Ballot Title Setting Board
2005-2006

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the prohibition of nuclear weapons, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the location of nuclear weapons within Colorado, declaring Colorado to be a nuclear weapons free zone, and making it a felony punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of thirty years in a maximum security prison before probation or parole for anyone elected from Colorado to vote in favor of nuclear weapons research, testing, or maintenance.

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 prohibition of nuclear weapons, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the location of nuclear weapons within Colorado, declaring Colorado to be a nuclear weapons free zone, and making it a felony punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of thirty years in a maximum security prison before probation or parole for anyone elected from Colorado to vote in favor of nuclear weapons research, testing, or maintenance?

Hearing December 21, 2005

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:47 p.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons in Colorado” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.