Ballot Title Setting Board
2003-2004

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the state civil service system, and, in connection therewith, modifying the merit principle for appointments and promotions, exempting certain positions from the system, authorizing the use of private contractors to provide state services, modifying the number of eligible applicants from which an appointment is to be made, modifying the residency requirement, modifying the standards for discipline, expanding the duration of temporary employment, specifying the rule?making authority of the state personnel board and the state personnel director, authorizing a modification to the veterans' preference calculation, and repealing the requirement that the state auditor's staff be included in the state personnel system.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the state civil service system, and, in connection therewith, modifying the merit principle for appointments and promotions, exempting certain positions from the system, authorizing the use of private contractors to provide state services, modifying the number of eligible applicants from which an appointment is to be made, modifying the residency requirement, modifying the standards for discipline, expanding the duration of temporary employment, specifying the rule?making authority of the state personnel board and the state personnel director, authorizing a modification to the veterans' preference calculation, and repealing the requirement that the state auditor's staff be included in the state personnel system?

Hearing April 7, 2004

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:48 p.m.

* Unofficially captioned “State Personnel System” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.