Statewide Ballot Measures
Issues that impact our industry

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​The HBA Board supports ballot measures that remove barriers to business in our industry and community and recommends the following voting positions on these ballot initiatives:
Download a flyer for the HBA's voting positions ​on Amendments 69, 70 & 71

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Amendment 69 - State Health Care System (ColoradoCare)
  • Summary: Amends the Colorado Constitution to create ColoradoCare, a taxpayer financed, state run system of universal healthcare in Colorado. This would establish a $25 billion political subdivision of the state to be governed by a twenty-one-member board of trustees. This would be funded by a 10% increase in payroll tax. 
  • Results for proposed initiative
  • HBA Position: OPPOSE
Amendment 70 - State Minimum Wage
  • Summary: This initiative would amend the Colorado Constitution to increase the minimum wage. Effective January 1, 2017, Colorado’s minimum wage would increase to $9:30 per hour and would increase annually by $.90 each January until it reaches $12 per hour effective January 2020. Beyond 2020 it would be adjusted annually for cost of living increases, as measured by the consumer Price Index used for Colorado. Additionally, no more than $3.02 per hour in tip income may be used to offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips. ​
  • Results for proposed initiative
  • HBA Position: OPPOSE
Amendment 71 - Requirements for Constitutional Amendments
  • ​Summary: Makes it more difficult to amend the Colorado Constitution. Currently Colorado law requires gathering nearly 100,000 signatures to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Current law has no geographic requirement in obtaining signatures for a ballot initiative. This initiative would require proponents of a constitutional amendment to collect signatures from 2% of registered voters in each of the state’s 35 senate districts to place the initiative on the ballot. Once on the ballot, issues would need 55% of the voters to pass instead of a simple majority. ​ 
  • Results for proposed initiative
  • HBA Position: SUPPORT
No. 98 - Primary Elections
No. 140 - Presidential Primary Election
No. 143 - New Cigarette and Tobacco Taxes
No. 145 - Medical Aid in Dying
The following issues did not make the ballot but are provided here to denote the HBA's position. 
No. 75 - Local Government Authority to Regulate Oil-and-Gas Development 
  • Summary: Would transfer the authority to regulate oil-and-natural gas development from the State to local governments. This would result in a Balkanized system of regulations across Colorado and would also allow local governments to take private property without compensating property owners. This could lead to years of expensive litigation and cos taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. 
  • Results for proposed initiative
  • HBA Position: OPPOSE
No. 78 - Mandatory Setback for Oil/Gas Development
  • Summary: An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a statewide setback requirement for new oil and gas development facilities, and, in connection therewith, changing setback requirements to require any new oil and gas development facility in the state to be located at least 2,500 feet from the nearest occupied structure or other specified or locally designated area and authorizing the state or a local government to require new oil and gas development facilities to be located more than 2,500 feet from the nearest occupied structure. 
  • Results for proposed initiative
  • HBA Position: OPPOSE
El Paso County ballot drop-off locations
  • 24-hour ballot drop-off locations:
  • *East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs, 80918
  • *Falcon Fire Department Station 3, 7030 Old Meridian Rd., Falcon, 80831
  • *Library 21C, 1175 Chapel Hills Drive, Colorado Springs, 80920
  • *Ellicott School District Administration Building, 322 S. Ellicott Highway, Calhan, 80808
  • *Black Forest Park-n-Ride, 7503 Black Forest Rd., Colorado Springs, 80908
  • Town of Monument Administration Building, 645 Beacon Lite Rd., Monument, 80132
  • Manitou Springs City Hall, 606 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, 80829
  • El Paso County Public Services Department, 1010 Golden St., Calhan, 80808
  • Charles C. “Chuck” Brown Transportation & Environmental Complex, 3275 Akers Drive, Colorado Springs, 80922
  • City of Colorado Springs Administration Building, 30 S. Nevada Ave, Suite 101, Colorado Springs, 80903
  • Indicates locations with drive-up ballot drop-off boxes

Other ballot drop-off locations:
  • El Paso County Clerk’s Office main office, 1675 Garden of the Gods Rd., Colorado Springs, 80907 (from 8 AM-5 PM,Monday through Friday from June 6-24 and June 27, 8 AM-1 PM, June 25 and 7 AM-7 PM, June 28).
  • El Paso County Clerk’s Office north branch, 8830 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs, 80920 (from 8 AM-5 PM, June 24 and June 27, 8 AM-1 PM, June 25 and 7 AM-7 PM, June 28).
  • El Paso County Clerk’s Office downtown branch, 200 S. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, 80903 (from 8 AM-5 PM Jun,e 24 and June 27, 8 AM-1 PM, June 25 and 7 AM-7 PM, June 28).
  • El Paso County Clerk’s Office southeast branch, 5650 Industrial Place, Colorado Springs, 80916 (from 8 AM-5 PM, June 24 and June 27, 8 AM-1 PM, June 25 and 7 AM-7 PM, June 28).
  • Fountain Police Department Community Room, 222 N. Santa Fe Ave., Fountain, 80817 El Paso County Clerk’s Office north branch, 8830 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs, 80920 (from 8 AM-5 PM, June 27 and 7 AM-7 PM, June 28).