Representative  Juan C. Zapata

District 119
Republican

• View Original Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, offers support as the House brought it's version of the state budget to the floor Wednesday, March 31, 2010.
• View Original Seminole Indian Compact Review Committeee member Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, offers remarks in favor of the gambling compact bill, approved shortly after, Thursday, April 8, 2010. The bill, when fully ratified, guarantees the state $1 billion in gambling revenues from the Seminole Tribe for the next five years.
• View Original Rep. Ralph Poppell, R-Titusville, left, and Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, right, confer on the House floor Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
• View Original Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Panama City, questions a presenter during the Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations committee meeting, March 8, 2010.
• View Original Chairman of the Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, gestures while commenting on medicaid funding issues Monday, March 8, 2010, in Tallahassee, Florida.
• View Original Chairman of the Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Rep. Juan Zapata, R-Miami, center, guides committee action Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, in Tallahassee, Florida.

Member Information

Biographical Information

City of Residence:  Miami

Occupation:  Businessman/Consultant

Education:  Miami-Dade Community College, A.A.; Florida International University, B.S., Finance & International Business

Born:  December 9, 1966, Medellin, Colombia

Moved to Florida:  1977

Religious Affiliation:  Catholic

Recreational Interest:  history, reading, black & white photography, soccer

Committee Membership

Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations     Alternating Chair

Criminal & Civil Justice Appropriations Committee

Health & Family Services Policy Council

Health Care Services Policy Committee

Military & Local Affairs Policy Committee

Policy Council

Select Committee on Seminole Indian Compact Review

Legislative Service

Elected to the House in 2002, reelected subsequently

Other Public Service

Miami-Dade County Equal Opportunity Board

Miami-Dade Planning Advisory Board

West Kendall Community Council, Chairman

West Kendall Municipal Advisory Board, Chairman

Affiliations

Board of Hispanic Caucus Chairs, Chairman

Miami-Dade Legislative Delegation, Chairman

National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund, Chairman

National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), Labor and Economic Development Committee, Chairman

FIU Lifetime Alumni

Leadership Miami

S.A.L.A.D., Board Member

Highlights

Established reading programs through Read 2 Succeed

Established scholarship program through the Hispanic Caucus

Order of Dignity, Foreign Relations Committee, Colombian Congress of 2004

Florida International University Alumni Torch Award 2002

Hispanic Heritage Young Leadership Award 2001

First Colombian American elected to the Florida Legislature