Session:

House Member

Personal Information:
Home City: Laveen
Occupation: Managing Director, Education Non-Profit
Member Since: 2015
State Representative Reginald Bolding is an educator, community leader, and social entrepreneur. Bolding a first generation college student is an outstanding scholar in both education and justice studies.

After graduating at the top of his class from the University of Cincinnati, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and International Security, Reginald turned down a full-ride law school scholarship to become a Special Education teacher in South Phoenix to teach underserved youth.

Growing up in an underserved neighborhood himself, Bolding understood firsthand the obstacles and barriers faced by youth and families in these communities and wanted to help create change. He started a non-profit to provide students from low-income communities’ access to internships opportunities at top companies in Arizona.

At the age of twenty-eight, Bolding was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives representing downtown Phoenix, South Phoenix, Laveen, Tempe, and the Gila River Indian Community.

During his first term, Bolding was one of the most successful Democrats in the Arizona State Legislature. Representative Bolding introduced bills that would increase access to early child education, create tuition free higher education options, and worked to develop job training programs. Additionally, Bolding led a criminal justice reform agenda introducing bills that require body-worn cameras of law enforcement officers, sentencing reform, and reduced private prison contracts.

Representative Bolding serves on the House Education Committee and the Ways and Means Committee in the State Legislature.

In 2016, Representative Bolding helped launch Veterans Reach to Teach - an initiative to provide veterans an opportunity and pathway to serve as teachers in Arizona classrooms.

Bolding sits on the board of The Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Leading for Change, and The State of Black Arizona.

Representative Bolding and wife Cymone live in the South Mountain/Laveen community.

Sponsored Bills

Bill NumberSponsor TypeShort/NOW Title
HB2124CWQARF funding; state treasurer; transfers
HB2125CDHS; state food standards
HB2188Pemployment discrimination; prohibition.
HB2231CSTOs; administrative cost allocation
HB2232Ppublic school tax credit; increase
HB2234CSTO scholarships; student transfers
HB2235CSTO scholarships; means testing
HB2371Pminors; automatic firearms; prohibited
HB2376Ctraffic complaint quotas; prohibition
HB2434Cautomatic voter registration; driver licenses
HB2437Cearly voting locations; extended hours
HB2457Cappropriation; community information and referral
HB2458Csupplemental appropriation; foster care placement
HB2459Ctax credit; foster parents
HB2466Cschools; health information; website posting
HB2469Cnutrition assistance program; farmers' markets
HB2474Cpostsecondary institutions; sexual consent policies
HB2476Csex education programs; requirements
HB2486P*university admission requirements; foreign language
HB2487P*community colleges; tuition waivers
HB2511P*peace officers; camera requirement
HB2512P*law enforcement; deadly force; investigations
HB2517Pinternet crimes against children; fund
HB2520Pappropriation; grants; reading-intensive programs
HB2534Cballots; defects; notice; cure
HB2546Cindependent expenditures; corporations; funding disclosures.
HB2547Ccampaign finance disclosures; corporations; entities.
HB2548Cforeign nonprofit corporations; foreign LLCs.
HB2549Cindependent expenditures; corporations; unions; audit.
HB2552Cemergency contraception
HB2553Phuman trafficking victim; vacating conviction
(NOW: sex trafficking victim; vacating conviction)
HB2563Chealth facilities; substance abuse recovery
HB2571CDCS information; legislator discussion
HB2585Csecondary motor vehicle finance transactions
HB2591Csecurities registration; exemption; website operators.
HB2598Cadoption; married couple; preference.
HB2618Cpet dealers; dogs; prohibitions
HB2624Ccritical health information; emergency responders
HB2668P*results-based school-readiness contracts
HB2669P*high schools; academic growth awards
HCM2003Curging Congress; increase customs personnel
HCR2020Cratification; equal rights amendment
HCR2021Cwomen's reproductive rights; support
HCR2029Cpersons with disabilities; employment; support
HCR2031CCitizens United decision; repeal
HR2005Cdeath resolution; Officer Tyler Stewart
SCR1010CSenator Chester Crandell; death resolution
SCR1020CMayor John Driggs; death resolution