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 judge or jury in a lawsuit involving a catastrophic injury or wrongful death unless the lawsuit is against a ski area operator, a seller or server of alcoholic beverages, or a governmental entity or employee, and, in connection therewith, eliminating 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 judge or jury in a lawsuit involving a catastrophic injury or wrongful death unless the lawsuit is against a ski area operator, a seller or server of alcoholic beverages, or a governmental entity or employee, and, in connection therewith, eliminating statutory limitations on economic, non-economic, and punitive monetary damages for catastrophic injury or wrongful death?

Hearing April 18, 2024

Single subject approved (2-1, Morrison); staff draft amended; titles set.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 11:17 AM.

Rehearing April 26, 2024

Motion for rehearing (Morgan) denied in its entirety (2-1, Morrison).
Board members: Theresa Conley, Kurt Morrison, Jeremiah Barry
Hearing adjourned: 11:03 AM.

* 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.