HB13-1100 Summary

• Reorganizes requirements for how Colorado's title board sets ballot titles for proposed initiated laws and constitutional amendments.

• Requires ballot titles to be written in plain language, use words generally understood by average readers, and be clear and coherent.

• Mandates title board consider public confusion from misleading titles and ensure titles correctly express the true intent of the proposed measure, are brief, unambiguous, in question form with clear yes/no voting effects, and do not conflict with previously filed ballot titles.

• Establishes plain language requirements for statewide referred measures ballot titles, with a presumption that referred measures adopted by the General Assembly comply with these standards.

• Effective 90 days after final adjournment of the 2013 legislative session (August 7, 2013), subject to potential referendum petition and November 2014 voter approval.