Results for Proposed Initiative #301

Ballot Title Setting Board
2019-2020

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes requiring the oil and gas conservation commission, before adopting a rule, to publish regulatory impact findings, after allowing public comment, that specify the authority and need for the rule and whether it can be implemented and estimate certain impacts of the rule on: the oil and gas industry, including compliance costs; employment; state and local tax revenue; and oil and gas royalty payments.

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 requiring the oil and gas conservation commission, before adopting a rule, to publish regulatory impact findings, after allowing public comment, that specify the authority and need for the rule and whether it can be implemented and estimate certain impacts of the rule on: the oil and gas industry, including compliance costs; employment; state and local tax revenue; and oil and gas royalty payments?

Hearing April 15, 2020

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set. Hearing adjourned 4:08 PM.

Rehearing April 23, 2020

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles; denied in all other respects. Hearing adjourned 4:55 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Require Regulatory Impact Analysis for Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Rules" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.