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Colorado Amendment 59, Spending of Excess Funds on Education Initiative (2008)
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| Topic Education and State and local government budgets, spending, and finance |
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| Type Initiated constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment 59 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Colorado on November 4, 2008. It was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported spending excess funds collected by the state to be spent on public education. |
A “no” vote opposed spending excess funds collected by the state to be spent on public education. |
Election results
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Colorado Amendment 59 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 1,010,409 | 45.69% | ||
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1,201,220 | 54.31% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 59 was as follows:
| “ | Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution concerning the manner in which the state funds public education from preschool through the twelfth grade, and, in connection therewith, for the 2010-11 state fiscal year and each state fiscal year thereafter, requiring that any revenue that the state would otherwise be required to refund pursuant to the constitutional limit on state fiscal year spending be transferred instead to the state education fund; eliminating the requirement that, for the 2011-12 state fiscal year and each state fiscal year thereafter, the statewide base per pupil funding for public education from preschool through the twelfth grade and the total state funding for all categorical programs increase annually by at least the rate of inflation; creating a savings account in the state education fund; requiring that a portion of the state income tax revenue that is deposited in the state education fund be credited to the savings account in certain circumstances; requiring either a two-thirds majority vote of each house of the general assembly or, in any state fiscal year in which Colorado personal income grows less than six percent between the two previous calendar years, a simple majority vote of the general assembly to use the moneys in the savings account; establishing the purposes for which moneys in the savings account may be spent; establishing a maximum amount that may be in the savings account in any state fiscal year; and allowing the general assembly to transfer moneys from the general fund to the state education fund, so long as certain obligations for transportation funding are met? | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
In Colorado, proponents needed to collect a number of signatures for an initiated constitutional amendment.
See also
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Footnotes
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