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 the provisions of section 17 of article IX of the state constitution relating to mandated annual funding increases, effective June 30, 2011; delaying the date of repeal for each year in which the general assembly enacts such a suspension; requiring payment of a suspended funding increase in a specified fiscal year; 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 the provisions of section 17 of article IX of the state constitution relating to mandated annual funding increases, effective June 30, 2011; delaying the date of repeal for each year in which the general assembly enacts such a suspension; requiring payment of a suspended funding increase in a specified fiscal year; 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 21, 2004

At the request of proponents, technical correction allowed in text of measure. (In section 17, subsection 6 (c), removed the word “the” after “required”.)
Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 6:42 p.m.

Hearing May 5, 2004

Motion to Strike Motion for Rehearing denied.
Motion for Rehearing denied.
Hearing adjourned 6:08 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.