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Colorado Question 1, a TABOR Adjustment Measure (1997)
From Ballotpedia
Colorado Ballot Number 1, also known as Tax and Fee Increases for Funding Transportation Projects, was on the November 4, 1997 election ballot in Colorado as an initiated state statute, where it was overwhelmingly defeated.Election results
| Colorado Ballot Number 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 d No | 585,055 | 84.2% | ||
| Yes | 109,663 | 15.8% | ||
Text on the Ballot
The ballot question was:
- State taxes shall be increased $172.8 million annually in the first full fiscal year of implementation, and by whatever additional amounts are raised annually thereafter, until the earlier of December 31, 2010, or the completion of projects described in the program approved on August 15, 1996, by the Colorado Transportation Commission, by an amendment to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning transportation funding, and, in connection therewith, increasing the fuel excise tax by 54 cents per gallon; increasing the motor vehicle registration fee by $10; imposing a new tax of $100 on the initial registration of certain motor vehicles; creating the Colorado Long Term Highway Needs Account and the Colorado Long Term Multi-Modal Transportation Needs Account; authorizing the study and implementation, if feasible, of toll roads to the extent that the revenues available are not sufficient to carry out the purposes of the measure; specifying the revenues to be deposited therein, the amount of revenues allocated to the state, counties, and municipalities, the transportation purposes for which the revenues may be expended, and that such revenues be collected and spent by the state, counties, and municipalities as a voter-approved revenue change under article X, section 20 of the Colorado Constitution.
See also
External links
- Text of Ballot Question 1, 1997
- History of Colorado ballot measures
- Colorado TABOR Question Election Results
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