AMENDMENT 81 - ✓ YES - Law Enforcement Reporting Requirements to Federal Authorities

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

If someone is charged with a violent crime and police cannot determine whether they are legally in this country, federal immigration authorities should be notified.*

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BALLOT QUESTION (Amendment 81):  Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution requiring law enforcement to notify the department of homeland security when a person is charged with either a violent crime or any crime the person has a prior felony conviction if law enforcement cannot determine that the person is lawfully present in the United States?

Text of Amendment 81 (Initiative 95) (PDF)

✓ YES on 81 - Cooperation makes Colorado safer.

AMENDMENT 82 - ✓ YES - Right to Natural Gas

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

You should have the right to use natural gas to heat your home, cook your food, or run your business. Government should not take that choice away.*

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BALLOT QUESTION (Amendment 82):  Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution creating new law granting the right for consumers to purchase natural gas for cooking or heating in homes or businesses and for distributors and utilities to sell natural gas to consumers?

Text of Amendment 82 (Initiative 177) (PDF)

✓ YES on 82 - Protect coumer energy choice.

AMENDMENT 83 - ✓ YES - Constitutional Right to Hunt and Fish

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

Amendment 83 protects the constitutional right to hunt and fish while preserving the state’s authority to regulate wildlife management for sound scientific conservation, public safety and the future of wildlife.*

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BALLOT QUESTION (Amendment 83):  Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution creating a constitutional right to hunt, fish, and harvest fish and wildlife by traditional methods, including all species of fish and wildlife managed by the state except non-game species, endangered species, or any species that is illegal to hunt under federal law, and, in connection therewith, establishing hunting and fishing as the preferred means of managing fish and wildlife populations; and preserving the right of the state to regulate hunting, fishing, and wildlife management if necessary for sound scientific wildlife conservation and management, public safety, or to preserve the future of hunting and fishing opportunities for all species?

Text of Amendment 83 (Initiative 302) (PDF)

✓ YES on 83 - Protect Colorado's outdoor heritage.

Amendment 84 - ✓ YES - Mail Ballot Voter Identification

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

Mail ballots should require voter identification. If information is missing or wrong, the voter will have a chance to fix it.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution requiring a voter to sign and include the last four digits of their social security number or their Colorado driver’s license or identification card number on the outside of their mail ballot for any federal or state election, and, in connection therewith, allowing the voter to correct missing or incorrect information, including with alternative forms of identification; and prohibiting a county clerk and recorder from counting the mail ballot unless the problem is fixed?

Text of Amendment 84 (Initiative 362) (PDF)

✓ YES on 84 - Strengthen election security.

AMENDMENT 85 - ✓ YES - Plain Language Ballot Questions

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

Ballot questions should be written in plain English. Voters should not need a lawyer to understand what they are voting on.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution concerning ballot question language, and, in connection therewith, requiring all state and local ballot questions to be written in plain language and at no more than an 8th grade reading level and prohibiting a state statute from requiring language that conflicts with these requirements in ballot questions for citizen-initiated measures?

Text of Amendment 85 (Initiative 234) (PDF)

✓ YES on #85 - Voters deserve understandable questions.

AMENDMENT 86 - ✓ YES - Congressional Redistricting

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

Politicians should not be able to redraw congressional districts in the middle of the decade just to help their own party.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution concerning congressional redistricting, and, in connection therewith, reenacting the current process for congressional redistricting in the Colorado Constitution and prohibiting modifications to a final map unless at least three public meetings are held, the modifications do not have the effect of dividing communities of interest or purposefully favoring one political party, and are approved by the congressional redistricting commission and the Colorado Supreme Court?

Text of Amendment 86 (Initiative 256) (PDF)

✓ YES on 86 - Keep redistricting independent.

AMENDMENT 87 - NO! - Graduated Income Tax

Constitutional Amendment: Requires 55% approval because it adds language to the state constitution.

This ends Colorado’s flat income tax, creates tax rates as high as 8.4 percent, and increases state taxes by an estimated $2.7 billion every year. Government already takes and spends enough.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: SHALL STATE TAXES BE INCREASED $2.7 BILLION ANNUALLY, IN ORDER TO INCREASE OR IMPROVE LEVELS OF PUBLIC SERVICES, INCLUDING K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, AND EARLY CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION SERVICES, BY AN AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND A CHANGE TO THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES REPEALING EXISTING LAW AND CREATING NEW LAW TO REPLACE THE UNIFORM STATE INCOME TAX RATE WITH A GRADUATED INCOME TAX STRUCTURE, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AMENDING THE TAXPAYER’S BILL OF RIGHTS TO ELIMINATE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR ALL TAXABLE NET INCOME TO BE TAXED AT ONE RATE WITH NO ADDED TAX ON INCOME; ESTABLISHING VARIOUS INCOME TAX RATES BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF TAXABLE INCOME EARNED BY INDIVIDUALS, ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND CORPORATIONS, WHILE MAINTAINING THE CURRENT 4.4% TAX ON INCOME FROM THE SALE OF A PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE, WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE ESTIMATED CHANGE IN INCOME TAXES OWED BY INDIVIDUALS AS IDENTIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE; AND AUTHORIZING THE STATE TO RETAIN AND SPEND ANY INCREASED REVENUE FROM THE NEW TAX STRUCTURE, AS A VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE, TO SUPPLEMENT CURRENT LEVELS OF FUNDING FOR K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, AND EARLY CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS?

