Colorado Federal Immigration Law Compliance Initiative (2018)

Colorado Federal Immigration Law Compliance Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Immigration
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Colorado Federal Immigration Law Compliance Initiative (#169) was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The Colorado Federal Immigration Law Compliance Initiative, also known as the “Public Safety Protection against Sanctuary Policies Act," would have added a new part 21 to article 33.5 of title 24 in the Colorado Revised Statutes. The measure would have prohibited Colorado state and local governments from "creating, enforcing, or administering policies, ordinances, or practices that obstruct, restrict, or discourage communication and cooperation" with federal law enforcement and federal immigration agencies. The measure would have enforced federal immigration law and prohibit sanctuary cities.

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot titles for the different versions of the initiative are below:

Initiative 169 ballot title

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning state and local government cooperation in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting state and local government from barring or restricting communication with federal immigration agencies regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual or the intergovernmental sharing or maintenance of records of such citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting state and local government from encouraging or facilitating the physical harboring of an individual not lawfully present in the United States; requiring each jurisdiction to annually notify its elected officials and employees of their duty to comply with federal immigration laws; and requiring annual compliance reporting?

Full text

• The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Colorado

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 2018 ballot:

• Signatures: 98,492 valid signatures were required.
• Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was August 6, 2018.

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

• United States Representative Thomas Tancredo and Floyd Trujillo submitted this initiative on April 6, 2018.
• A ballot title was issued for it on April 18, 2018.
• The initiative was approved for signature gathering on May 10, 2018.
• Proponents of the measure told Colorado Politics that they did not have enough time to mount a signature gathering campaign.

See also

2018 measures

• 2018 ballot measures
• Immigration on the ballot
• 2018 petition deadlines

Colorado

• Colorado ballot measures
• Colorado initiative laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls
• Ballot measure signature costs

External links

• Colorado Secretary of State: 2017-2018 Initiative Filings, Agendas & Result
• Initiative #169 Text