Colorado Referendum A, Approval of Constitutional Amendments Amendment (1996)

Colorado Referendum A
Election date November 5, 1996
Topic Constitutional wording changes
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Colorado Referendum A was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Colorado on November 5, 1996. It was defeated.

A “yes” vote supported increasing the percentage of votes needed to approve an amendment to the state constitution from 50% to 60% and establishing that constitutional amendments may only be submitted to electors through a general election.

A “no” vote opposed increasing the percentage of votes needed to approve an amendment to the state constitution from 50% to 60% and establishing that constitutional amendments may only be submitted to electors through a general election.

Election results

Colorado Referendum A
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		544,543	40.89%
No		787,134	59.11%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Referendum A was as follows:

“

An amendment to articles V and XIX of the constitution of the state of Colorado, concerning ballot measures, and, in connection therewith, requiring voter approval of proposed constitutional amendments by sixty percent of the votes cast thereon, permitting, until January 1, 2003, a simple majority of votes to approve amendments to amend or repeal any provision that was previously adopted with less than sixty percent of the votes cast thereon, prohibiting the General Assembly from amending or repealing any law enacted by the initiative within four years of adoption unless approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the General Assembly, and requiring that initiated and referred measures to amend the constitution be submitted to the electors at a general election and not at an election held in an odd-numbered year.

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Colorado Constitution

A two-thirds vote was needed in each chamber of the Colorado State Legislature to refer the constitutional amendment to the ballot for voter consideration.

See also

1996 Measures

• 1996 Measures
• Constitutional wording changes on the ballot
• 1996 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 (1996)