This amendment requires that ballot titles for measures reducing state tax revenue must clearly warn voters about the likely reduction in funding for specific programs.
Colorado2026Enacted
HB26-1084
Voter Transparency for Ballot Measures
Last scannedAug 24, 2026, 8:22 AM
In one sentence
This law requires officials to explain how certain ballot measures will affect the state's three largest program spending areas.
What it does
- Requires a description of likely effects on the top three state program expenditure areas in fiscal impact statements.
- Requires the same effect descriptions in entries for the ballot information booklet.
- Applies these rules to measures that increase state expenditures, except for small and administrative costs, without providing enough new money or spending cuts.
- Applies these rules to measures that require existing tax money to be spent in a specific way.
- Updates required language on ballot titles and booklets to match the law's wording.
Who it affects
- State agencies preparing fiscal impact statements for initiated measures
- Officials creating entries in the ballot information booklet
Limits and unknowns
- The text does not list the specific names of the three largest spending areas.
- The effective date is not provided in the source material.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
The act requires the fiscal impact statement and ballot information booklet entry for the following types of initiated measures to include a description of the measure's likely effect on the 3 largest areas of program expenditure of the state: A measure that increases state expenditures, except for de minimis and administrative expenditures, and that does not identify and provide for a sufficient source of revenue or sufficient reductions in state spending to account for the increased expenditures; and A measure that requires existing revenue sources to be reallocated and spent in a particular way. The act also modifies existing required language for ballot titles and the ballot information booklet for certain initiated measures to mirror the language used in the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Official activity
Bill history
- Governor SignedGovernor
- Sent to the GovernorGovernor
- Signed by the President of the SenateSenate
- Signed by the Speaker of the HouseHouse
- House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - RepassHouse
- Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - RepassSenate
- First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ AmendmentsConfComm
- House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference CommitteeHouse
- House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over DailyHouse
- Senate Third Reading Passed - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - FloorSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/16/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/13/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/10/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/09/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/08/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/07/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/06/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/02/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
- Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 04/01/2026 - No AmendmentsSenate
Changes
Amendments
4 stored
This amendment would require the official ballot title for any measure that cuts state taxes to clearly list how much money is lost and which three biggest government programs will lose funding.
This amendment would let supporters of certain tax or spending ballot measures submit a draft title early, which the Title Board must mostly keep unless it breaks legal rules.
This amendment changes the bill to require that ballot information for certain voter measures must describe how they will affect state spending instead of just identifying them.