Legislative Council staff conducted a review and comment hearing on four proposed statewide limited gaming initiatives (2025-2026 #415, #416, #417, and #418), raising extensive technical and substantive drafting concerns — including internal conflicts, redundant provisions, formatting violations, and erroneous cross-references — with proponents confirming intent to revise at least one provision on the record. No votes were taken.
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Greg Sobetsky explained that the phrase 'so long as' in the second subsection numbered 8C.2 implies a jurisdiction could subsequently lose its authority for limited gaming, but the initiative provides no mechanism by which that could happen. Mr. Harry initially responded that proponents had not thought about it and had no comment, and ultimately stated: 'I think we're going to take that out.'
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“Subsection 8A of the proposed initiative 415 conflicts with subsection 8C1 of the proposed initiative because section 8A purports to legalize limited gaming statewide, and subsection 8C1 describes a prerequisite, in other words, a ballot initiative that a community must satisfy before it may permit limited gaming within its boundaries.”
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Sign in to subscribeCheck, check, check. Sam, Are the mics on on the table? Good morning. It is April 3, 2026. At 10:03am we are going to begin the review and comment hearing for proposed initiative measures 2025, 2026, number 4, 15, 416, 417 and 418, which we have informally captioned concerning the legalization of limited gaming statewide. My name is Greg Sobetsky. I'm here representing Legislative Council staff and I'm joined by Mr. Sweetman, Richard Sweetman, Legislative Legal Staff and then we're also joined by the designated representatives of the proponents of all four measures. Would you like to introduce yourselves for the record, Please. Thank you both so much for being here this morning. We really appreciate it. I'm going to read through some required text before we get started. Then we'll go through the purposes that we've identified for all four measures and and then we'll go through our substantive comments and questions for the measures. Section 140.105, subsection 1, Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the directors of the Legislative Council staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to review and comment on initiative petitions, proposed laws and amendments to the Colorado Constitution. We hereby submit our comments and questions…
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