Specifies that a person who is not satisfied with a decision of the ballot title board with respect to whether an initiative petition contains a single subject may file a motion for rehearing. Extends the right to supreme court appeal of a ballot title board decision to any person presenting an initiative petition for which a motion for rehearing is filed, any registered elector who filed a motion for rehearing, and any other registered elector who appeared before the ballot title board in support of or in opposition to a motion for rehearing who is not satisfied with the ruling of the board upon the motion.
Modifies the information provided in the warning portion of an initiative or referendum petition. Requires the ballot information booklet to include an estimate of the measure's fiscal impact, taking into account information from specified sources, if it appears that the measure has a significant impact on the state or any of its political subdivisions.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1097 Voter registration challenges - deadline for filing challenge - deadline for hearing. Changes the deadline for registered electors who challenge the registration of another person to file a written challenge and supporting evidence with the county clerk and recorder from 45 days to 60 days prior to the election. Expands the time period within which the county clerk and recorder must conduct a hearing on such challenges from 15 days to 30 days after the filing of the challenge.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1100 Election expenses - state ballot measures - state reimbursement to counties. Requires that the state reimburse a county for election costs that are directly attributable to conducting an election in an odd-numbered year in which the only item on the county ballot is a state ballot issue.
For any other odd- or even-numbered year election in which a state ballot issue or state ballot question is on the ballot of a particular county, requires the state to reimburse that county for the cost of the duties performed by the county clerk and recorder that relate to conducting the election on the state ballot issue or ballot question at the following rates:
APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1148 County election precincts - uniform numbering system. Creates a system to be used by county clerks and recorders for numbering election precincts established for all general, primary, and congressional vacancy elections. Delays implementation of such numbering system until after completion of the reapportionment of the senate and house districts required by the Colorado constitution after the 2000 federal census, but establishes July 1, 2002, as the deadline for implementation of the numbering system. Requires county clerks and recorders to complete any precinct number changes necessitated by the numbering system and to report such number changes to the secretary of state within 10 days after the changes have been effected.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1194 Fair Campaign Practices Act - contribution limits - disclosure - internet access to reports - enforcement - sanctions. Establishes limits under the "Fair Campaign Practices Act" (the "FCPA") on the combined total of contributions and contributions in kind that:
Adds district attorneys to those candidates that are subject to contribution limits.
Increases the combined total of contributions and contributions in kind that a political party may accept annually. Prohibits contributions from foreign persons, governments, and corporations to political parties and political committees.
Limits the amount that a candidate committee may contribute to a candidate committee of the same candidate that is established for a different office. Prohibits acceptance of contributions by a state candidate's candidate committee from a candidate committee of the same candidate that was established for a public office other than a state office. Prohibits a candidate committee from accepting contributions from a federal candidate committee of the same candidate.
Requires future adjustments to such contribution limits. Requires a candidate who receives a contribution in excess of the limits to remit the excess to the contributor.
Repeals the following prohibitions and limitations:
Modifies the definition of "contribution" to include the value of contributions for which the contributor receives an item of compensation or consideration that is in excess of the compensation or consideration. Specifies that certain legal and accounting services donated to a candidate committee are not contributions in kind.
Requires a radio or television station, newspaper, or periodical that charges a candidate committee a lower rate than it charges another candidate committee to report the difference in that rate as a contribution in kind to the candidate committee that is charged the lower rate.
Deletes the definition provisions treating all of the political committees of a particular organization as a single political committee and all of the affiliates of a political party as a single entity.
Increases campaign reporting requirements by requiring reports:
Gives those persons filing electronically 2 additional days in which to file reports with the secretary of state. Specifies that the secretary of state may establish reporting periods by rule.
Eliminates the requirement that reports be filed in duplicate. Requires the secretary of state to establish, operate, and maintain a web site through which a person who wishes to review reports may obtain read-only access to such reports free of charge. Requires the secretary of state to establish, operate, and maintain a system that allows filing of reports by utilizing the internet.
Authorizes the secretary of state to mail certain required notices in a manner other than certified mail and to provide such notices by electronic mail.
Requires the expenditure of all unexpended campaign contributions retained by a candidate committee of a former officeholder or person not elected to office within 9 years from the later of the expiration of the officeholder's term or date of the election. Exempts a candidate committee of a former officeholder or person not elected to office that has no change in funds held, contributions received, or expenditures made in a reporting period from the FCPA's reporting requirements for that period.
Modifies the complaint process by authorizing administrative law judges to impose appropriate sanctions if a violation is found rather than referring such a violation to the attorney general for appropriate legal action. Specifies that the decision of the administrative law judge is final and appealable to the court of appeals. Eliminates a private right of action in the district court on such complaints.
Modifies the applicability of criminal sanctions for violating certain provisions of the FCPA. Subjects anyone who intentionally violates the FCPA to a civil penalty. Eliminates the provision disqualifying persons that are convicted of violating the FCPA for the primary or general election ballot.
Authorizes the secretary of state to promulgate rules that are necessary for the administration or enforcement of the FCPA.
Specifies that the limits on contributions and contributions in kind contained in the act apply to any natural person, corporation, labor organization, candidate committee, political party , political committee, or authorized committee subject to the limits for the portion of any election cycle or for the portion of the year remaining after March 15, 2000, and for any election cycle or calendar year commencing after that date, whichever is applicable.
APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 15, 2000
H.B. 00-1229 Lieutenant governor candidates - nomination - filling of vacancies. Beginning with the 2002 general election, requires a major political party's gubernatorial candidate to nominate the party's candidate for lieutenant governor no later than 7 days after the primary election. Specifies that a lieutenant governor candidate must be a registered elector who has been affiliated with the political party for which he or she is nominated as a candidate for the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the nomination. Requires a lieutenant governor candidate to file a written acceptance of candidacy with the secretary of state within 30 days after the primary election.
