Memorializing Senator MaryAnne Tebedo

Second Regular Session Seventy-fifth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED SJM26-003 LLS NO. M26-0851.01 Michael Pearsall x2044 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Snyder, Amabile, Baisley, Ball, Benavidez, Bridges, Bright, Carson, Catlin, Coleman, Cutter, Danielson, Daugherty, Exum, Frizell, Gonzales J., Hinrichsen, Jodeh, Kipp, Kirkmeyer, Kolker, Lindstedt, Marchman, Mullica, Pelton B., Pelton R., Rich, Rodriguez, Simpson, Sullivan, Wallace, Weissman, Zamora Wilson HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Keltie, Senate Committees House Committees SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 26-003 MEMORIALIZING FORMER SENATOR MARYANNE TEBEDO.

WHEREAS, MaryAnne Tebedo, the former Senator, departed this life on February 13, 2023, at the age of 86; and WHEREAS, MaryAnne Geivett Tebedo was born on October 30, 1936, in Denver, Colorado, to Harvey and Alma Geivett; and WHEREAS, She married the love of her life, Donald E. Tebedo, in 1954, and together they had six children; and WHEREAS, MaryAnne and her husband moved to Pueblo, Colorado, in 1958 where she became active in politics as a founding member of the Belnor Republican Women's Club; and WHEREAS, She was then recruited by the Republican party to Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.

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SENATE Final Reading March 17, 2026 open an office for Colorado United States Senator Peter H. Dominic and served as his southern Colorado administrative assistant; and WHEREAS, MaryAnne and her husband later moved to Colorado Springs, and while raising their children, she was deeply involved in the community's political arena, serving on staffing campaigns to elect local people to public office, including county commissioners, legislators, congressmen, and governors; and WHEREAS, Her commitment and dedication to Ronald Reagan led her to accept the co-chairmanship of his El Paso County Presidential Election Committee and took her to two national conventions as a member of his presidential election staff and Coordinator for Colorado's Youth for Reagan; and WHEREAS, The very same people whom Senator Tebedo helped elect to public office asked her to consider public office herself, which she did in 1982, after her youngest child graduated from high school; and WHEREAS, She was appointed to represent El Paso County as a Republican in the Colorado House of Representatives in 1982 and was reelected for three more terms through 1988; and WHEREAS, In 1988, Senator Tebedo was elected to serve in the Colorado Senate and served until the completion of her career on December 31, 2001; and WHEREAS, As a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, Senator Tebedo served as vice-chair of the Business Affairs and Labor committee and served on the Health, Environment, Welfare, and Institutions; Appropriations; and Finance committees; and WHEREAS, As a senator, Senator Tebedo served as chair of the Local Government and State, Veterans, and Military Affairs committees and vice-chair of the Transportation; Local Government; and State, Veterans, and Military Affairs committees, and she also served on the Business Affairs and Labor, Appropriations, and Education committees; and WHEREAS, Over thirty years ago, Senator Tebedo worked tirelessly, along with Costas Rombocos, the CEO of the Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, and a task force of industry leaders to rewrite and clarify the Colorado preneed funeral contracts law to optimally protect the state's residents and to provide a clear and concise law that could be uniformly observed by the state's death care providers; and WHEREAS, In addition to her tenure in the Colorado General Assembly, Senator Tebedo was a professional registered parliamentarian, beginning in 1979; and WHEREAS, Senator Tebedo was a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians, served as president of the Colorado Springs unit of the national association, and was a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Association of Parliamentarians; and WHEREAS, In 2000, Senator Tebedo completed studies at the University of Denver, University College, as a trained mediator and served as a guidelines member of the Colorado Council of Mediator Organizations, specializing in civic disputes; and WHEREAS, Senator Tebedo was the sole proprietor of Colorado Mediation, LLC, practicing mediation, facilitation, negotiation, and arbitration; now, therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

That, in the death of MaryAnne Tebedo, the people of the state of Colorado have lost a devoted public servant and an outstanding citizen, and that we, the members of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, pay tribute to MaryAnne Tebedo for years of dedicated public service and do hereby extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the members of her family.

Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Memorial be sent to Senator Tebedo's surviving children: Kevin, Ronald, and Thomas Tebedo and Christine Tebedo Ramirez.