BALLOT INITIATIVES - COLORADO

Matter of Title, Ballot Title and Submission Clause for 2019–2020 #3

Supreme Court of Colorado - June 17, 2019 - P.3d - 2019 WL 2495651 - 2019 CO 57

Proponents of initiative to repeal Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights petitioned for review of Title Board decision that initiative did not constitute single subject.

Initiative to repeal constitution’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in its entirety satisfied single-subject requirement, although Bill of Rights contained multiple subjects; initiative effectuated one and only one general objective or purpose and did not treat incongruous subjects in same measure, subject matter was necessarily and properly connected, nothing in initiative could be deemed to be surreptitious or hidden, and it would not pose risk of surprise or fraud on voters; disapproving In re Proposed Initiative 1996-4, 916 P.2d 528; In re Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause & Summary for 1999–2000 #104, 987 P.2d 249; In re Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause for Proposed Initiative 2001–02 #43, 46 P.3d 438; In re Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause for 2013–2014 #76, 333 P.3d 76.



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