Specifies the procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor or in a major party's nomination for lieutenant governor.
BECAME LAW June 3, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1304 Ballot issue information - implementation of constitutional amendments - TABOR questions. Modifies and clarifies certain provisions of the election code and initiative and referendum law in conformance with the state constitution's provisions directing the general assembly's staff to publish statewide ballot issues and to prepare and distribute a ballot information booklet on such ballot issues as follows:
Clarifies that the ballot issue notice requirements of TABOR apply to local government matters, and not state government matters, arising under TABOR.
Conforms the ballot issue notice mailing requirements for local governments to TABOR by requiring the mailing of such notices to 30 days, instead of 15 to 25 days, before a ballot issue election.
Clarifies certain provisions governing the explanation of a "yes" or "no" vote printed on the ballot and in any notice to electors provided by mailing or publication.
Commencing with the November 2000 general election, requires consecutive numbering of initiated statewide measures beginning with the number 20 and continuing consecutively at succeeding elections until the number 99 is utilized, at which time the measures shall be numbered consecutively beginning with the number 1. Authorizes the secretary of state to promulgate rules for administering the numbering and grouping of initiated measures.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1313 Electors with disabilities - assistance in voting. Requires an explanation of the procedures that govern the provision of assistance in voting to registered electors with disabilities to be posted at each polling place on or before election day. Requires the secretary of state to prescribe the form of the explanation by rule.
Allows persons other than election judges or family members of registered electors with disabilities to provide voting assistance to more than one registered elector with a disability in the voting booth or machine. Eliminates the requirement that any election judge or family member of a registered elector with a disability who provides voting assistance to a registered elector with a disability complete a self-affirmation form. Modifies the self-affirmation form required to be completed by any other person who provides voting assistance to a registered elector with a disability.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
H.B. 00-1319 Notice of election - voter information cards - mail ballot elections. Defines a voter information card as a written communication in the form of a card or letter containing certain information. Allows a county clerk and recorder to choose between notification by voter information card or by newspaper publication for all mail ballot elections. Adds the cost of mailing voter information cards to those costs the governing body calling a nonpartisan election is responsible for paying. Eliminates voter notification letters as a means for providing notice of an election.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1391 Election judges - appointment of high school students. Commencing with the November 2000 general election, authorizes county clerk and recorders to appoint qualified high school students to serve as student election judges. Authorizes the clerk and recorders to work with school districts and individual public or private secondary educational institutions to identify students willing and able to serve as student election judges. Specifies that the districts or educational institutions may submit the names of the students to the clerk and recorder of the county in which the school district or educational institution is located. Allows home-schooled students to apply to the county clerk and recorder for appointment as a student election judge.
Specifies the qualifications for appointment as a student election judge. Authorizes the county clerk and recorder to designate the precinct in which the student election judges shall serve. Limits the number of student election judges that may serve in any one precinct. Allows student election judges to receive up to 75% of the compensation received by a non-student election judge for their service.
Specifies that a student election judge may also be appointed to serve as a judge for the purpose of counting absentee and early ballots.
APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1394 State elections - voter fraud prevention. Requires the designated election official to maintain a record identifying the name and voting address of each elector who casts a ballot by absentee or early voting at any election.
Requires each county clerk and recorder, not later than 60 days after a state election, to transmit to the secretary of state, in a media format acceptable to the secretary of state, a list of electors showing who voted and who did not vote in the election. Requires that the list show, for electors who voted, the elector's method of voting, whether by early voting, absentee ballot, mail ballot, polling place voting, or otherwise.
No later than March 1 of each year following a year in which a general election was held, requires the secretary of state to distribute to each major and minor political party, free of charge, a list of electors who actually voted in the election.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE January 1, 2001
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1467 Direct record electronic voting machines - reuse - recount procedures. At polling places on election day, authorizes reuse of direct record electronic voting machines that have been utilized for early voting. Requires the records of early votes cast on such voting machines to be kept confidential until the time for counting the votes and to be stored on a diskette, tape, or compact disc before the voting machine may be reused.
Requires submittal to the secretary of state of any recount procedure that is adopted by a designated election official for direct record electronic voting machines. Also requires conformance of that procedure with the recount requirements. Establishes the components of a recount report.
Requires that a recount of votes cast on direct record electronic voting machines:
Specifies the procedure to be used in the event retabulation of ballot images from the removable memory device is impossible. Requires the designated election official, following the recount, to produce recount reports to determine if the recount and official election results match.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1472 Fair Campaign Practices Act - issue committees - public disclosure. Expands the existing definition of "issue committee" to include any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization, political party, or other organization or group of persons that has accepted total contributions in excess of $500 or made total expenditures in excess of $500 to support or oppose any ballot issue or ballot question. Specifies that, for purposes of this definition of issue committee, the term "expenditure" does not include expenditures made by persons in the regular course and scope of their business or in connection with communications sent solely to their members. Makes an issue committee open and active until affirmatively closed by the committee or by action of the appropriate authority.
Requires the type of issue committee that is the subject of the act to report only those contributions accepted, expenditures made, and obligations entered into for the purpose of supporting or opposing a ballot issue or ballot question. Specifies that this type of issue committee shall not be required to report donations, membership dues, or other income unless expressly designated for the purpose of supporting or opposing a ballot issue or ballot question.
Limits a subpoena issued by an administrative law judge requiring the production of documents by the type of issue committee that is the subject of the act to documents pertaining to contributions to, or expenditures from, the committee's separate account established to support or oppose a ballot issue or ballot question. Specifies that a subpoena shall not be limited in this manner where the issue committee fails to form a separate account through which a ballot issue or ballot question is supported or opposed.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
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