27 Facts About Dianne Primavera

Dianne Primavera represented House District 33, centered around Broomfield, Colorado.

Dianne Primavera was reelected in 2014 and did not seek reelection in 2016.

Dianne Primavera began her career as a case manager for the Weld County Community Center Board.

Dianne Primavera later was employed as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the Colorado Department of Social Services, and rose to become a supervisor in the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.

Dianne Primavera joined the Colorado Department of Revenue in 2001, working as a director first in the Titles and Registration division, and then in Emissions and Constituent Relations from 2003 through 2004.

Dianne Primavera was the conference director for the White House Conference on Aging, working with the Division of Aging and Adult Services in the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Dianne Primavera has operated a small dog-grooming business since her teenage years.

Dianne Primavera returned to managing a small business she has run since being a teenager.

Dianne Primavera represented House District 33 including Broomfield, Superior and part of Erie.

Dianne Primavera was elected to represent House District 33 in 2006 and 2008 and again in 2012 and 2014.

Dianne Primavera received roughly $60,000 in campaign donations, outraising Berens by about two to one.

Dianne Primavera prevailed in the general election with just over 51 percent support, winning by slightly less than 1000 votes.

Dianne Primavera filed to run for a second term in 2007; Republican Nick Kliebenstein announced his bid to seek Dianne Primavera's seat in July of that year.

Dianne Primavera won re-election, defeating Kliebenstein by several thousand votes, or 56 percent of ballots cast, a greater margin than her first election win in 2006.

In 2012, Dianne Primavera announced she would seek election the House district 33 seat she held through 2010.

Dianne Primavera supported an unsuccessful bill to require cervical cancer vaccinations, and later introduced another bill, that was signed into law, to create a public awareness program for cervical cancer vaccinations, and require that Medicaid and private health insurance cover the costs of the vaccine.

Dianne Primavera sponsored a successful bill to require that minors be required to wear helmets while riding motorcycles, which passed despite strong opposition from House Republicans.

In February 2008, Dianne Primavera was unanimously elected vice-chair of the Legislative Audit Committee.

Dianne Primavera sponsored legislation to alter the process for criminal offenders' designation as a "sexually violent predator;" under her proposal, only judges, rather than parole boards, would be able to apply the designation.

Dianne Primavera sponsored legislation to create a tax checkoff for the Adult Stem Cells Cure Fund, designed to promote umbilical cord blood donations.

Dianne Primavera was the House sponsor of legislation to create the Colorado Autism Commission, legislation to require that health insurance the terms, costs, and benefits of their insurance plans on a public website, and legislation to earmark some tax revenues from gambling to gambling addiction prevention and counseling.

Dianne Primavera sponsored a bipartisan bill extending the Colorado job growth incentive tax credit which rewards Colorado businesses for creating jobs and helps attract new businesses to the state.

Dianne Primavera sponsored a bill allowing a nurse or qualified individual to administer an epi-pen to a student suffering anaphylactic shock.

Dianne Primavera sponsored legislation extending the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment and Prevention program through 2019.

Dianne Primavera sponsored a bipartisan bill creating a tax break for small businesses with less than $15,000 in business personal property.

In 1988, Dianne Primavera was diagnosed with breast cancer and given less than 5 years to live by physicians.

Dianne Primavera was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1992 and has survived a total of four bouts with cancer and has participated in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.