Advance Colorado is championing three vital ballot measures in the 2024 election, offering Coloradans the chance to make a significant impact on the state’s future. These measures are designed to strengthen communities, support law enforcement, and protect educational freedom for all Colorado families.
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“Shall funding available for counties, school districts, water districts, and other districts funded, at least in part, by property taxes shall be impacted by a reduction of $3 billion in property tax revenue by a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a reduction of the valuation for assessment of certain real property for property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, and, in connection therewith, reducing the valuation for tax assessment for property other than residential real property, producing mines, and oil and gas lands to 24% of the property’s actual value; reducing the valuation for tax assessment for residential real property to 5.7% of the property’s actual value; requiring the state to reimburse local districts for revenue lost as a result of these changes; and requiring the state to maintain current funding for the state education fund?”
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“Shall funding available for counties, school districts, water districts, and other districts funded, at least in part, by property taxes shall be impacted by a reduction of $3 billion in property tax revenue by a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a reduction of the valuation for assessment of certain real property for property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, and, in connection therewith, reducing the valuation for tax assessment for property other than residential real property, producing mines, and oil and gas lands to 24% of the property’s actual value; reducing the valuation for tax assessment for residential real property to 5.7% of the property’s actual value; requiring the state to reimburse local districts for revenue lost as a result of these changes; and requiring the state to maintain current funding for the state education fund?”
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Truth In Sentencing (Proposition 128) would require the state’s most violent criminals to serve 85 percent of their sentences before being eligible for parole. Upon a third offense, inmates would be required to serve 100 percent of their sentences. Violent criminals today serve an average of 46 percent of their sentences.
Back The Blue (Proposition 130) would require the state to invest funds already collected from taxpayers – without any new taxes – to enhance the recruiting, training, retention, and compensation of law enforcement and peace officers across Colorado. It would also provide a $1 million death benefit to the surviving family members of first responders killed in the line of duty.
“Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning parole eligibility for an offender convicted of certain crimes, and, in connection therewith, requiring an offender who is convicted of second degree murder; first degree assault; class 2 felony kidnapping; sexual assault; first degree arson; first degree burglary; or aggravated robbery committed on or after January 1, 2025, to serve eighty-five percent of the sentence imposed before being eligible for parole, and requiring an offender convicted of any such crime committed on or after January 1, 2025, who was previously convicted of any two crimes of violence, not just those crimes enumerated in this measure, to serve the full sentence imposed before beginning to serve parole?”
“Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning state funding for peace officer training and support, and, in connection therewith, directing the legislature to appropriate 350 million dollars to the peace officer training and support fund for municipal and county law enforcement agencies to hire and retain peace officers; allowing the fund to be used for pay, bonuses, initial and continuing education and training, and a death benefit for a peace officer, police, fire and first responder killed in the line of duty; and requiring the funding to supplement existing appropriations?”
Amendment 80 safeguards Coloradans’ existing rights by placing a basic right to school choice in the state Constitution. This measure would protect Coloradans’ current options to choose among neighborhood schools, charter schools, homeschooling or private schools. It also safeguards open enrollment that allows families to choose a different public school that meets their child’s needs.
“Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution establishing the right to school choice for children in kindergarten through 12th grade, and, in connection therewith, declaring that school choice includes neighborhood, charter, and private schools; home schooling; open enrollment options; and future innovations in education?”
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