of a national examination, and have 1 year of "workplace learning experience."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee freed servants and restored them to their families - the ultimate workforce freedom. Workers trapped in union contracts they never signed, forced to pay dues to organizations they oppose, or locked into employment arrangements that feel like bondage need Jubilee liberation. Workforce freedom proclaims liberty throughout the land: the right to work without forced representation, to negotiate directly, and to return to the "family property" of one's own labor and earnings.
SB 175House 20243x

Increasing Health Insurance Premiums by Requiring Health Benefit Plans Cover Doula Services.

Against CEA
This bill requires large employer, small group, and individual health benefit plans to cover doula services to the same extent as under Medicaid (government-provided healthcare). Additionally, the bill expands Medicaid to include over-the-counter choline supplements for individuals who are pregnant. Each and every health insurance mandate or price control on co-payments prevents individuals from having the ability to select a plan with just basic or customized coverages to fit their specific needs. As a result, health insurers are forced to only offer costly plans loaded with coverages that most individuals do not need. This can result in lower-income or younger individuals opting to purchase no insurance plan at all due to the high cost.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Romans 14:3-4 – "The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall."
Leadership Insight
Paul's protection of conscience applies directly to healthcare freedom. No government or employer has authority to mandate medical treatments, vaccines, or procedures that violate sincere religious or moral conviction. Healthcare freedom means patients and providers can follow conscience in medical decisions without coercion, contempt, or punishment. When healthcare mandates override conscience, they violate the biblical principle that each person is accountable to their own Master.
SB 189House 20244x

Fueling Unequal Application of the Law by Expanding "Bias-Motivated Crimes" to Include "Transgender Identity".

Against CEA
This bill adds "transgender identity" to the list of characteristics included in "bias-motivated crime" and "harassment." Under existing law, it is a misdemeanor to commit certain offenses, such as causing bodily injury or property damage, because of protected characteristics. Hate crimes and other penalty enhancements go against equal application of justice under the law by providing certain individuals with greater protections than others.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 12:58 – "As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison."
Leadership Insight
Jesus warns against rushing to court - wisdom that protects operational freedom from predatory litigation. Businesses today face adversaries who weaponize lawsuits to extract settlements, destroy reputations, and bankrupt enterprises through legal costs alone. Operational freedom requires tort reform, loser-pays provisions, and protection from frivolous claims that use the courthouse as a tool of extortion rather than justice.
SB 2House 20242x

Further Growing Government Central Planning by Allowing Localities to Create Economic Development Programs Through Property Tax Credits and Rebates.

Against CEA
This bill allows localities to enact "an incentive program to directly incentivize improvement in an area of specific local concern" through property tax credits and rebates. The free market and private sector - not government central planning - is the best mechanism to determine the need and level of investment in certain industries.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 11:1 – "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with Him."
Leadership Insight
Integrity in business is not optional - it’s spiritual obedience. Every transaction reflects the character of the Kingdom. Honesty is Heaven’s currency for influence.
SB 218House 20245x

Raising Electricity Costs by Requiring Utilities to "Modernize" Systems to Promote Environmental Goals.

Against CEA
This bill requires investor-owned utility companies serving at least 500,000 customers to "upgrade the state's electrical distribution systems" in order to "support the achievement of the state's beneficial and transportation electrification and decarbonization goals" and other "air quality and decarbonization targets, standards, plans, and regulations." If a utility's plans "strategically benefit or advance the applicable targets, standards, plans, and regulations," they may recover the costs from consumers "through the grid modernization adjustment clause." Finally, the bill requires the Office of Future of Work to "create a grant program for lineworker apprenticeship programs" and requires $800,000 be transferred to the program.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on those who issue oppressive decrees - regulations, mandates, and compliance requirements that crush businesses and deprive workers of opportunity. Operational freedom fights the bureaucratic oppression that kills small businesses, prevents entrepreneurship, and protects established interests at the expense of new entrants. When licensing laws, zoning restrictions, and regulatory burdens make it impossible for the poor to start businesses, government becomes the oppressor Isaiah condemns.
SB 5House 20242x

Advancing Government Overreach and a Radical Environmental Agenda by Banning Most Grass Yards on Commercial and Industrial Property.

Against CEA
This bill prohibits the installation of "nonfunctional turf, artificial turf, or invasive plant species" on commercial and industrial property, in road medians, state property, and other locations. This includes "nonnative grasses or grasses that have not been hybridized for arid conditions."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 29:2 – "When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Leadership Insight
Righteous governance creates environments where businesses operate freely and fairly; wicked rulers weaponize regulation, licensing, and bureaucracy to control enterprises. Operational freedom thrives when leaders protect businesses from government overreach and predatory litigation. When the wicked rule, businesses groan under arbitrary enforcement, selective prosecution, and rules designed to punish rather than protect.
SB 66House 20243x

Infringing Second Amendment Rights and Privacy by Requiring Use of a Firearms Merchant Code to Track Credit and Debit Card Purchases at Firearms Stores.

