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Review and Comment Hearing for Initiative #327, 328

Friday, April 3, 2026·20m·▶ Watch / Listen

Legislative Council and Legislative Legal Services staff walked proponents through review-and-comment on paired congressional-redistricting measures — Initiative #327, a constitutional amendment routing review to the Colorado Supreme Court, and Initiative #328, a statute routing review to Denver District Court — both drawing temporary districts for the 2028 and 2030 elections.

Key Actions

·Initiative #327 — temporary congressional districts, Supreme Court reviewAction

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Notable Quotes

First, it would be great for you all to publish a little sort of set of guidelines for initiative drafting, specifically with the, you know, sections and just conventions. It's a refined art, let me say.

Scott Gessler (proponents' representative) · witnessProponents' representative pressing staff for public drafting guidance, underscoring how technical the initiative-drafting process has become.

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It. And hit record. Okay. Today is Friday, April 3rd. This is the review and comment hearing for the proposed measures for 2025, 2026, number 327 and number 328. My name is Jessica Shipley. I am with Legislative Council staff and I'm joined by Caroline Martin with the Office of Legislative Legal Services and the proponents of the measure, Robin Carnes and John Brackne. And I'm Scott Gusser representing the proponents today. Great. Thank you for being here. We're going to go through this review and comment memo. I'm going to go ahead and read the introduction. Carolyn Caroline will read the purposes. Then we'll go back and forth on the substantive comments. And then if you playing back which we don't want, Okay, then there are a series of technical comments and if you want those read, we can read them. Otherwise, we can just say that they are what they are. So. And you're welcome to make comments, not make comments. It's. It's totally up to you. So I'll start with the introduction. Section 140105 sub 1 Colorado Revised Statutes requires the directors of the Legislative Council staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to quote, review
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