Ballot Title Setting Board
2011-2012

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

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning statewide ballot measures, and, in connection therewith, increasing the number of votes needed to pass a statutory tax increase or a constitutional amendment from a majority to at least sixty percent of the votes cast unless the measure only repeals all or a portion of a measure approved before 2013; requiring a minimum number of petition signatures for an initiated statutory tax increase or constitutional amendment to be gathered from voters who reside in each congressional district; and, for three years after a referred or initiated statutory law becomes effective, increasing the required vote of each house of the general assembly to change, repeal, or supersede the law from a majority to at least a sixty percent vote.

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 statewide ballot measures, and, in connection therewith, increasing the number of votes needed to pass a statutory tax increase or a constitutional amendment from a majority to at least sixty percent of the votes cast unless the measure only repeals all or a portion of a measure approved before 2013; requiring a minimum number of petition signatures for an initiated statutory tax increase or constitutional amendment to be gathered from voters who reside in each congressional district; and, for three years after a referred or initiated statutory law becomes effective, increasing the required vote of each house of the general assembly to change, repeal, or supersede the law from a majority to at least a sixty percent vote?

Hearing April 20, 2011

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 3:00 p.m.

Hearing May 6, 2011

Motion for Rehearing denied.
Hearing adjourned 3:04 PM

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