Colorado Public Trust Resources Amendment (2016)
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The Colorado Public Trust Resources Amendment did not make the 2016 ballot in Colorado as an initiated constitutional amendment.[1]
The measure would have created a public trust for the natural and environmental resources under public ownership, including clean air, clean water and the preservation of the environment and natural resources. It would have also required the state to conserve and maintain public trust resources by using the best science available to protect them against any substantial impairment, regardless of any prior federal, state or local approval.[2] The measure would have amended Article XVI of the Colorado Constitution by adding a section 9.[2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the board was as follows:[3]
| “ | Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning common ownership by all Coloradans of public trust resources, and, in connection therewith, defining public trust resources as clean air, clean water, and the preservation of the environment and natural resources; regardless of any prior federal, state, or local approval, requiring the state, as trustee, to conserve and maintain public trust resources by using the best science available to protect them against any substantial impairment, to seek natural resource damages from anyone who substantially impairs them and to use damages obtained to remediate the impairment; regardless of any prior federal, state, or local approval, allowing Colorado citizens to file enforcement actions in court; requiring anyone who is proposing an action or policy that might substantially impair public trust resources to prove that the action or policy is not harmful; and requiring referral for prosecution of any criminal offense involving the manipulation of data, reports, or scientific information in an attempt to use public trust resources for private profit?[4] | ” |
Constitutional changes
The measure would have amended Article XVI of the Colorado Constitution by adding a section 9 to it. The full text of the proposed changes can be read here.
Support
- Phillip Doe, primary proponent
- Barbera Mills-Bria, second proponent
Path to the ballot
Supporters would have had to gather at least 98,492 valid signatures by the state's prescribed deadline for the measure to appear on the ballot, but the deadline passed and the title expired.
Related measures
See also
- Colorado 2016 ballot measures
- 2016 ballot measures
- Colorado Legislature
- List of Colorado ballot measures
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Colorado Water Stewardship Project, "Public Trust Resources Proponents Prepare for 2016," accessed February 6, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Colorado Legislature, "2015-2016 #4 Public Trust Resources," accessed February 6, 2015
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "Results for Proposed Initiative #4, Ballot Title Setting Board 2015-2016," accessed February 6, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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