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 provisions relating to required increases in state funding for preschool through twelfth?grade public education, and, in connection therewith, repealing the required additional one percentage point increase above inflation for the statewide base per pupil funding under the "Public School Finance Act of 1994", repealing the required increases in total state funding for all categorical programs, allowing the statutory definition of “statewide base per pupil funding” to be amended for purposes of the required inflationary increase in the statewide base per pupil funding, allowing an annual exception to the required inflationary increase in the statewide base per pupil funding when state fiscal year spending is not anticipated to increase by the maximum allowable amount, requiring revenues deposited in the state education fund to be subject to the state fiscal year spending limitation when state fiscal year spending does not increase by the maximum allowable amount, allowing the governor to transfer moneys from the state education fund to the general fund under specified circumstances involving revenue shortfalls, and repealing maintenance of effort funding requirements.

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 provisions relating to required increases in state funding for preschool through twelfth?grade public education, and, in connection therewith, repealing the required additional one percentage point increase above inflation for the statewide base per pupil funding under the "Public School Finance Act of 1994", repealing the required increases in total state funding for all categorical programs, allowing the statutory definition of “statewide base per pupil funding” to be amended for purposes of the required inflationary increase in the statewide base per pupil funding, allowing an annual exception to the required inflationary increase in the statewide base per pupil funding when state fiscal year spending is not anticipated to increase by the maximum allowable amount, requiring revenues deposited in the state education fund to be subject to the state fiscal year spending limitation when state fiscal year spending does not increase by the maximum allowable amount, allowing the governor to transfer moneys from the state education fund to the general fund under specified circumstances involving revenue shortfalls, and repealing maintenance of effort funding requirements?

Hearing May 5, 2004

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 3:45 p.m.

Hearing May 19, 2004

Motion for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 10:30 a.m.

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