Ballot Title Setting Board
2021-2022

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning initiative and referendum petitions, and, in connection therewith, establishing an alternative petition process that when used would allow petitioning of all Colorado governments; change requirements, procedures, and deadlines for: circulating petitions and qualifying petitions for the ballot, protesting petitions, including changing the venue and accelerating the protest process, and informing voters of petition contents, including referring voters to pro and con websites; limit petition titles to 60 words; limit the number of bills that the general assembly may exempt from possible voter review; allow laws enacted by initiative to be changed only by another initiative; and grant anyone standing to sue for any issue in this statute.

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

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning initiative and referendum petitions, and, in connection therewith, establishing an alternative petition process that when used would allow petitioning of all Colorado governments; change requirements, procedures, and deadlines for: circulating petitions and qualifying petitions for the ballot, protesting petitions, including changing the venue and accelerating the protest process, and informing voters of petition contents, including referring voters to pro and con websites; limit petition titles to 60 words; limit the number of bills that the general assembly may exempt from possible voter review; allow laws enacted by initiative to be changed only by another initiative; and grant anyone standing to sue for any issue in this statute?

Hearing February 3, 2021

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 11:40 AM.

Rehearing February 17, 2021

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles.
Hearing adjourned 2:36 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Petitions" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.