Amendment 46 - Prohibition on Discrimination and Preferential Treatment by Colorado Governments
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a prohibition against discrimination by the state, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting; allowing exceptions to the prohibition when bona fide qualifications based on sex are reasonably necessary or when action is necessary to establish or maintain eligibility for federal funds; preserving the validity of court orders or consent decrees in effect at the time the measure becomes effective; defining "state" to include the state of Colorado, agencies or departments of the state, public institutions of higher education, political subdivisions, or governmental instrumentalities of or within the state; and making portions of the measure found invalid severable from the remainder of the measure.
Amendment 47 - Prohibition on Certain Conditions of Employment
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning participation in a labor organization as a condition of employment, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting an employer from requiring that a person be a member and pay any moneys to a labor organization or to any other third party in lieu of payment to a labor organization and creating a misdemeanor criminal penalty for a person who violates the provisions of the section.
Amendment 48 - Definition of Person
An amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term ?person? to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as ?person? is used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law.
Amendment 49 - Limitation on Public Payroll Deductions
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning deductions from governmental payroll systems, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting a governmental payroll system from taking a payroll deduction from any government employee except deductions required by federal law, tax withholdings, judicial liens and garnishments, deductions for individual or group health benefits or other insurance, deductions for pension or retirement plans or systems, or other savings or investment programs, and charitable deductions.
Amendment 50 - Limited Gaming
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning voter-approved revisions to limited gaming, and, in connection therewith, allowing the local voters in Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek to extend casino hours of operation, approved games to include roulette and craps or both, and maximum single bets up to $100; adjusting distributions to current gaming fund recipients for growth in gaming tax revenue due to voter-approved revisions in gaming; distributing 78% of the remaining gaming tax revenue from this amendment for student financial aid and classroom instruction at community colleges according to the proportion of their respective student enrollments, and 22% for local gaming impacts in Gilpin and Teller counties and the cities of Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek according to the proportion of increased tax revenue from voter-approved revisions in each city or county; and requiring any increase in gaming taxes from the levels imposed as of July 1, 2008 to be approved at a statewide election, if local voters in one or more cities have approved any revision to limited gaming.
Amendment 51 - State Sales Tax for Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilites
STATE TAXES SHALL BE INCREASED $186.1 MILLION ANNUALLY AFTER FULL IMPLEMENTATION BY AN AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES CONCERNING AN INCREASE IN THE STATE SALES AND USE TAX TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, INCREASING THE RATE OF THE STATE SALES AND USE TAX BEGINNING ON JULY 1, 2009, BY ONE-TENTH OF ONE PERCENT IN EACH OF THE NEXT TWO FISCAL YEARS; PERMITTING THE STATE TO RETAIN AND SPEND ALL REVENUES FROM THE NEW TAX, NOTWITHSTANDING THE STATE SPENDING LIMIT; REQUIRING AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE NET REVENUE FROM THE NEW TAX TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE NEWLY CREATED DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES LONG-TERM SERVICES CASH FUND; REQUIRING THE MONEY IN THE FUND TO BE USED TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; AND PROHIBITING REDUCTIONS IN THE LEVEL OF STATE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL EXISTING ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS MEASURE FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.
Amendment 52 - Severance Tax - Transportation
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the allocation of revenues from the state severance tax imposed on minerals and mineral fuels other than oil shale that are extracted in the state, and, in connection therewith, for fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2008, requiring half of the revenues to be credited to the local government severance tax fund and the remaining revenues to be credited first to the severance tax trust fund until an annually calculated limit is reached and then to a new Colorado transportation trust fund, which may be used only to fund the construction, maintenance, and supervision of public highways in the state, giving first priority to reducing congestion on the Interstate 70 corridor.
Amendment 53 - Liability of Business Entities and Their Executive Officials - Criminal Liability
An amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes extending the criminal liability of a business entity to its executive officials for the entity?s failure to perform a specific duty imposed by law, and, in connection therewith, conditioning an executive official?s liability upon his or her knowledge of the duty imposed by law and of the business entity?s failure to perform such duty; and allowing an executive official who discloses to the attorney general all facts known to the official concerning a business's criminal conduct to use that disclosure as an affirmative defense to criminal charges.
