Ballot Title Setting Board
2015-2016

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

An amendment to the Colorado constitution establishing a right to assistance from a medical professional to achieve death through a medical protocol, and, in connection therewith, allowing a mentally competent adult to exercise the right or to enter into an agreement to exercise the right at a future time when the individual may no longer be mentally competent and the conditions specified in the agreement are met; and granting immunity from civil and criminal liability and professional discipline to any person who provides assistance to a person exercising the right.

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

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution establishing a right to assistance from a medical professional to achieve death through a medical protocol, and, in connection therewith, allowing a mentally competent adult to exercise the right or to enter into an agreement to exercise the right at a future time when the individual may no longer be mentally competent and the conditions specified in the agreement are met; and granting immunity from civil and criminal liability and professional discipline to any person who provides assistance to a person exercising the right?

Hearing April 6, 2016

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 12:10 PM.

Rehearing April 20, 2016

Motion for Rehearing denied except to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles.
Hearing adjourned 9:15 AM.

* Unofficially captioned “Medical Aid in Dying” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.