Ballot Title Setting Board

Proposed Initiative 2007-2008 #311

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

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a prohibition against
discrimination by the state, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state from
discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the
basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment,
public education, or public contracting; allowing exceptions to the prohibition when bona fide
qualifications based on sex are reasonably necessary or when action is necessary to establish
or maintain eligibility for federal funds; preserving the validity of court orders or consent
decrees in effect at the time the measure becomes effective; defining "state" to include the
state of Colorado, agencies or departments of the state, public institutions of higher education,
political subdivisions, or governmental instrumentalities of or within the state; and making
portions of the measure found invalid severable from the remainder of the measure.

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

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a prohibition
against discrimination by the state, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state from
discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the
basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment,
public education, or public contracting; allowing exceptions to the prohibition when bona fide
qualifications based on sex are reasonably necessary or when action is necessary to establish
or maintain eligibility for federal funds; preserving the validity of court orders or consent
decrees in effect at the time the measure becomes effective; defining "state" to include the
state of Colorado, agencies or departments of the state, public institutions of higher education,
political subdivisions, or governmental instrumentalities of or within the state; and making
portions of the measure found invalid severable from the remainder of the measure?

Actual Language

Note: The actual language is not the language that voters will see on the November ballot, however, it is the language that will be inserted into the Colorado Constitution when the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative passes in November. View the actual language of the measure here.

* The ballot title was written by the title board and approved by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2007.