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Welcome!State Representative Joe Miklosi's 2010 Accomplishments
It is a pleasure to serve you and your family in the Colorado State House of Representatives in District 9, southeast Denver and Arapahoe County. The 2010 legislative session concluded on May 12, 2010. Below and throughout the web site are some of the major accomplishments. I'm running for re-election on November 2, 2010 and I would appreciate your support. Each day, I get up and think about creative ways I can serve you, save the taxpayer's money, and help create jobs. I rely on my six years of business experience, where I helped start an Internet software company, my 12 years of public policy experience, and my years of nonproft management experience, where I work for Project C.U.R.E., a Colorado nonprofit organization that provides donated medical supplies to hospitals in over 120 developing nations, to make Colorado a better place to live, raise a family, earn a good paying job, and retire with dignity. During the past two years, we have been working hard for you and your family by cutting over $3.5 billion dollars from the Colorado state budget while balancing it, cut my pay 2.5%, helped create 15,000 renewable energy jobs, and reduced taxes for 30,000 small businesses. Colorado's unemployment rate is two percentage points beneath the national average, in part, because of our efforts. We have also focused on government accountability and transparency, reduced fraud, and made government run more like a business. For example, visit http://www.colorado.gov/taxtracks/ and see your hard earned tax dollars are being used by the state government of Colorado. We are doing more with less and we are standing up for you, your family, and your small business. At every step in the process, we have to continually ask ourselves what type of state do we want to live in and what do want Colorado to look like in 20 years? Most Coloradoans would reply that they want quality K-20 public schools where any child who works hard can earn a college degree from a world-renown, Colorado college or university after a successful K-12 experience; a diverse, robust economy that offers high paying jobs with good benefits in aerospace, engineering, renewable energy, tourism, agriculture, law, medicine, education, and other professions; and a place where health care is affordable for their families and businesses. What type of state do you want to live in? I would like to hear your vision for Colorado. Email me at Joe@JoeMiklosi.com To that end, I worked on jumpstarting our economy, improve our schools, and increasing access to affordable, quality health care. Renewable Energy Job Creation Act - Installing solar, wind, geothermal, and energy efficiency upgrades should be simple and affordable but many homeowners have difficulty accessing financing to pay for it. I've spent the past year working with the renewable energy industry on an innovative idea to make it easier for you to reduce your energy bill, increase your property value, and green your home - all while helping the renewable energy industries create jobs. The Renewable Energy Job Creation Act will allow you and 50,000 homeowners to voluntarily join a statewide special improvement district, collectively bond on the bond market, receive up to $25,000 to do energy improvements to your home, and pay the loan back at a fixed rate over 20 years through your property taxes. The average payment will range from $500 to $1,500 a year. The benefits are many: your property value will increase 8% to 10% long term, the state will create 2,000 to 3,000 good-paying jobs, and help attract renewable energy manufacturing companies to Colorado, without raising taxes. Health Care Clean Claims Act - Processing a medical bill for doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and small business owners should not require a PhD. That is why I passed a landmark bill to streamline and uniform the billing and reimbursement medical process, which will save the state of Colorado approximately $100 millions dollars during the next decade. These savings can be used to provide better health care for all Coloradoans. Online Business Convenience Act - If you own a business or if you want to update your individual contact information with the state of Colorado, you should be able to conveniently and securely update your address at the Colorado Department of Revenue web site. This bill will save $116,000 of taxpayer and complements a bill I passed last year that empowers Colorado voters to register to vote at the secure Secretary of State web site. Conveniently register to vote right now, online, at www.sos.state.co.us Reducing Recidivism Act - The State of Colorado needs to do a better job of training prisoners with skills that better align with the needs of the business community. Approximately 95% of prisoners will be released. If we don't provide a pathway for re-entry into society, they will recidivate and it will cost Colorado taxpayers nearly $30,000 a year to incarcerate them. I passed a bill that will create high standards for the job training program, track and monitor progress of job training programs, and re-align the programs so they better address the needs of the business community. Thanks for visiting my online office. Never forget - together - we can make a difference! Sincerely, 
Joe Miklosi
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