NONPARTISAN · SOURCED FROM CONGRESS.GOV, OPENFEC, SENATE & HOUSE CLERKS · UPDATED REGULARLY

Nonpartisan · Data from OpenStates / Plural Policy · Colorado

Democratic · Senator

Tony Exum

Represents District 11 in the State Senate.

Official site ↗ Email

Votes with Democrats

96%

on 246 party-line votes · Senate Democrats median 97%

Cast a vote

97%

Yea or Nay on 935 of 961 roll calls · Senate median 99%

Their bills that became law

25 of 27

as a primary sponsor, this session · Democrats median 23

Roll calls on record

961

2026 Regular Session

Votes and bills updated Oct 10, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 2026 Regular Session.

How Tony Exum votes

A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.

Where Tony Exum sits in the Senate

Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Tony Exum is circled.

Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side

Times they broke with their party

9 of 246 party-line votes.

HB1289 · Modification of Certain Tax Expenditures

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.002) · 2026-05-12 · Failed 17–18 · most Democrats voted the other way

HB1289 · Modification of Certain Tax Expenditures

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-05-12 · Failed 17–17 · most Democrats voted the other way

HB1274 · State Agency Payments to Grant Recipients

In plain English Allows state agencies to pay a percentage of a grant's total value to nonprofit recipients when executing or renewing grant agreements.

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-05-11 · Passed 21–13 · most Democrats voted the other way

SB140 · Exempt Drugs from Prescription Drug Affordability Board Reviews

In plain English Exempts certain drugs from review by the Colorado prescription drug affordability board.

Yea

Senate: Third Reading Bill · 2026-04-13 · Passed 20–15 · most Democrats voted the other way

HB1011 · Transfers of Certain Pet Animals

Nay

Senate: Third Reading Bill · 2026-03-30 · Passed 19–16 · most Democrats voted the other way

SB112 · Court Actions Related to Failure to Appear in Court

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-03-23 · Failed 16–17 · most Democrats voted the other way

SB112 · Court Actions Related to Failure to Appear in Court

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-03-23 · Passed 17–16 · most Democrats voted the other way

SB018 · Legal Protections for Dignity of Minors

In plain English Allows suppression of court records when a minor's name is legally changed.

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-02-23 · Failed 15–17 · most Democrats voted the other way

SR001 · Morgan County Road Improvements

Yea

Senate: Consideration of Resolutions Resolution · 2026-02-17 · Passed 18–12 · most Democrats voted the other way

Closest votes they cast

Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.

HB1274 · State Agency Payments to Grant Recipients

In plain English Allows state agencies to pay a percentage of a grant's total value to nonprofit recipients when executing or renewing grant agreements.

Yea

Senate: Miscellaneous Recede · 2026-05-13 · Failed 17–17

HB1289 · Modification of Certain Tax Expenditures

Yea

Senate: Committee of the Whole Cow * (s.001) · 2026-05-12 · Failed 17–17

SCR001 · Areas of Local Preemption

Nay

Senate Local Government & Housing: Refer SCR26-001 to the Committee on Appropriations. · 2026-04-30 · Failed 3–3

HB1418 · Online Add-on Transaction Fee Youth Service Enterprise

In plain English Requires social media platforms offering online gaming to young people to charge fees on add-on purchases and direct revenue to new enterprises funding youth mental health and programming services.

Yea

Senate: Third Reading Bill · 2026-05-13 · Passed 18–17

SB115 · Post-Conviction Relief for Certain Offenders

In plain English Allows certain imprisoned offenders to seek post-conviction relief and adjusts state funding accordingly.

Yea

Senate: House Amendments Repass · 2026-05-13 · Passed 18–17

Republicans they vote with most

Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.

Cleave SimpsonRepublican · District 6 · 274 shared contested votes

43%

Barbara KirkmeyerRepublican · District 23 · 271 shared contested votes

37%

Marc CatlinRepublican · District 5 · 285 shared contested votes

36%

Their session, month by month

Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (26 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

← Colorado Delegation

Their bills, from filing to law

Bills Tony Exum was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.

Introduced27

Out of committee27

Passed one chamber27

Passed both chambers27

Became law25

Never left committee0

For comparison, the median Democratic member of the Senate has 23 bills that became law this session.

What their bills are about

State Government 5Housing 3Transportation & Motor Vehicles 3Business & Economic Development 3Energy 3General Assembly 3

HB1187 ↗

Sunset Fire Suppression Programs

In plain English Extends the fire suppression programs of the division of fire prevention and control and implements recommendations from the department's 2025 sunset report.

Official synopsis: Concerning the continuation of the fire suppression programs of the division of fire prevention and control, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in the department's 2025 sunset report.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-06-03

SB002 ↗

Energy Affordability

In plain English Establishes a program allowing low-income utility customers to pay bills based on a percentage of their household income.

Official synopsis: Concerning energy affordability, and, in connection therewith, establishing a percentage-of-income payment plan program for income-qualified utility customers.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-06-02

HB1314 ↗

Family Stability & Kinship Care

In plain English Prioritizes placing children with relatives when they enter foster care and facilitates grandparent contact in certain circumstances.

Official synopsis: Concerning increasing family stability, and, in connection therewith, prioritizing kinship placements in certain circumstances and facilitating grandparent contact.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-06-01

SB117 ↗

Permissible Methods of Selling Lottery Tickets

Concerning permissible methods for the sale of lottery tickets.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-05-29

HB1005 ↗

Worker Protection Collective Bargaining

In plain English Reduces barriers in the Labor Peace Act to promote good faith collective bargaining negotiations.

Official synopsis: Concerning measures to reduce barriers in the "Labor Peace Act" to promote good faith collective bargaining negotiations, and, in connection therewith, reducing an appropriation.

VetoedGovernor Vetoed · 2026-05-28

HB1065 ↗

Transit and Housing Investment Zones

In plain English Creates transit and housing investment zones and appropriates money for related purposes.

Official synopsis: Concerning transit and housing investment zones, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-05-27

SB135 ↗

State Public K-12 Education Funding

In plain English Increases state funding for public K-12 education for ten years and allows the state to retain excess revenue for this purpose.

Official synopsis: Concerning state public education K-12 funding, and, in connection therewith, increasing appropriations for state public education K-12 for ten years, allowing the state to retain an amount of state revenue in excess of the limitation on state fiscal year spending equal to state public K-12…

Passed both chambersSigned by the Speaker of the House · 2026-05-20

HB1244 ↗

Department of Public Health and Environment Nursing Home Penalty Fund

In plain English Requires the health department to consider specified factors when distributing money from penalties collected from nursing homes.

Official synopsis: Concerning considerations for the department of public health and environment to use as a basis for making distributions from the nursing home penalty cash fund.

Became lawGovernor Signed · 2026-05-06

HB1303 ↗

Technical Changes to Energy & Carbon Management Statutes

Concerning technical changes to energy and carbon management statutes.