initiatives

Rich Jones, director of policy and research at the Bell, and Senior Policy Analyst Frank Waterous offered testimony today on three bills important to the Bell.

Jones testified on two bills that concern Colorado's most important legal document – our state constitution. One bill would ask voters to create a constitutional review commission, and the other would ask voters to reform the process by which citizens initiate constitutional amendments.

SCR 10-003: Changing the Citizen Initiative Process
to Amend the Constitution

Rich Jones
Director of Policy and Research, The Bell Policy Center
April 28, 2010

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

Peter Marcus
Denver Daily News
Nov. 30, 2009

Conservative citizens are standing up against taxes with an arsenal of proposed 2010 ballot initiatives that would reduce government taxing and spending.

After reviewing the three proposals – Initiatives 10, 12 and 21 – it appears the intent of the initiatives are to generally lower taxes and limit government from spending and taxing, especially in the areas of vehicles, telecommunication, income, property and government borrowing.

By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post

As lawmakers struggle to balance the state budget, a wide spectrum of civic groups are quietly meeting to try to find long-term fiscal solutions - which could include ballot measures in 2011 that reform TABOR and the citizen-initiative process.

Introduction to SAFE, the proposed Savings Account for Education; introduction to other ballot proposals; review of economic forecasts and other economic data.