First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly

LLS NO. R99­0845.01 Gregg Fraser

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Tebedo;

also REPRESENTATIVE McElhany.

STATE, VETERANS AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 99-003

CONCERNING THE SUBMISSION TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO OF AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1 (2) OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE AN ELECTION WITHIN WHICH AN INITIATIVE PETITION MUST BE FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM THREE MONTHS TO FOUR MONTHS.

Resolution Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.)

Increases the amount of time before an election within which an initiative petition must be filed with the secretary of state from 3 months to 4 months.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­second General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1.  At the next election at which such question may be submitted, there shall be submitted to 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 1 (2) of article V of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended to read:

Section 1.  General assembly ­ initiative and referendum. (2)  The first power hereby reserved by the people is the initiative, and signatures by registered electors in an amount equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of secretary of state at the previous general election shall be required to propose any measure by petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. Initiative petitions for state legislation and amendments to the constitution, in such form as may be prescribed pursuant to law, shall be addressed to and filed with the secretary of state at least three NO LATER THAN FOUR months before the general election at which they are to be voted upon.

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: "AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1 (2) OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE AN ELECTION WITHIN WHICH AN INITIATIVE PETITION MUST BE FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM THREE MONTHS TO FOUR MONTHS."

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.