| 1 | 1 | | First Regular Session |
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| 2 | 2 | | Seventy-fifth General Assembly |
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| 3 | 3 | | STATE OF COLORADO |
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| 4 | 4 | | INTRODUCED |
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| 7 | 7 | | LLS NO. R25-0519.01 Megan McCall x4215 |
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| 8 | 8 | | HCR25-1002 |
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| 9 | 9 | | House Committees Senate Committees |
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| 10 | 10 | | State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs |
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| 11 | 11 | | HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25-1002 |
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| 12 | 12 | | S |
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| 13 | 13 | | UBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF101 |
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| 14 | 14 | | C |
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| 15 | 15 | | OLORADO AN AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION102 |
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| 16 | 16 | | CONCERNING A PROHIBITION ON A PERSON BEING A STATE103 |
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| 17 | 17 | | LEGISLATOR FOR A TERM OF OFFICE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING104 |
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| 18 | 18 | | A TERM FOR WHICH THE PERSON WAS APPOINTED TO FILL A105 |
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| 19 | 19 | | VACANCY IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THAT OFFICE .106 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Resolution Summary |
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| 21 | 21 | | (Note: This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and |
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| 22 | 22 | | does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this |
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| 23 | 23 | | resolution passes third reading in the house of introduction, a resolution |
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| 24 | 24 | | summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this resolution will be |
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| 25 | 25 | | available at http://leg.colorado.gov/ |
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| 26 | 26 | | .) |
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| 27 | 27 | | If approved by a vote of at least 55% of the voters of the state |
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| 28 | 28 | | HOUSE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 29 | 29 | | Marshall and Suckla, Bacon, Barron, Bottoms, Garcia, Hamrick, Johnson, Joseph, Keltie, |
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| 30 | 30 | | Soper, Titone, Velasco, Woog |
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| 31 | 31 | | SENATE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 32 | 32 | | Snyder, Frizell |
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| 33 | 33 | | Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment. |
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| 34 | 34 | | Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law. |
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| 35 | 35 | | Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. voting on the issue at the 2026 general election, the concurrent resolution |
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| 36 | 36 | | prohibits a person from being a state representative or senator for a term |
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| 37 | 37 | | of office that immediately follows a term for which the person was |
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| 38 | 38 | | appointed to fill a vacancy in the general assembly for that office. |
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| 39 | 39 | | Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fifth1 |
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| 40 | 40 | | General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SECTION 1. At the election held on November 3, 2026, the3 |
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| 42 | 42 | | secretary of state shall submit to the registered electors of the state the4 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ballot title set forth in section 2 for the following amendment to the state5 |
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| 44 | 44 | | constitution:6 |
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| 45 | 45 | | In the constitution of the state of Colorado, amend section 4 of7 |
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| 46 | 46 | | article V as follows:8 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Section 4. Qualifications of members. (1) No person shall be a9 |
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| 48 | 48 | | representative or senator who shall |
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| 49 | 49 | | HAS not have attained the age of10 |
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| 50 | 50 | | twenty-five years, who shall IS not be a citizen of the United States, and11 |
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| 51 | 51 | | who shall HAS not for at least twelve months next preceding his THE12 |
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| 52 | 52 | | PERSON'S election have resided within the territory included in the limits13 |
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| 53 | 53 | | of the district in which he THE PERSON shall be chosen.14 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (2) I |
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| 55 | 55 | | N ADDITION TO THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN SUBSECTION15 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (1) |
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| 57 | 57 | | OF THIS SECTION, NO PERSON SHALL BE A REPRESENTATIVE OR16 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SENATOR FOR A TERM OF OFFICE THAT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWS A TERM17 |
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| 59 | 59 | | FOR WHICH THE PERSON WAS APPOINTED TO FILL A VACANCY IN THE18 |
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| 60 | 60 | | GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THAT OFFICE .19 |
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| 61 | 61 | | SECTION 2. Each elector voting at the election may cast a vote20 |
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| 62 | 62 | | either "Yes/For" or "No/Against" on the following ballot title: "Shall21 |
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| 63 | 63 | | there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a22 |
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| 64 | 64 | | prohibition on a person being a state legislator for a term of office23 HCR25-1002-2- immediately following a term for which the person was appointed to fill1 |
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| 65 | 65 | | a vacancy in the general assembly for that office?"2 |
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| 66 | 66 | | SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided in section 1-40-123,3 |
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| 67 | 67 | | Colorado Revised Statutes, if at least fifty-five percent of the electors4 |
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| 68 | 68 | | voting on the ballot title vote "Yes/For", then the amendment will become5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | part of the state constitution.6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | HCR25-1002 |
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| 71 | 71 | | -3- |
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