Ballot Title Setting Board
2025-2026

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

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, at no more than an 8th grade reading level, and in 100 words or fewer and prohibiting a state statute from requiring language that conflicts with these requirements in ballot questions for citizen-initiated measures.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

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, at no more than an 8th grade reading level, and in 100 words or fewer and prohibiting a state statute from requiring language that conflicts with these requirements in ballot questions for citizen-initiated measures?

Hearing March 4, 2026

Single subject approved (3-0); staff draft amended; titles set.
The Board determined that the proposed initiative requires the addition of language to the Colorado Constitution. The requirement for approval by fifty-five percent of the votes cast applies to this initiative.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Christy Chase, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 1:40 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Ballot Question Word Cap and Plain Language Requirement" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.