Ballot Title Setting Board
2015-2016

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

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.

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 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?

Hearing December 17, 2014

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 1:45 PM.

Rehearing January 7, 2015

Motion for rehearing denied except to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles.
Hearing adjourned 2:25 PM.

* Unofficially captioned “Public Trust Resources” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.