These are some of the elected officials, candidates, and leaders of the Republican Party in Las Animas County.

Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal & Civil Actions

This bill would have made it a crime to use AI to create child pornography

Healthy School Meals For All

This program helped our schools survive tight budgets, gave our kids healthier school meals, and created customers for our family farms and ranches. Ty voted against it five times. Each of these bills was a necessary part of making Healthy School Meals for All a reality:

• SB23-221 — Healthy School Meals for All Program Fund (2023): NO. Created the account to receive Proposition FF revenue, authorized its use to implement the program, and made the initial appropriation.
• HB24-1390 — School Food Programs (2024): NO on third reading. Dealt directly with the program’s funding, recreated the local school-food purchasing programs, and addressed the program’s finances.
• HB25-1274 — Healthy School Meals for All Program (2025): NO on third reading.
• HB25-1274: NO again on repassage after Senate amendments — a second recorded vote against the same bill.
• SB25B-003 — Healthy School Meals for All (2025 special session): NO on final passage. Dealt directly with the program’s funding and the 2025 ballot measure.

Child Marriage

This bill would have prohibited a 16-year-old from marrying a 30-year-old.

Conversational Artificial Intelligence Service Operator Requirements

This bill would have prohibited AI chatbots from making sexually explicit content for children.

Prohibit Surveillance Price & Wage Setting

This bill would have prevented corporations and employers from using AI/personal data to individually set prices or wages.

Large Employer Worker Health-Care Support

Would have required employers with 500 employees or more to either provide their workers with affordable health insurance or pay a surcharge for every employee getting Medicaid

Personal Protective Equipment & Meatpackers

Prevents employers from charging employees for personal protective equipment and requires large meatpacking plants to give their employees reasonable bathroom breaks

Worker Protection Collective Bargaining

This eliminated Colorado’s requirement for a second election before a union could negotiate a union-security agreement. Under the old Labor Peace Act system, workers could organize by simple majority, but then needed a separate vote with 75% approval for a union-security agreement. Ty voted NO both times it came up:

• SB25-005 — Worker Protection Collective Bargaining (2025): NO on final House passage. It passed 43–22, but Gov. Polis vetoed it.
• HB26-1005 — Worker Protection Collective Bargaining (2026): NO again. This was essentially the renewed effort, although the 2026 bill contained some additional collective-bargaining provisions. It again eliminated the second-election requirement. The House passed it 42–22.

Overtime Threshold for Agricultural Employees

Makes farm workers work two extra days (56 hours) before they can qualify for overtime. Touted as a relief for struggling farms and ranches. Family farms and family ranches don’t have large payrolls.

Front Range Passenger Rail District

This is the bill where he voted to remove Walsenburg. The language doesn’t explicitly say “remove Walsenburg,” but the bill repeals subsection (4) of the district law and adds a new subsection (4.5): the district goes from being defined by counties — which included Huerfano County along I-25, where Walsenburg sits — to a list of named municipalities that includes Pueblo, Starkville, and Trinidad and does not include Walsenburg. Before SB26-172, Colorado law (C.R.S. 32-22-103(4)) explicitly included Huerfano County in the district. The city and county governments in Walsenburg are very upset about being taken off.

Improve Customer Use Distributed Energy Resources

This bill prevents power companies from making unreasonable rules to prevent homeowners from installing their own solar power systems.

Tailor-made for Xcel Energy

A bill to require a feasibility study for nuclear power. Directed the state to allow an investor-owned utility with at least 500,000 customers to be reimbursed for up to $20 million. Xcel Energy is the only company in Colorado that meets that definition — it is the only provider that qualifies under this bill. Calls for construction on a nuclear plant to start no later than 2040. Xcel Energy does not provide electricity to anybody in our district. Our district population is not large enough to justify a nuclear plant. Unless we’re forced to let Xcel become our new provider, nobody in our district would benefit.