Colorado 2024 election: A list of the statewide ballot questions
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Colorado's ballot features more than just candidates.
State of play: The statewide ballot includes at least 14 questions for voters to decide on, ranging from taxes and spending to criminal justice and elections.
Here's a look at the measures, in short form.
🏠 Amendment G: Extends the homestead property tax exemption — 50% off the first $200,000 in value — to military veterans with total disability.
🏛️ Amendment H: Creates an independent board to oversee judicial misconduct.
🚫 Amendment I: Allows judges to deny bail to people charged with first-degree murder.
💍 Amendment J: Repeals the current constitutional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
📅 Amendment K: Amends the constitution to move the deadlines for referendum petitions one week earlier.
🏇 Proposition JJ: Allows the state to keep additional tax revenue from sports betting beyond the $29 million approved in 2019.
🔫 Proposition KK: Creates a new 6.5% state tax on sales of guns, parts and ammunition and direct revenue to victim support, mental health and school safety programs.
🏥 Initiative 89: Enshrines the right to an abortion in the state constitution and repeals a current ban on government funding for abortion services.
🐈 Initiative 91: Bans hunting or trapping bobcats, lynx and mountain lions and creates criminal penalties of up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
⛔ Initiative 112: Requires a person convicted of certain violent crimes to serve 85% of their prison sentence before parole eligibility.
🍎 Initiative 138: A constitutional amendment to reaffirm the guarantee of school choice as currently provided in law.
🐶 Initiative 145: Creates a new level of veterinary care with a professional associate.
💰 Initiative 157: Directs $350 million to local law enforcement for pay hikes and hiring. It also establishes a state-paid $1 million death benefit for officers killed on duty.
🗳 Initiative 310: Creates an all-candidate primary election in which the top four advance and puts ranked-choice voting for general elections in place.
What we're watching: Two more ballot measures on property taxes — Initiatives 108 and 50 — qualified for the ballot but are expected to be removed under a deal with state lawmakers.