Ballot Title Setting Board
2005-2006

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

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning campaign finance, and, in connection therewith, repealing existing constitutional provisions concerning campaign and political finance, including definitions, contribution limits, voluntary expenditure limits, and sanctions; authorizing the general assembly to enact definitions and contribution limits; requiring that all contributions to, expenditures made by, and obligations entered into by candidate committees, political parties, political committees, and issue committees be disclosed within forty-eight hours; requiring any person who spends one thousand dollars or more on independent expenditures or electioneering communications to report such expenditures within forty-eight hours; authorizing the general assembly to enact legislation prohibiting a business corporation, labor organization, or foreign citizen from contributing to a candidate committee while permitting a business corporation or labor organization to establish and make contributions to a political committee; superseding local regulations that are inconsistent with the measure; and requiring the secretary of state to create an online and electronic filing, search, and retrieval system to make campaign finance information accessible to the public.

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 campaign finance, and, in connection therewith, repealing existing constitutional provisions concerning campaign and political finance, including definitions, contribution limits, voluntary expenditure limits, and sanctions; authorizing the general assembly to enact definitions and contribution limits; requiring that all contributions to, expenditures made by, and obligations entered into by candidate committees, political parties, political committees, and issue committees be disclosed within forty-eight hours; requiring any person who spends one thousand dollars or more on independent expenditures or electioneering communications to report such expenditures within forty-eight hours; authorizing the general assembly to enact legislation prohibiting a business corporation, labor organization, or foreign citizen from contributing to a candidate committee while permitting a business corporation or labor organization to establish and make contributions to a political committee; superseding local regulations that are inconsistent with the measure; and requiring the secretary of state to create an online and electronic filing, search, and retrieval system to make campaign finance information accessible to the public?

Hearing May 17, 2006

At request of proponent, technical corrections allowed in text of measure. (In Section 1(1)(b), inserted a semicolon after the word “public”; in the first line of Section 2, changed “(1)(A)(I)” to “(1)(a)(I)”.)
Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 11:25 a.m.

* Unofficially captioned “Campaign Finance” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.