Results for Proposed Initiative #282

Ballot Title Setting Board
2025-2026

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes allowing the state to keep and spend an amount of state revenue equal to one year of state public K-12 education funding as a voter-approved revenue change under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, and, in connection therewith, requiring the state to use a portion of the money to increase state funding for public K-12 education for ten years; and allowing the state to use the rest of the money for any purpose determined by the state legislature.     

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 allowing the state to keep and spend an amount of state revenue equal to one year of state public K-12 education funding as a voter-approved revenue change under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, and, in connection therewith, requiring the state to use a portion of the money to increase state funding for public K-12 education for ten years; and allowing the state to use the rest of the money for any purpose determined by the state legislature?

Hearing April 15, 2026

Single subject approved, draft title changed, title set (3-0).
Board members: Christy Chase, Theresa Conley, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 10:56 AM.

* Unofficially captioned "Retain and Spend K-12 Education Revenue" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.