Ballot Title Setting Board
2021-2022

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning the expansion of retail sale of alcohol beverages, and, in connection therewith, establishing a new fermented malt beverage and wine retailer license for off-site consumption to allow grocery stores, convenience stores, and other business establishments licensed to sell fermented malt beverages, such as beer, for off-site consumption to also sell wine; automatically converting such a fermented malt beverage retailer license to the new license; allowing fermented malt beverage and wine retailer licensees to conduct tastings if approved by the local licensing authority; allowing retail establishments, including restaurants and liquor stores, to deliver any alcohol beverages, they are licensed to sell, to a person 21 years of age or older through a third-party delivery service that has obtained a delivery service permit; applying the generally applicable minimum wage rates, if any, for employees or independent contractors performing alcohol delivery; and removing the limit on the percentage of gross sales revenues a licensee may derive from alcohol beverage deliveries.

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 expansion of retail sale of alcohol beverages, and, in connection therewith, establishing a new fermented malt beverage and wine retailer license for off-site consumption to allow grocery stores, convenience stores, and other business establishments licensed to sell fermented malt beverages, such as beer, for off-site consumption to also sell wine; automatically converting such a fermented malt beverage retailer license to the new license; allowing fermented malt beverage and wine retailer licensees to conduct tastings if approved by the local licensing authority; allowing retail establishments, including restaurants and liquor stores, to deliver any alcohol beverages, they are licensed to sell, to a person 21 years of age or older through a third-party delivery service that has obtained a delivery service permit; applying the generally applicable minimum wage rates, if any, for employees or independent contractors performing alcohol delivery; and removing the limit on the percentage of gross sales revenues a licensee may derive from alcohol beverage deliveries?

Hearing April 20, 2022

Single subject approved (2-1, Barry dissented); staff draft amended; title set.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeremiah Barry, Eric Olson
Hearing adjourned: 11:44 AM.

Rehearing April 29, 2022

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles. (2-1, Barry dissented)
Board members: Theresa Conley, Jeramiah Barry, David Powell
Hearing adjourned: 12:12 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "Sales and Delivery of Alcohol Beverages" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.