Ballot Title Setting Board
2023-2024

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes allowing a person to recover the total amount of monetary damages awarded by a jury or judge in a lawsuit involving catastrophic injury or wrongful death unless the lawsuit is against a ski area, server of alcohol beverages, or the State of Colorado, and, in connection therewith, eliminating the statutory limitations on economic, non-economic, and punitive monetary damages for catastrophic injury or wrongful death.

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 allowing a person to recover the total amount of monetary damages awarded by a jury or judge in a lawsuit involving catastrophic injury or wrongful death unless the lawsuit is against a ski area, server of alcohol beverages, or the State of Colorado, and, in connection therewith, eliminating the statutory limitations on economic, non-economic, and punitive monetary damages for catastrophic injury or wrongful death?

Hearing March 6, 2024

Single subject approved (2-1, Morrison); staff draft amended; titles set.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 12:59 PM.

Rehearing March 20, 2024

Motion for rehearing was granted only to the extent the Board made changes to the title (2-1, Morrison).
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 8:43 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Damages Involving Catastrophic Injury or Wrongful Death" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.