Ballot Title Setting Board
2025-2026

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

An amendment to the Colorado Constitution prohibiting utilities from raising utility bill rates of existing customers to pay for any costs associated with extending a natural gas pipeline to serve new customers or later removing or retiring the extended pipeline.

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 prohibiting utilities from raising utility bill rates of existing customers to pay for any costs associated with extending a natural gas pipeline to serve new customers or later removing or retiring the extended pipeline?

Hearing April 15, 2026

Single subject approved; draft title changed; 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: Christy Chase, Theresa Conley, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 12:17 PM.

Rehearing April 23, 2026

Motions for rehearing (Granger/West; Leighty) denied in their entirety (2-1, Morrison).
Board members: Christy Chase, Theresa Conley, Kurt Morrison
Hearing adjourned 12:03 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Cost of Natural Gas Pipeline Extensions" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.