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Review and Comment Hearing for Initiative #262, 263, 264

Monday, March 16, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

Legislative staff walked through review-and-comment on three proposed 2025-2026 ballot initiatives that would overhaul how Colorado elects its General Assembly — #262 and #263 by open-list proportional representation and #264 by mixed-member proportional representation — with proponents' counsel Martha Tierney conceding numerous drafting fixes across all three.

Key Actions

·initiative-262No vote

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Notable Quotes

Because under proportional representation, nearly every election is competitive and no matter how you draw the districts. So that's what proponents would say is one of the benefits of personal representation.

Martha Tierney, Counsel for the Designated Representatives · witnessTierney's summary of the central case for the proportional-representation model underlying all three initiatives.

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Testing, 1, 2, 3, test. Test. Testing. Testing. One, two, test. Okay, perfect. We're all set. So it is Monday, March 16th at 3:37pm and we are doing the review and commentary for proposed initiatives 2025, 2026 numbers 262, 263 and 264. If we go around and introduce ourselves to the record Hamza Seyeb, Legislative Council Staff Pierce Lively Office of Legislative Legal Services Martha Tierney Council for the Designated Representatives John Rettrom Designated Representative Craig Donaldson Designated Representative Perfect Section 141051 of the Colorado Revised Statutes requires the Directors of 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 to you regarding Amend the append to Proposed Initiative the Purpose of Statutory Requirements of Directors Legislative Council Staff the Office of Legislative Legal Services to provide is to provide comments and questions intended to a designated representatives and the proponents they represent in determining the language of the proposals and to avail the public of the contents of the proposal. Our first objective is to be sure we understand your intended purposes of the proposal. We
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