Colorado Single-Subject Act (1994)
From Ballotpedia
The Single-Subject Act, also known as Referendum A, was placed on the November 1994 ballot by the Colorado State Legislature via a legislative referral.
Colorado's voters approved the measure, with 65.7% in favor.
The language on the ballot said:
"The proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution would:
- Require that proposals initiated by the people and referred by the General Assembly be confined to a single subject which shall be clearly expressed in the title;
- Place procedural requirements in the constitution relative to the setting of ballot titles and for revising and changing the proposal (if the official or officials responsible for fixing the title determine that more than one subject is contained in a proposal);
- Provide that any subject contained in an initiated or referred measure, which subject is not expressed in the title of the measure, shall be void to the extent that it is not expressed in the title; and
- State that the revision and resubmission procedures shall not extend filing deadlines for the measure."
The Act was later, unsuccessfully, challenged in the case of Campbell v. Buckley.
