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 the expansion of retail sale of alcohol beverages, and, in connection therewith, establishing a new beer and wine off-premises retailer license to allow grocery stores, convenience stores, and other business establishments that derive at least twenty percent of gross annual sales revenues from the sale of food items to sell beer and wine for consumption off the licensed premises; allowing existing fermented malt beverage retailers licensed to sell beer for off-premises consumption to apply to the local licensing authority to convert the license to the new beer and wine off-premises retailer license; allowing beer and wine off-premises retailer licensees to conduct tastings on the licensed premises if approved by the local licensing authority; and allowing retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol beverages to deliver all types of alcohol beverages to a person 21 years of age or older through a third-party delivery service that has obtained a delivery service permit from the state licensing authority.

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 the expansion of retail sale of alcohol beverages, and, in connection therewith, establishing a new beer and wine off-premises retailer license to allow grocery stores, convenience stores, and other business establishments that derive at least twenty percent of gross annual sales revenues from the sale of food items to sell beer and wine for consumption off the licensed premises; allowing existing fermented malt beverage retailers licensed to sell beer for off-premises consumption to apply to the local licensing authority to convert the license to the new beer and wine off-premises retailer license; allowing beer and wine off-premises retailer licensees to conduct tastings on the licensed premises if approved by the local licensing authority; and allowing retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol beverages to deliver all types of alcohol beverages to a person 21 years of age or older through a third-party delivery service that has obtained a delivery service permit from the state licensing authority?

Hearing March 16, 2022

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Board members: Hilary Rudy, Jeremiah Barry, David Powell
Hearing adjourned 3:01 PM.

Rehearing April 6, 2022

Motion for Rehearing: granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles
(2-1, J. Barry dissented).
Board Members: Theresa Conley, David Powell, Jeremiah Barry
Hearing adjourned: 12:17 AM.

* Unofficially captioned "Sales and Delivery of Alcohol Beverages" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.