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Colorado Additional State Education Funding Initiative (2022)
| Colorado Additional State Education Funding Initiative | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Colorado Additional State Education Funding Initiative was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
Measure design
The initiative would have directed the state legislature to allocate one-third of one percent of all revenue received from individual, corporation, estate, and trust federal taxable income to the state education fund and allowing the state to spend the money as a voter-approved revenue change.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:
| “ | Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning additional funding for preschool through twelfth-grade public education, and, in connection therewith, without raising the existing state income tax rate, requiring revenue collected by the state from one-third of one percent of all federal taxable income of every individual, estate, trust, and corporation, as modified by law, to be deposited in the state education fund; allowing the additional revenue to be from revenue that the state or a local school district is otherwise required to refund to taxpayers in years in which a refund is due; requiring the additional revenue to be used for attracting, retaining, and compensating teachers and student support professionals; specifying appropriations of the additional revenue do not supplant existing appropriations for public education; and requiring an annual report describing the allocation of the additional revenue?[2] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the initiative can be accessed here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Colorado, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office of Colorado secretary of state in the preceding general election. State law provides that petitioners have six months to collect signatures after the ballot language and title are finalized. State statutes require a completed signature petition to be filed three months and three weeks before the election at which the measure would appear on the ballot. The Constitution, however, states that the petition must be filed three months before the election at which the measure would appear. The secretary of state generally lists a date that is three months before the election as the filing deadline.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 124,632 valid signatures
- Deadline: August 8, 2022
The secretary of state is responsible for signature verification. Verification is conducted through a review of petitions regarding correct form and then a 5 percent random sampling verification. If the sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required valid signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If the sampling projects more than 110 percent of the required signatures, the initiative is certified. If less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Details about this initiative
- Lea Steed and Donald "DJ" Anderson filed the initiative. Proponents filed multiple versions of the initiative. Four of them, #62, #63, #64, and #65 were given ballot language on March 16, 2022. Version #63 was cleared for signature gathering on April 12, 2022, with petitions due on August 8, 2022.[1]
- Proponents of the measure announced on August 8 that they did not collect enough signatures for the measure.[3]
See also
External links
- Colorado Secretary of State: Initiative Filings, Agendas & Results
- Initiatives filed with the Legislative Council Staff
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Colorado Secretary of State, "Initiative Filings, Agendas & Results," accessed July 26, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Chalkbeat Colorado, "Colorado school funding measure won’t be on the ballot," accessed August 8, 2022
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