Ballot Title Setting Board
2009-2010

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

An amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes to authorize civil unions, and, in connection therewith, extending to same-sex partners in a civil union all the benefits, protections, and responsibilities that are granted by Colorado law to spouses in a marriage, providing the criteria for entering into a civil union and the conditions for the issuance of a civil union license, providing the conditions for the dissolution of a civil union, making provisions for implementation of the act, and providing that a civil union is not a marriage.

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

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes to authorize civil unions, and, in connection therewith, extending to same-sex partners in a civil union all the benefits, protections, and responsibilities that are granted by Colorado law to spouses in a marriage, providing the criteria for entering into a civil union and the conditions for the issuance of a civil union license, providing the conditions for the dissolution of a civil union, making provisions for implementation of the act, and providing that a civil union is not a marriage?

Hearing June 3, 2009

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 1:52 p.m.

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