Table of Contents

• Initiative process guidelines
  • Preparation and drafting
  • Review and comment meeting
  • Opportunity to amend proposal
  • Filing with the Secretary of State
  • Ballot title & Title Board hearing
• Ballot title requirements
  • Single-subject requirement
• Title board hearing
  • Responsibilities of the designated representatives
  • Motion for rehearing
  • Filing an appeal with the Colorado Supreme Court
• Guidelines & requirements for petitions
  • Preparing petition sections for circulation
  • Petition format
• Petition entities
  • License requirement
  • Application for license
  • Denial of a license
  • Revocation of license
  • Complaint, hearing & judgment
  • Application for reinstatement of license
  • Decision on applications for new or reinstated license
  • Registration requirements
  • Circulation of petition: gathering signatures
  • Training for petition entity representatives & petition circulators
• Reporting requirement
• Filing the petition for verification of signatures
  • Filing a report of expenditures related to petition circulation
  • Complaint by a registered elector
• Statement of sufficiency or insufficiency
  • Public access to filed petitions
  • Protesting the Secretary of State's determination
  • Placement on the ballot
  • Withdrawal of an initiative petition
  • Withdrawing as a designated representative
• Appendix
  • Glossary of common terms
  • Procedures regarding petition format approval - statewide initiatives
    • General process & timeline
  • Laws and rules pertaining to initiatives
  • Online resources
  • Colorado Secretary of State contact information