Scott Renfroe

During the 2012 legislative session, Renfroe’s main focus was SB12-050. This legislation sought to ban red light cameras and photo radar at intersections. The measure has been adopted in 15 other states across the nation as well; however, Renfroe’s bill failed in the Senate Transportation Committee.

In 2011, Renfroe was elected to serve as the Republican Caucus Whip. He was also appointed to the Legislative Audit Committee, Capitol Development Committee, and acts as the ranking Republican member of the Senate Transportation and Education Committees.

Senator Renfroe was honored with the title of Taxpayer Champion after the 2011 legislative session for his consistent voting down of tax increases on the public. Based on his 90% scoring by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Renfroe tied with Senator Kevin Lundberg for the award.

On March 11, 2011, when debating a bill requiring a minimal amount of time in physical education classes, he suggested that schools are feminizing boys.

In 2010, Senator Renfroe and several fellow Republicans introduced a bill, SB10-096, calling for transparency of costs on utility bills. This bill would have required utility companies to list expenses on a customer’s bill, i.e. costs associated with providing the service, costs of gas storage, etc. SB10-096 was assigned to the Senate Committee on Local Government and Energy, where it later failed to pass and was postponed indefinitely.

Renfroe faced Democratic challenger Ken Storck in the 2010 election., and he defeated Storck with 65% of the vote.

For the 2009 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Renfroe sat on the Senate Transportation Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is the ranking Republican member.

In the 2008 session of the General Assembly, Renfroe served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Transportation Committee.

For the 2008 Colorado General Assembly, Renfroe announced plans to sponsor legislation to prioritize funding to assist those with developmental disabilities, to allow the Colorado Historical Society to use more energy efficient materials, and to establish uniform rules for drivers cited for DUI, equalizing sentencing rules for those given a summons and those arrested for drunk driving. Renfroe also sponsored a bill that was killed in committee that would have allowed citizens to sue the government over violations of the right to free exercise of religion.

In the 2007 session of the General Assembly, Renfroe served on the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Transportation Committee.

During the 2007 legislative session, Renfroe fulfilled a campaign promise to sponsor legislation banning almost all abortions and redefining pregnancy in state law to begin at conception. After intense lobbying by both pro-life and pro-choice groups, the measure was defeated along party lines in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

During the 2007 session, Renfroe, along with a dozen other Republican legislators, joined the State Legislators for Legal Immigration coalition, advocating for heightened border security and cutting government benefits to illegal aliens.

Renfroe faced Rep. Dale Hall for the Republican nomination in the right-leaning district; both sought to replace retiring Sen. Dave Owen Renfroe targeted Hall for, as a member of the legislature's Joint Budget Committee, being a vocal proponent of Colorado's Referendum C in 2005. The measure allowed the state to retain additional tax revenue, and Renfroe criticized the measure as unnecessary government spending. At the Republican party district assembly in April, Renfroe narrowly edged out Hall in delegate votes, earning the top spot on the primary ballot.

Renfroe is married; he and his wife, Pamela, met in high school and have five children: Olivia, Sylvia, Vivian, and twin sons Derek and Spencer. He was elected twice to the Eaton School District Board of Education, in 1997 and 2001. While on the Board of Education, he worked to adopt an abstinence-only sex education curriculum.

Born in Greeley, Colorado, Renfroe graduated from Eaton High School in 1985, where he played basketball and was quarterback of the high school football team. He started his college career on a baseball scholarship at Iowa State University, but ended up attending four different colleges within a span of four years, ultimately graduating from Colorado State University in 1989 with a degree in business administration.

On the 40th Anniversary of the 1970 Kent State shootings, Renfroe suggested that the Colorado National Guard should be called out on pro marijuana activists who were demonstrating near the Colorado capitol while the Colorado legislature debated medical marijuana legislation.

Scott Renfroe (born December 7, 1966) is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado State Senate as a Republican in 2006, Renfroe represented Senate District 13, which encompasses northern and eastern Weld County, including the city of Greeley.