Colorado Gender Incongruence Notifications from Schools Initiative (2024)
| Colorado Gender Incongruence Notifications from Schools Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Colorado Gender Incongruence Notifications from Schools Initiative was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
This initiative would have required schools to notify parents or legal guardians if a school receives any information that a child is experiencing gender incongruence, defined by the measure as "a difference between a child’s biological sex and the child’s perceived or desired gender."[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for the initiative would have been as follows:[1]
| “ | Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes requiring a school representative to notify the parents or legal guardian of a child’s gender incongruence, and, in connection therewith, requiring any school representative including an administrator, teacher, contractor, volunteer, or any other person associated with the school to notify parents or a legal guardian within forty-eight hours of receiving any information that the child is experiencing gender incongruence; defining gender incongruence as a difference between a child’s biological sex and the child’s perceived or desired gender; and applying the notification requirement to any preschool, primary, or secondary school that receives state or federal funding? | ” |
Full text
The full text is available 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 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 124,238 valid signatures
- Deadline: August 5, 2024
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
- The initiative was filed by Lori Gimelshtey and Erin Lee on January 26, 2024. Ballot language was issued for the initiative on February 7, 2024.[1]
- Sponsors did not submit signatures by the deadline on August 5, 2024.[1]
See also
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Footnotes
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