Amendment 54 - Restrictions on Campaign Contributions from Government Sole-Source Contractors
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning restrictions on campaign contributions, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the holder of contracts totaling $100,000 or more, as indexed for inflation, awarded by state or local governments without competitive bidding ("sole source government contracts"), including certain collective bargaining agreements, from making a contribution for the benefit of a political party or candidate for elective office during the term of the contracts and for 2 years thereafter; disqualifying a person who makes a contribution in a ballot issue election from entering into a sole source government contract related to the ballot issue; and imposing liability and penalties on contract holders, certain of their owners, officers and directors, and government officials for violations of the amendment.
Amendment 55 - Just Cause for Employee Discharge or Suspension
An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning cause for employee discharge or suspension, and, in connection therewith, requiring an employer to establish and document just cause for the discharge or suspension of a full-time employee; defining ?just cause? to mean specified types of employee misconduct and substandard job performance, the filing of bankruptcy by the employer, or documented economic circumstances that directly and adversely affect the employer; exempting from the just cause requirement business entities that employ fewer than twenty employees, nonprofit organizations that employ fewer than one thousand employees, governmental entities, and employees who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement that requires just cause for discharge or suspension; allowing an employee who believes he or she was discharged or suspended without just cause to file a civil action in state district court; allowing a court that finds an employee?s discharge or suspension to be in violation of this amendment to award reinstatement in the employee's former job, back wages, damages, or any combination thereof; and allowing the court to award attorneys fees to the prevailing party.
Amendment 56 - Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance
An amendment to the Colorado Constitution concerning health care coverage for employees, and, in connection therewith, requiring employers that regularly employ twenty or more employees to provide major medical health care coverage to their employees; excluding the state and its political subdivisions from the definition of "employer"; allowing an employer to provide such health care coverage either directly through a carrier, company, or organization or acting as a self-insurer, or indirectly by paying premiums to a health insurance authority to be created pursuant to this measure that will contract with health insurance carriers, companies, and organizations to provide coverage to employees; providing that employees shall not be required to pay more than twenty percent of the premium for such coverage for themselves and more than thirty percent of such coverage for the employees' dependents; financing the costs of administering the health insurance authority and health care coverage provided through the authority with premiums paid by employers to the authority and, if necessary, such revenue sources other than the state general fund as determined by the general assembly; directing the general assembly to enact such laws as are necessary to implement the measure; and setting the effective date of the measure to be no later than November 1, 2009.
Referendum L - Age Qualification for Serving in General Assembly
SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 4 OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE STATE OF COLORADO, CONCERNING THE ABILITY OF AN ELECTOR
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO WHO HAS ATTAINED THE AGE OF
TWENTY-ONE YEARS TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE COLORADO
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Referendum M - Elimination of Obsolete Constitutional Provisions Regarding Land Value Increase
SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
Referendum N - Elimination of Obsolete Constitutional Provisions Regarding Intoxicating Liquor
SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
THE REPEAL OF SECTION 5 OF ARTICLE XVIII AND ARTICLE XXII OF
THE STATE CONSTITUTION, CONCERNING THE ELIMINATION OF
OUTDATED OBSOLETE PROVISIONS OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
Referendum O - Initiative Petition Requirements
SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AN
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1 OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE STATE OF COLORADO, CONCERNING BALLOT INITIATIVES, AND,
IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, INCREASING THE NUMBER OF
SIGNATURES REQUIRED FOR A PROPOSED INITIATIVE TO AMEND THE
STATE CONSTITUTION; REDUCING THE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES
REQUIRED FOR A PROPOSED STATUTORY INITIATIVE; REQUIRING A
MINIMUM NUMBER OF SIGNATURES FOR A PROPOSED INITIATIVE TO
AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO BE GATHERED FROM RESIDENTS
OF EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN THE STATE; INCREASING THE
TIME ALLOWED TO GATHER SIGNATURES FOR A PROPOSED STATUTORY
INITIATIVE; MODIFYING THE REVIEW OF INITIATIVE PETITIONS;
ESTABLISHING A FILING DEADLINE FOR PROPOSED INITIATIVES TO
AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION; AND REQUIRING A TWO-THIRDS
VOTE OF ALL MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY TO AMEND, REPEAL, OR SUPERSEDE ANY LAW ENACTED BY
NOTE: This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative
officers and the Governor. To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill
or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
history, or the Session Laws.
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AN INITIATIVE FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS AFTER THE LAW BECOMES
EFFECTIVE.
