Colorado Votes

Expands legal protections for transgender individuals in Colorado.

Creates a new refundable state-tax credit program to support the film-festival industry.

Tightens rules on ammunition sales in the state.

Replaced gender-specific language with gender-neutral language throughout Title 35 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.

Requires local governments to ensure their building codes meet or exceed the accessibility provisions of the International Building Code.

Repealed Colorado's statute clarifying that a marriage is valid only if it is between one man and one woman.

Establishes new fees on oil and gas production in Colorado.

Grants the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) authority to seek federal approval for Class VI injection wells for underground carbon storage.

Makes price gouging of rent-based housing during disaster periods in designated areas an "unfair and unconscionable act."

Delays some parts of the Healthy School Meals for All program until FY 2025-26, extends certain reimbursements for a year, and creates a new cash fund for the program to help reduce costs and maximize federal funding.

Mandates that local governments and state Department of Personnel cannot install (and must ban others from installing) nonfunctional turf, artificial turf, or invasive plants in new developments or redevelopments.

Mandates that payment card networks must offer a merchant category code for firearms and payment processors must assign this code to firearms merchants.

Lets a county clerk and recorder issue a "marriage" or "civil union" license without the applicants appearing in person.

Creates "bonus payments" to incentivize participation in the Colorado universal preschool provider program.

Limits the issuance of a "no-knock search warrant" to a situation in which there is either probable cause for an arrest of a suspect or because of a "credible threat to the life of any person."

Permits recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.

Requires certain health benefit plans to cover "abortion care" and "sterilization services," while allowing "contraceptive procedures, supplies, or information" to be offered to minors without parental notification or consent.

Designates March 14, 2023, as "Equal Pay Day," due to "the persistent problem of wage disparity" among "women, trans women, gender-expansive people, and women of color."

Creates the Displaced Aurarian scholarship for the descendants of Aurarians, a neighborhood in Denver, displaced by the development of the Auraria Higher Education Center between 1955 and 1973.

Sets standards to reduce building greenhouse gas emissions.

Gives more rights to those who are incarcerated.

Makes it illegal to impose restrictions on abortion and makes it legal to murder preborn babies up to the moment of birth.

Urges Congress to pass comprehensive voting rights legislation that compromises election integrity.

Rescinds of all previous requests by the Colorado Legislature for a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.