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 parole eligibility for an offender convicted of a violent crime, and, in connection therewith, requiring an offender who was convicted on or after January 1, 2023, of second degree murder; first degree assault; first degree kidnapping, unless the first degree kidnapping is a class 1 felony; sexual assault; first degree arson; first degree burglary; or aggravated robbery to serve eighty-five percent of the sentence imposed before being eligible for parole and requiring an offender convicted of any such crime on or after January 1, 2023, and who was previously convicted of two crimes of violence to serve the full sentence imposed before beginning to serve parole.

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 parole eligibility for an offender convicted of a violent crime, and, in connection therewith, requiring an offender who was convicted on or after January 1, 2023, of second degree murder; first degree assault; first degree kidnapping, unless the first degree kidnapping is a class 1 felony; sexual assault; first degree arson; first degree burglary; or aggravated robbery to serve eighty-five percent of the sentence imposed before being eligible for parole and requiring an offender convicted of any such crime on or after January 1, 2023, and who was previously convicted of two crimes of violence to serve the full sentence imposed before beginning to serve parole?

Hearing April 6, 2022

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
The Board made a technical correction to the text of the initiative.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, David Powell
Hearing adjourned 3:16 PM.

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