Backers of a proposal to raise the minimum wage turn in petition signatures to Colorado Secretary of State
DENVER, July 26, 2016 -- The backers of a proposal that would boost Colorado's minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 turned in petition signatures Monday to the Colorado Secretary of State in an effort to put the measure before voters in November.
To get on the ballot, proponents need to submit 98,492 valid voter signatures -- 5 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Colorado Secretary of State in the last general election. Supporters of the minimum-wage measure say they turned in 200,000 signatures, and they did it two weeks before the Aug. 8 deadline to submit petitions. The office now will conduct a 5-percent random sample of signatures to determine whether Initiative No. 101 meets the threshold to make the ballot.
Here's a look at some measures that are currently circulating and could be on the November ballot:
Proposed constitutional amendments
- Local government authority to regulate oil-and-gas development: No. 75
- Mandatory setback for oil/gas development: No. 78
- Requirements for constitutional amendments: No. 96
- New cigarette and tobacco taxes: No. 143
Proposed propositions
Two measures recently were pulled by their sponsors: Local Governance, No. 40, and Retention of Excess State Revenue, No. 117.
The only measure already confirmed on the ballot is Amendment 69 or Initiative 20, State Health Care System. Backers were informed last November they had collected enough valid signatures to put what is known as "ColoradoCare" before the voters.
