First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 
 LLS NO. R11-1040.01 Troy Bratton                 SCR11-003
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 Lambert,  Cadman, Renfroe, Scheffel, King K., Spence, Grantham, Harvey, King S., Kopp,
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                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Joshi, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
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               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 11-003 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution
            concerning a requirement that an elected public
            officer provide proof of citizenship before entering
            upon the duties of office.
       
       
                        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 requires any person elected to public
       office in the state of Colorado to provide proof of citizenship along with
       the oath of office.  If an elected officer fails to file proof of citizenship,
       the office is deemed vacant. 
       
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-eighth 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:
            Article XII of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
            Section 10a.  Elected public officers - proof of citizenship. 
       (1)  Every elected public officer shall, before entering upon the
       duties of office, provide proof of citizenship and file such proof
       of citizenship along with the oath of office as specified in section
       9 of this article.
            (2)  For purposes of this section, proof of citizenship
       includes:
            (a)  A United States passport or a legible photocopy of the
       pertinent pages of the passport, identifying the elected public
       officer and showing the passport number;
            (b)  The elected public officer's birth certificate or a
       legible photocopy of the birth certificate;
            (c)  The elected public officer's United States
       naturalization documentation or the number of the elected
       public officer's certificate of naturalization; except that an
       elected public officer who provides the number of the
       certificate of naturalization in lieu of the naturalization
       documentation shall not be deemed to have provided proof of
       citizenship until the office where the proof of citizenship is filed
       verifies the number with the United States citizenship and
       immigration services in the department of homeland security or
       its successor; or
            (d)  Any document or method of proof of citizenship
       established by the federal "Immigration Reform and Control
       Act of 1986", Pub.L. 99-603, as amended, or any successor law.
            (3)  If any elected person refuses or neglects to file proof
       of citizenship as directed by subsections (1) and (2) of this
       section, the office to which the person was elected shall be
       deemed vacant.
            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 the Colorado constitution concerning a requirement that an elected
       public officer provide proof of citizenship before entering upon the duties
       of office?"
            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.