Text of Amendment 87 (Initiative 195) (PDF)

NO! on 87 - REJECT a multibillion-dollar tax increase.

Proposition NN - NO! - State Public K-12 Education Funding

Passes with a majority vote.

They say it does not raise taxes. What it really does is let the state keep billions of dollars that could otherwise be returned to taxpayers through TABOR. The education promises focus on ten years, but the higher government spending limit is permanent.*

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Referred to the voters by the State Legislature.

BALLOT QUESTION: Shall state investment in K-12 public education increase two percent each year for the next ten years, with investments used to increase teacher pay, improve teacher retention, lower class sizes, and increase access to career and technical courses, without raising taxes but instead funded by raising the annual limit on state fiscal year spending only by the amount spent on public K-12 education as a voter-approved revenue change, and requiring an annual publicly released, independent audit to show how the new investments are spent?

Text of Senate Bill 26-135 (PDF)

NO! on NN - Protect TABOR and taxpayer refunds.

Proposition 132 - ✓ YES - Penalties for Fentanyl Crimes

Passes with a majority vote.

Fentanyl is killing people and destroying families. Dealers need stronger punishment, and people addicted to fentanyl need real treatment.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning criminal penalties for fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids, and, in connection therewith, increasing the felony classifications of drug-related crimes for distribution, manufacturing, dispensing, sale, or possession of fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids; creating mandated treatment for certain drug felony violations based on possession amount; and changing sentencing provisions to narrow or eliminate exemptions for crimes related to fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids and drug-related deaths?

Text of Proposition 132 (Initiative 85) (PDF)

✓ YES on 132 - Hold fentanyl dealers accountable.

Proposition 133 - ✓ YES - Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor

Passes with a majority vote.

Anyone who knowingly buys or sells sexual activity involving a child deserves life in prison.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes modifying existing law concerning human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude, and, in connection therewith, creating new law expanding human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude to include knowingly trading anything of monetary value to buy or sell sexual activity with a minor and increasing the penalty to be life in prison without parole or release?

Text of Proposition 133 (Initiative 108) (PDF)

✓ YES on XX - Protect children and punish traffickers.

Proposition 134 - ✓ YES - Male and Female Participation in School Sports

Passes with a majority vote.

Girls deserve fair sports. Female sports should be based on biological sex.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes creating new law restricting participation in all K-12 and collegiate school sports based on the participant’s sex as determined by certain aspects of their biological reproductive system, and, in connection therewith, requiring a school, institution of higher education, or athletic association to designate each school or intramural athletic team or sport as male, female, or coeducational; only allowing participants to compete on the team or sport of their designated sex or to compete on a coeducational team; creating an exception to allow a female to participate on a male-designated team or sport if there is no female team available; prohibiting a government entity, licensing or accrediting organization, or athletic association from entertaining a complaint, opening an investigation, or taking other adverse action against a school for maintaining separate teams or sports for females; and providing the commissioner of education with the authority to enforce the proposed initiative for K-12 school districts?

Text of Proposition 134 (Initiative 109) (PDF)

✓ YES on 134 - Protect fairness in girls' and women's sports.

Proposition 135 - ✓ YES - Prohibit Certain Surgeries on Minors

Passes with a majority vote.

Children cannot understand or consent to permanent, life changing surgery. Adults can make their own decisions. Children need protection.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes modifying existing law by prohibiting surgery on a minor for the purpose of altering the minor’s biological sex characteristics, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting any health-care professional or other person from knowingly performing, prescribing, administering, or providing any surgery to a minor for the purpose of altering the minor’s biological sex characteristics and prohibiting the use of state or federal funds, Medicaid reimbursement, or insurance coverage to pay for this type of surgery?

Text of Proposition 135 (Initiative 110) (PDF)

✓ YES on 135 - Protect children from irreversible procedures.

Proposition 136 - ✓ YES - Income Tax Rate Cap

Passes with a majority vote.

This caps Colorado’s income tax rate at 4.4 percent. Government can lower the tax rate, but it cannot raise it above 4.4 percent.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes capping the state income tax rate at 4.4% of federal taxable income for individuals and corporations?

Text of Proposition 136 (Initiative 232) (PDF)

✓ YES on 136 - Put a ceiling on Colorado income taxes.

Proposition 137 - NO! - Designate Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue for Conservation

Passes with a majority vote.

This lets the state keep about $175 million a year that could otherwise be returned through TABOR. It locks that money into government controlled conservation programs. In Colorado, “conservation” too often becomes restrictions, closed roads, and locked gates.*

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BALLOT QUESTION: Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes creating new law to increase water and land conservation funding without raising taxes, and, in connection therewith, through a voter-approved revenue change, allowing the state to keep and spend a portion of revenue from the state sales tax on sporting goods and equipment to conserve and protect Colorado’s water, land, and forests, prevent wildfires, support outdoor recreation training and activities, and reduce revenue spent on these conservation purposes if necessary to preserve funding for certain tax credits?

Text of Proposition 137 (Initiative 308) (PDF)

✓ YES on 137 - Support conservation without weakening TABOR.