Ballot Title Setting Board
2025-2026

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes creating new law to increase water and land conservation funding without raising taxes, and, in connection therewith, through a voter-approved revenue change, allowing the state to keep and spend a portion of revenue from the state sales tax on sporting goods and equipment to conserve and protect Colorado’s water, land, and forests, prevent wildfires, support outdoor recreation training and activities, and reduce revenue spent on these conservation purposes if necessary to preserve funding for certain tax credits.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes creating new law to increase water and land conservation funding without raising taxes, and, in connection therewith, through a voter-approved revenue change, allowing the state to keep and spend a portion of revenue from the state sales tax on sporting goods and equipment to conserve and protect Colorado’s water, land, and forests, prevent wildfires, support outdoor recreation training and activities, and reduce revenue spent on these conservation purposes if necessary to preserve funding for certain tax credits?

Hearing April 16, 2026

Single subject approved; titles set (3-0).
Board members: Michael Dohr, Theresa Conley, Jennifer Sullivan
Hearing adjourned 10:36 AM.

* Unofficially captioned "Designate Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue for Conservation" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.