Ballot Title Setting Board
2015-2016

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

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning accountability of public officers, and, in connection therewith, specifying recall and successor election procedures for state and local elected officers; requiring retention elections every four years for all state and local judicial officers; defining future eligibility for elected office for officers who do or do not defeat recall; making judicial officers defeated for retention ineligible for judicial office for ten years; and prohibiting identification, reporting, or limiting of donations to recall campaigns and payments to recall petition circulators.

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 accountability of public officers, and, in connection therewith, specifying recall and successor election procedures for state and local elected officers; requiring retention elections every four years for all state and local judicial officers; defining future eligibility for elected office for officers who do or do not defeat recall; making judicial officers defeated for retention ineligible for judicial office for ten years; and prohibiting identification, reporting, or limiting of donations to recall campaigns and payments to recall petition circulators?

Hearing September 16, 2015

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:09 PM.

Rehearing October 7, 2015

Motion for rehearing granted.
Title setting denied on the basis that the measure does not constitute a single subject.
Hearing adjourned 2:15 PM.

* Unofficially captioned “Public Accountability of Officers” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.