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 modifications to certain constitutionally mandated increases in funding for preschool through twelfth grade public education, and, in connection therewith, making such modifications only if voters approve a constitutional amendment in 2004 that requires state fiscal year spending to be less, as a percentage of the overall state economy, than it was in state fiscal year 1999-2000; allowing the general assembly to suspend any portion of the mandated annual funding increase above the mandated increase for inflation for each state fiscal year through state fiscal year 2010?11 if Colorado total state personal income grows by less than four and one-half percent between the two previous calendar years; repealing section 17 of article IX of the state constitution, which mandates annual funding increases, effective June 30, 2011, but delaying the date of repeal by one year for each fiscal year in which the general assembly enacts such a suspension; and specifying that moneys remaining in the state education fund upon such repeal are to be used only for currently authorized education-related purposes without being subject to any existing spending limitation.

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 modifications to certain constitutionally mandated increases in funding for preschool through twelfth grade public education, and, in connection therewith, making such modifications only if voters approve a constitutional amendment in 2004 that requires state fiscal year spending to be less, as a percentage of the overall state economy, than it was in state fiscal year 1999-2000; allowing the general assembly to suspend any portion of the mandated annual funding increase above the mandated increase for inflation for each state fiscal year through state fiscal year 2010?11 if Colorado total state personal income grows by less than four and one-half percent between the two previous calendar years; repealing section 17 of article IX of the state constitution, which mandates annual funding increases, effective June 30, 2011, but delaying the date of repeal by one year for each fiscal year in which the general assembly enacts such a suspension; and specifying that moneys remaining in the state education fund upon such repeal are to be used only for currently authorized education-related purposes without being subject to any existing spending limitation?

Hearing April 7, 2004

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 8:30 p.m.

Hearing April 21, 2004

Motion for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 5:35 p.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Education Funding – Contingent Repeal of Amendment 23” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.