Ballot Title Setting Board
2013-2014

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the distribution of oil and gas revenues administered by the state, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting a local government that prohibits oil and gas production or development from receiving any oil and gas revenues administered by the state during the prohibition; providing for the proportional reduction of such oil and gas revenues distributed to a special district not having a prohibition based upon the extent the district’s boundaries overlap with the boundaries of a local government having such a prohibition; and requiring those revenues be redistributed to other local governments that allow oil and gas production or development.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the distribution of oil and gas revenues administered by the state, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting a local government that prohibits oil and gas production or development from receiving any oil and gas revenues administered by the state during the prohibition; providing for the proportional reduction of such oil and gas revenues distributed to a special district not having a prohibition based upon the extent the district’s boundaries overlap with the boundaries of a local government having such a prohibition; and requiring those revenues be redistributed to other local governments that allow oil and gas production or development?

Hearing April 16, 2014

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; title set.
Hearing adjourned 9:42 AM.

Hearing April 24, 2014

Motion for Rehearing denied except to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles.
Hearing adjourned 2:42 PM.

* Unofficially captioned “Distribution of Oil and Gas Revenue” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.