Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 
 LLS NO. R10-1043.01 Esther van Mourik            SCR10-006
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
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                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
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 Senate Committees
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               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 10-006 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to section 17 (1) of article IX
            of the constitution of the state of Colorado,
            concerning the rate of growth for public education
            funding when the rate of inflation is five percent or
            greater.
       
       
                        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 allows the general assembly the
       discretion to set the rate of growth for public education funding when the
       rate of inflation is 5% or greater.
       
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives 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 17 (1) of article IX of the constitution of the state of
       Colorado is amended to read:
            Section 17.  Education - Funding.  (1)  Purpose.  In state fiscal
       year 2001-2002 through state fiscal year 2010-2011, the statewide base
       per pupil funding, as defined by the Public School Finance Act of 1994,
       article 54 of title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes, on the effective date of
       this section, for public education from preschool through the twelfth
       grade and total state funding for all categorical programs shall grow
       annually at least by the rate of inflation plus an additional one percentage
       point.  In state fiscal year 2011-2012, and each fiscal year thereafter, the
       statewide base per pupil funding for public education from preschool
       through the twelfth grade and total state funding for all categorical
       programs shall grow annually at a rate set by the general assembly that is
       at least equal to the rate of inflation; except that, if the rate of
       inflation is five percent or greater, the general assembly shall
       have the discretion to set the rate of growth for such fiscal
       year at five percent or greater.
            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 17 (1) of article IX of the constitution of
       the state of Colorado, concerning the rate of growth for public
       education funding when the rate of inflation is five percent or
       greater?"
            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.