CO HB1169

State and local public bodies cannot adopt policies, positions, resolutions, rules, or regulations by secret ballot unless otherwise authorized by law.

Public bodies may use secret ballots to vote on electing leadership positions, with the outcome recorded in meeting minutes in accordance with open meetings law requirements.

Secret ballots may be used by search committees of public bodies to elect leadership, provided the vote results are recorded contemporaneously in the body's minutes.

Board of education secret ballot authority is preserved under section 22-32-108(6), C.R.S., and remains unaffected by this clarification.

"Secret ballot" is defined as a vote cast in a way that withholds the identity of the voter or the position taken from the public.