The winners and losers from Colorado’s fourteen statewide ballot measures
Article publisher:
Complete Colorado
Article date:
11 November 2024
Article category:
Colorado News
Medium
Article Body:
... Here is the complete breakdown of how the measures fared:
PASSED —
- Amendment G: Passed by 72.82 percent — This legislature-referred amendment expands the property tax exemption for veterans with a disability to include those with “individual unemployability” status.
- Amendment H: Passed by 72.93 percent — This legislature-referred amendment creates an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board...
- Amendment I: Passed by 69.02 percent— This legislature-referred amendment will make criminal suspects charged with first-degree murder ineligible for bail...
- Amendment J: Passed by 64.25 percent— This legislature-referred amendment removes a sentence from the state Constitution that says “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage...
- Amendment 79: Passed by 61.86 percent — This citizen-initiated amendment will enshrine a right to abortion in the Colorado Constitution, and remove a current constitutional provision that bans the use of public funds for abortions...
- Proposition JJ: Passed by 76.24 percent — This legislative initiative will remove Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) revenue restrictions on the tax money collected by the state from sports betting...
- Proposition KK: Passed by 54.39 percent— This legislative initiative creates a new tax of a 6.5% excise tax on firearms and ammunition manufacturing and sales to be imposed on firearms dealers, manufacturers, and ammunition vendors...
- Proposition 128: Passed by 62.17 percent— This citizens’ initiative will increase the minimum amount of time spent in jail for certain crimes before being eligible for parole...
- Proposition 129: PASSED by 52.46 percent— This citizens’ initiative will create the profession of veterinary professional associate...
- Proposition 130: Passed by 52.82 percent — This citizens’ initiative will create the “Peace Officer Training and Support Fund”...
FAILED —
- Amendment K: Failed by 55.17 percent— This legislature-referred amendment would have changed the deadlines for filing initiative and referendum petition signatures...
- Amendment 80: Failed by 51.60 percent— This citizen-initiated amendment would have guaranteed parents the right to choose which school model is best for their child...
- Proposition 127: Failed by 55.16 percent— This citizen’s initiative would have prohibited so-called “trophy hunting” of mountain lions, bobcats, or lynx, despite the practice already being illegal in Colorado...
- Proposition 131: Failed by 54.35 percent — This citizen initiative would have fundamentally changed the way elections are held in Colorado...
[see Ranked Choice Voting Disaster]