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 reallocation of net lottery proceeds for certain educational purposes, and, in connection therewith, allocating to a new education trust fund one-half of the net proceeds from state-supervised lottery programs currently allocated to the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund, the Conservation Trust Fund, and the Division of Parks and Recreation (fifty percent of which will be used for financial assistance to new and existing resident post-secondary students, twenty-five percent of which will be used to finance capital outlay projects for public primary and secondary educational facilities, and twenty-five percent of which will be used to finance after-school programs and early learning assistance programs); and specifying that moneys from the education trust fund shall not be used to supplant existing resources available to public entities.

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 reallocation of net lottery proceeds for certain educational purposes, and, in connection therewith, allocating to a new education trust fund one-half of the net proceeds from state-supervised lottery programs currently allocated to the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund, the Conservation Trust Fund, and the Division of Parks and Recreation (fifty percent of which will be used for financial assistance to new and existing resident post-secondary students, twenty-five percent of which will be used to finance capital outlay projects for public primary and secondary educational facilities, and twenty-five percent of which will be used to finance after-school programs and early learning assistance programs); and specifying that moneys from the education trust fund shall not be used to supplant existing resources available to public entities?

Hearing May 19, 2004

Title board jurisdiction to set titles under CRS 1-40-105 (2) approved; title board jurisdiction to set titles under CRS 1-40-105 (4) approved; single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 12:54 p.m.

Hearing May 28, 2004

Motion for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 9:04 a.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Allocation of Lottery Proceeds” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.