Colorado Statewide Ballot Measures 2026

Supports requiring law enforcement to notify the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when a person charged with a crime of violence, or with a prior felony conviction, has an immigration status that cannot be determined.

Leaves current notification practices unchanged.

Supports increasing penalties for fentanyl-related felonies, requiring treatment for certain drug offenses, and limiting sentencing exceptions in fentanyl-related crimes that cause another person's death.

Keeps current fentanyl-related penalties and sentencing rules.

Supports prohibiting healthcare professionals from providing surgeries to persons under 18 for the purpose of treatment in response to a minor's perception of sex or gender.

Leaves current law on such procedures unchanged.

Supports increasing the TABOR revenue cap and directing surplus funds to K-12 education expenses.

Keeps the current TABOR revenue cap and existing treatment of surplus funds.

Supports requiring life in prison without parole or release for persons convicted of human trafficking of a child for sexual servitude.

Keeps current sentencing law for that offense.

Supports requiring state and local governments to spend revenue from motor vehicle and fuel taxes, and two-thirds of sales taxes on vehicle parts and materials, on road transportation.

Keeps current flexibility in how those revenues may be spent.

Supports requiring all K-12 and collegiate school sports teams to be separated based on biological sex unless the team is co-ed.

Leaves current rules for school sports teams unchanged.

Supports capping Colorado's state income tax rate.

Leaves the Legislature's and voters' current authority over the income tax rate unchanged.

Supports directing sporting-goods sales-tax revenue to conservation programs.

Keeps that revenue in the state general fund under current allocations.

Supports adding a right to purchase and sell natural gas to the state constitution.

Leaves energy regulation to current state and local law.

Supports requiring ballot titles to be written in plain language.

Keeps the current ballot-title drafting rules.

Supports adding a constitutional right to hunt and fish.

Leaves hunting and fishing governed by current statute and regulation.

Supports requiring identification to vote by mail ballot.

Keeps Colorado's current signature-verification system for mail ballots.