Against CEA
This bill requires the "merchant category code for firearms and ammunition businesses" to be applied to purchases made at firearms merchants, which allows credit and debit card companies and banks to identify purchases made at these stores. This measure threatens the privacy rights of individuals exercising their second amendment rights.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 22:36 – "He said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.'"
Leadership Insight
Jesus affirms the right to self-defense. Preparedness is not paranoia - it's stewardship of safety. Leaders who defend the Second Amendment defend the biblical principle that protection is both a right and a responsibility. Security begins with the citizen, not the state.
SB 75House 20242x

Increasing Consumer Costs by Imposing New Requirements on Rideshare Companies and Authorizing a "Driver Support Organization".

Against CEA
This bill imposes several new regulations on Transportation Network Companies (TNC) (such as Uber and Lyft), such as requiring disclosure of certain information before a driver accepts a trip, such as the payment amount a driver will receive, estimated mileage, and estimated time. After a trip is completed, the bill requires disclosure of the amount of the customer paid. Additionally, the bill requires companies to adopt "deactivation and suspension policies." Finally, the bill requires the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics to certify a "driver support organization." Companies are required to allow drivers to automatically deduct between 1.5-3% for contributions to the driver support organization.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Galatians 5:1 – "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Leadership Insight
Freedom is not the absence of restraint; it is the presence of divine purpose. Christ purchased liberty not for comfort but for courage. A free leader under God becomes unshakable, even when culture shifts.
SB 99House 20242x

Increasing Taxpayer Costs by Allowing Additional Education Employees to Return to Work While Continuing to Receive Retirement Benefits.

Against CEA
This bill expands the positions for which a retired public employee may return to work at a rural school district without any reduction in the employee's retirement benefits. Under the bill, superintendents and principals are added to the list that already included teachers, school bus drivers, school food services cooks, school nurses, and paraprofessionals.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 11:1 – "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with Him."
Leadership Insight
Integrity in business is not optional - it’s spiritual obedience. Every transaction reflects the character of the Kingdom. Honesty is Heaven’s currency for influence.
SJR 8House 20245x

Declaring Support for Millions in Additional Spending for the State's "Family Planning Program".

Against CEA
This resolution "declares the state's commitment to adequately funding the Title X program in order to provide comprehensive reproductive care to Coloradans across the state and to decrease the number of unintended pregnancies statewide." The federally-funded Family Planning Program "provides comprehensive reproductive health care to Coloradans," and according to the resolution, the state has "an estimated $20 million in unmet needs."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 139:13-16 – "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
Leadership Insight
David declares that God forms every person in the womb - a truth that shapes First Freedom's protection of religious pro-life conviction. Believers who hold that life begins at conception must be free to operate hospitals, businesses, and ministries according to this conviction. First Freedom protects religious organizations from being forced to fund, perform, or participate in abortion against their sincere belief that God is the Author of life from conception.
SB 230House 20245x

Driving Up Energy Prices by Imposing a New Fee on Oil and Natural Gas Producers.

Neutral
This bill imposes a "production fee" on oil and natural gas production in the state, with the amount determined by the market price for oil and natural gas. The fee applies to each barrel of oil and each million British thermal units (about 8 gallons) of natural gas produced, with the revenue used for "clean transit" projects and "wildlife and land remediation." According to the bill's fiscal note, this is estimated to generate $109.3 million in FY 2025-2026 and $175.3 million in FY 2026-2027.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Ecclesiastes 5:10 – "Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless."
Leadership Insight
The pursuit of wealth without purpose breeds emptiness. Leaders who prioritize accumulation over stewardship lose both meaning and influence. Contentment comes from mission, not margin. Economic freedom flourishes when purpose drives prosperity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Rep. Chris deGruy Kennedy's voting record?

Rep. Chris deGruy Kennedy (D-CO-30) earned a 7% Christian Employers Alliance score for 2024, showing minimal alignment with biblical business policy positions. Chris deGruy Kennedy voted on 27 of the 28 key bills CEA scored in 2024. Chris deGruy Kennedy represents the 30th District in the Colorado House of Representatives. Highest category scores: Workforce Freedom (33%), Operational Freedom (13%), and Economic Freedom (0%).

How aligned is Chris deGruy Kennedy with biblical business policy positions?

Chris deGruy Kennedy earned a 7% Christian Employers Alliance score in 2024, showing minimal alignment with biblical business policy positions.

What is Chris deGruy Kennedy's CEA score?

Chris deGruy Kennedy has a 7% CEA score for 2024.

Where does Chris deGruy Kennedy serve?

Rep. Chris deGruy Kennedy (D-CO-30) represents the 30th District in the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat.

What issue categories does Chris deGruy Kennedy score highest on?

Chris deGruy Kennedy's strongest categories on the Christian Employers Alliance scorecard are: Workforce Freedom (33%), Operational Freedom (13%), Economic Freedom (0%).

Where can I see Chris deGruy Kennedy's full voting record?

View the full list of scored bills, category breakdown, and year-over-year voting record above. Christian Employers Alliance updates this scorecard as new key votes are scored.

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