On Aug.31, 2016, State Senator Pat Steadman was honored by the University of Colorado Cancer Center (CU) when it named its board room the ﾓState Senator Pat Steadman Board Roomﾔ to honor the Joint Budget Committee member who sponsored legislation to direct the first-ever Colorado appropriation for cancer research to CU. Steadman, who lost his partner to cancer, was a champion of the cancer research at Anschutz during his tenure in the State Senate.