Colorado Amendment 51, Sales Tax Increase for People with Developmental Disabilities Initiative (2008)
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| Topic Public assistance programs and Taxes |
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| Type Initiated state statute |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment 51 was on the ballot as an initiated state statute in Colorado on November 4, 2008. It was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported increasing the state sales tax and using funds from the sales tax increase to fund services for people with developmental disabilities. |
A “no” vote opposed increasing the state sales tax and using funds from the sales tax increase to fund services for people with developmental disabilities. |
Election results
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Colorado Amendment 51 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 853,211 | 37.63% | ||
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1,414,065 | 62.37% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 51 was as follows:
| “ | Shall state taxes be increased $186.1 million annually after full implementation by an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning an increase in the state sales and use tax to provide funding for long-term services for persons with developmental disabilities, and, in connection therewith, increasing the rate of the state sales and use tax beginning on July 1, 2009, by one-tenth of one percent in each of the next two fiscal years; permitting the state to retain and spend all revenues from the new tax, notwithstanding the state spending limit; requiring an amount equal to the net revenue from the new tax to be deposited in the newly created developmental disabilities long-term services cash fund; requiring the money in the fund to be used to provide long-term services for persons with developmental disabilities; and prohibiting reductions in the level of state appropriations in the annual general appropriation bill existing on the effective date of this measure for long-term services for persons with developmental disabilities? | ” |
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 state statute.
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Footnotes
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