1-minute voting guide: Amendments G and K, and Proposition JJ in Colorado
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These three ballot questions cover different policies that Colorado lawmakers want voters to decide on.
Why it matters: All are important policy debates touching on different aspects of state law.
Here's what to know about each measure:
Amendment G: This would extend the current homestead property tax exemption for veterans with disabilities to those designated as unemployable, or TDIU as the Department of Veterans Affairs calls it.
- The average tax break — up to 50% on the first $200,000 in a home's value — for veterans is $590 a year, legislative experts say.
- About 3,700 additional veterans would qualify if approved.
Amendment K: This measure would change the constitutional deadlines for citizens to file petitions for ballot initiatives and referendums to one week earlier.
- The move would make it easier for the Secretary of State's Office to process and review ballot questions before ballots are sent to military and overseas voters.
- Yes, but: It would also give the ballot campaigns less time to collect signatures in certain cases.
Context: As constitutional questions, Amendment G and K would need 55% to win.
Proposition JJ: The state is asking for permission to retain sports betting tax revenue that exceeded the $29 million limit allowed when voters approved Proposition DD in 2020 legalizing it.
- This would remove the limit and allow the state to collect additional tax revenue, expected at $1 million to $2.5 million more in each of the next three years.
- This measure needs only majority support to win.
- If it fails, the excess tax revenue would be returned to casinos and sports betting operations.