Review and Comment Hearing for Initiative #266, 267, 268
In a review-and-comment session — not a vote — Legislative Council and Office of Legislative Legal Services staff walked proponent Ben Gelhouse through three linked initiatives (#266, #267, #268) aimed at 'digital property rights,' an automation-mitigation enterprise, and the fees to fund it, flagging a cascade of constitutional and drafting problems on each. Staff repeatedly cautioned that effective-date language, retroactivity, TABOR, and references to entities that do not yet exist would need work; proponents declined to walk through the technical comments.
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“So essentially, I hard blocked the capability of being able to generate anybody in any compromising situation or any AI generation of any kind of other than what they allow. That was the entire purpose of that particular bill. To establish real privacy and literally a cure for deep fakes.”
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Sign in to subscribeAnd then the control I did control start. Oh perfect. Okay. And this meeting is regards to 268 or all righty do enough of these you end up losing. We will begin. This is the hearing for proposed initiative measure 266 concerning digital property rights and restitution for Digital harm. It is 1:01pm March 19, 2026 in House Committee Room 109. We will go around and introduce ourselves. For the purposes of the record, my name is Hiroshia Jawara and I am with Legislative Council staff. Amanda King Legislative Council Staff I'm Richard Sweetman with the Office of Legislative Legal Services. Ben Gelhouse, one of the proponents of the bills at Rich Cousin and Jesse Codd the same section 1401051 Colorado Revised Statutes requires the Directors of the Colorado Legislative Council and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to review and comment on initiative petitions for proposed laws and amendments to the Colorado Constitution. The purpose of this statutory requirement of the Directors of Legislative Counsel and the Office of Legislative Legal Services is to provide comments intended to aid proponents in determining the language of their proposal and to avail the public of knowledge of the contents of the…
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