Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 
 LLS NO. R10-1104.01 Ed DeCecco                  HCR10-1006
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 McNulty,  Acree, Bradford, Gardner B., Gardner C., Gerou, Kerr J., Lambert, May, Nikkel,
 Waller
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Brophy,  Penry, Scheffel, Harvey
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 Finance
 
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 10-1006 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to section 20 of article X of
            the constitution of the state of Colorado, concerning
            prior voter approval for a tax policy change directly
            causing a net tax revenue gain to any district.
       
       
                        Resolution Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and
       does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If
       this resolution passes third reading in the house of introduction, a
       resolution summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this
       resolution will be available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The concurrent resolution eliminates any exceptions to the
       constitutional requirement that there be voter approval in advance for a
       tax policy change directly causing a net tax revenue gain to the state or
       any local government.
       
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-seventh
       General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:
            SECTION 1.  At the next election at which such question may be
       submitted, there shall be submitted to the registered electors of the state
       of Colorado, for their approval or rejection, the following amendment to
       the constitution of the state of Colorado, to wit:
            Section 20 of article X of the constitution of the state of Colorado
       is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            Section 20.  The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.  (4.5)  Clarification
       of voter approval for a tax policy change.  There shall be no
       exceptions to the requirement that there be voter approval in
       advance for a tax policy change directly causing a net tax
       revenue gain to any district pursuant to subsection (4) of this
       section.  Such voter approval shall be required regardless of
       whether the revenue gain exceeds the spending limit set forth in
       subsection (7) of this section, whether the spending limit has
       been partially or wholly waived, or any other circumstance.
            SECTION 2.  Each elector voting at said election and desirous of
       voting for or against said amendment shall cast a vote as provided by law
       either "Yes" or "No" on the proposition:  "Shall there be an
       amendment to section 20 of article X of the constitution of the
       state of Colorado, concerning prior voter approval for a tax
       policy change directly causing a net tax revenue gain to any
       district?"
            SECTION 3.  The votes cast for the adoption or rejection of said
       amendment shall be canvassed and the result determined in the manner
       provided by law for the canvassing of votes for representatives in
       Congress, and if a majority of the electors voting on the question shall
       have voted "Yes", the said amendment shall become a part of the state
       constitution.