Jonathan Singer is in his second term representing House District 11 in Longmont and northern Boulder County. He is vice chairman of the Public Health & Human Services Committee and serves on the L...

Jonathan Singer is in his second term representing House District 11 in Longmont and northern Boulder County. He is vice chairman of the Public Health & Human Services Committee and serves on the Local Government and Appropriations Committees.

Rep. Singer has played a key role in efforts to streamline and expand child welfare services, including establishing a statewide child abuse reporting hotline, creating child fatality prevention teams to review child deaths and recommend ways to prevent these tragedies, and expanding the list of individuals who must report suspected child abuse or neglect.

He is also the legislature’s leading authority on the laws and regulations implementing Amendment 64, the landmark 2012 referendum in which the people of Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana. He has sponsored numerous bills regulating the newly legalized retail marijuana industry, including the key bill establishing that the cost of regulation will be borne by marijuana consumers.

Rep. Singer sponsored the first bill introduced in the House in 2014, the session after the September 2013 floods that devastated parts of his district. HB14-1001 allows a property owner to be reimbursed for taxes that were paid on a property that was destroyed by a natural disaster.

He has also focused on improving transparency and efficiency in government, sponsoring bills to ensure that Colorado families get the tax credits they deserve, ensuring that employers pay employees their earned wages, and demanding fiscal responsibility in the state government.

Before becoming a legislator, Rep. Singer worked with Colorado’s most vulnerable families, most recently with child protection and family services in Boulder County. Before that, he worked for the Denver Office of Economic Development.

Rep. Singer received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from Colorado State University. He has been a volunteer in the community for most of his life, from sitting on the Long