Federal judge declines to immediately block Colorado law meant to persuade voters not to cut their taxes

A federal judge Wednesday left in place a 2021 law intended to make it harder to persuade Colorado voters to cut their taxes , ruling against a con...

September 5, 2023
2:06 AM

A federal judge Wednesday left in place a 2021 law intended to make it harder to persuade Colorado voters to cut their taxes , ruling against a conservative dark-money group suing to block the measure as it seeks to ask voters to cut sales and property taxes. House Bill 1321 , passed by Democrats and signed by Gov. Jared Polis, requires any citizen-initiated ballot measure cutting taxes to include a warning about three programs and services that would be most affected by the cuts. (For state tax reductions, that's likely to always be K-12 education, higher education, and health care policy and financing, namely Medicaid.

Elliott Wenzler