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 the requirements to increase 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, and 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.

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 the requirements to increase 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, and 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?

Hearing May 5, 2004

Single subject approved; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 4:58 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 10:49 a.m.

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