Colorado Amendment 12, Election and Legislative Measure Reform Initiative (1994)

Colorado Amendment 12
Election date November 8, 1994
Topic Ballot measure process and Campaign finance
Status Defeated
Type Initiated constitutional amendment	Origin Citizens

Colorado Amendment 12 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Colorado on November 8, 1994. It was defeated.

A “yes” vote supported requiring voter approval for changes in state and local officials' salaries, establishing campaign contribution limits, allowing for the recall of judges, establishing provisions regarding ballot measures, and placing limitations on the measures able to be passed by the General Assembly.

A “no” vote opposed requiring voter approval for changes in state and local officials' salaries, establishing campaign contribution limits, allowing for the recall of judges, establishing provisions regarding ballot measures, and placing limitations on the measures able to be passed by the General Assembly.

Election results

Colorado Amendment 12
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		246,723	22.53%
No		848,140	77.47%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 12 was as follows:

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An amendment to the Colorado Constitution to allow state elections on any subject in odd-numbered years; to allow increases in elected officials' compensation above 1988 levels only by voter approval or by inflation after 1994; to limit the future participation of elected officials in state and local government pension plans without voter approval; to enact a tax credit for individuals who make cash gifts to new campaign committees that pledge to take donations only from human beings; to limit contributions that political candidates, elected officials, or their campaign committees may accept from specified sources; to restrict public resources used in ballot issue campaigns; to require a mandatory fine for willful violations of the campaign contribution, public expenditure, and petition provisions; to extend petition powers to residents of all political jurisdictions; to allow judges to be recalled and bar recalled judges from any future judicial position; to limit petition ballot titles to 75 words and to revise other procedural and substantive petition provisions for the initiative, referendum, and recall; to limit the annual number of bills that governments may exclude from referendum by petition; to limit the reasons for invalidating petition signatures; to repeal changes in state petition laws or regulations adopted after 1988 unless voter-approved; to prevent elected officials from changing certain voter-approved laws; and to authorize individual, class action, or district suits to enforce the amendment.

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Path to the ballot

See also: Signature requirements for ballot measures in Colorado

In Colorado, proponents needed to collect a number of signatures for an initiated constitutional amendment.

See also

1994 Measures

• 1994 Measures
• Ballot measure process on the ballot
• Salaries of government officials on the ballot
• State legislative authority on the ballot
• Recall process on the ballot
• Campaign finance on the ballot
• 1994 legislative sessions

Colorado

• Colorado ballot measures
• Colorado ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Colorado Blue Book (1994)