Review and Comment Hearing for Initiative #199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210
Proponents brought a dozen variations of a single idea — a graduated Colorado income tax that would strike TABOR's flat-rate requirement — before a review-and-comment hearing, offering the Title Board a 'menu' of ways to draft it, while Legislative Council and Legal Services staff pressed for cleaner language and, on the final batch, warned the drafters had submitted 'an idea rather than the actual language.'
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“the Title Board had some concerns with the way we had initially done this. So we have put together a menu of choices of different ways of striking part of this one sentence of TABOR that achieves that goal to ensure that there's something that the Title Board feels acceptably contains a single subject.”
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Sign in to subscribeOkay. For the record, we are. I am Elizabeth Ramey, principal economist, Legislative Council staff, and we are here for the review and comment hearing for initiatives 199 through 210 through 10 concerning a graduated state income tax. I'm just checking that the recordings working. Okay. Okay. Section 1 40. Oh, yes. Sorry. So, yeah, just for the record, Rebecca Bi, with the Office of Legislative Legal Services. Kiana Newell, one of the proponents of the ballot measures. Chris° Kennedy, one of the proponents. Ed Ramey, one of the. Or the. The attorney for the proponents. I don't know why I can't learn how to operate my microphone, but. All right. What's your name? Oh, Elizabeth Ray, Legislative Council staff. Yes. Okay, so this is regarding the memorandum to Chris Degree Kennedy and Kiana Newell from Legislative Council Staff and Offices of Legislative Legal Services, January 20, 2026, regarding the measures under discussion here. Section 1:40, 151, Colorado Revised Statutes requires the directors of the Legislative Council staff. I was just going to say. We should say. Oh, three separate members. All right. Okay. All right. Proposal. Okay. The subject of this first part of the meeting is proposed initiative…
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