Christine Watkins
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Christine F. Watkins is a Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing District 69. She was first elected in 2016. She ran unsuccessfully for the same seat in 2014.
Watkins served in the Utah House of Representatives, representing District 69 from 2009 to 2013. Following the 2012 general election, she left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party.
Watkins has worked as a teacher and elementary school principal. Watkins previously served as minority caucus leader.
Watkins earned her B.S. in elementary education from Utah State University. She went on to receive her M.Ed. in education administration from the University of Utah.
Former Member, Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee, Utah State House of Representatives
Former Member, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee, Utah State House of Representatives
Former Member, Rules Committee, Utah State House of Representatives
Minority Caucus Manager, Utah State House of Representatives
Vice Chair, Business, Economic Development and Labor Appropriations Subcommittee
Chair, Child Welfare Legislative Oversight Panel
Member, Education
Member, Education Interim
Chair, Native American Legislative Liaison
Member, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment
Member, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Interim Committee
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Greatly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Greatly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
8. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase
3. Corporate taxes
- Greatly Increase
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
10. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Undecided
11. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
12. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Utah governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Utah state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- No
4. Political Parties
- No
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- Yes
7. Should Utah participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Undecided
8. Should the governor be required to obtain legislative approval before entering an interstate agreement costing more than $50,000?
- Yes
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Support the death penalty in Utah.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- X
2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- No Answer
3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X
4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Utah to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in Utah's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Include gender identity in Utah's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
8. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
9. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- X
10. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X
11. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
12. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- X
3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- No Answer
4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
5. Support funding for improvements to Utah's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- No Answer
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- No
2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- No
4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Undecided
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Undecided
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Utah.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should Utah recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No
3. Should Utah provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- Yes
4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- No
5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- No
6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- No Answer
8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- No
9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- Undecided
10. Should Utah continue affirmative action programs?
- No
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- Yes
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- Yes
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- Undecided
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- 1. I represent people from four counties, my goal is to visit with them often. This will be need to be done on my dime.2. Continue funding for Highway 6. Much has been done but more needs to be done. Allocation from the Highway and Road Department funds.3. Increase funding for Public Education. More has to be given for young teachers to stay in the teaching field. Beginning teacher salaries are too low. Schools need more money for keeping technology current. This money would come from the General Funds.