House Memorial 16-1005 Summary

• Diane Hoppe, former Colorado Representative from House District 65, died on February 27, 2016, at age 68 after serving eight years in the legislature beginning in 1999.

• Representative Hoppe focused primarily on water and agriculture issues, served on the Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources committee for all eight years, and became the first woman to chair that committee for four years.

• She sponsored the 2001 bill that created the Water Resources Legislation Review Committee and served on multiple water committees, chairing them five times during interim sessions.

• After leaving the legislature in 2006, Hoppe served on the South Platte Basin Roundtable and Colorado Water Conservation Board from 2012 to 2016, serving as board chair from 2015 to 2016.

• The House of Representatives honors Hoppe as a devoted public servant and extends sympathy to her family, with copies of the memorial to be sent to her sons Dan and John Hoppe of Broomfield and her brother John Rogers of Pocatello, Idaho.