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 regarding regulating energy consumption, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state, local governments, and special districts from adopting a law, ordinance, rule, resolution, or code that prohibits or discriminates against the connection or reconnection of an energy source for cooking, hot water systems, generators, cooling systems, or heating systems based on the type of energy to be delivered to an individual consumer and declaring energy consumption a matter of statewide, and not local, concern.

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 regarding regulating energy consumption, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state, local governments, and special districts from adopting a law, ordinance, rule, resolution, or code that prohibits or discriminates against the connection or reconnection of an energy source for cooking, hot water systems, generators, cooling systems, or heating systems based on the type of energy to be delivered to an individual consumer and declaring energy consumption a matter of statewide, and not local, concern?

Hearing October 4, 2023

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
The Board made a technical correction to the text of the initiative.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jerry Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 12:51 PM.

Rehearing October 18, 2023

Motion for Rehearing (Kirby): granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the title.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 10:19 AM.

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