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- Supported water property rights
- Voted for local control of water solutions
- Repair existing reservoirs before building
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- Work to develop clean and affordable energy options
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- Oppose duplicate governmental services/laws
- Provide an educated workforce for the future
- Help small business survive
- Strengthened laws to prevent ID theft
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As a State Legislator, Ramey sponsored the following common sense bills – all signed into law by the Governor: |
Worker's compensation benefits strengthened and much of the red tape cut.
- Two bills closed some of the loopholes in Colorado’s child pornography laws.
- The State Veteran's Home at Fitzsimmons will continue to provide quality care to veterans, and benefits will not decrease.
- Hospitals must now notify a patient PRIOR to turning in their name over to a collection agency for bad debt. If an insurance company did not pay the bill, the patient should not be the last one to know.
- If a person fraudulently reports abuse or neglect regarding at-risk adults to social services it is now a misdemeanor – the same as fraudulent reporting of child abuse. 20% of the cases reported to social services regarding adult abuse are "family members creating problems for other family members."
- Patients may elect to have their diagnosis/symptom noted on their prescriptive drug label. Typically, seniors take 8-12 prescription meds per day and often don't know why they are taking them. Colorado is the first state in the nation to pass such legislation.
- A study was created to explore the benefits of moving the Colorado Geological Survey to the Colorado School of Mines. This would remove TABOR restrictions on receiving adequate grant money.
- Anyone using the title "nurse" must now have the education, licensure, and expertise of that title. People expect a certain level of trust and confidentiality when they confide in a nurse.
- First year college students now receive disclosure of the availability of the meningitis vaccine following an 8% increase of meningitis incidents among freshmen in communal living on college campuses.
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