This blog post aims to inform and educate members on the ballot measures they will have an opportunity to vote on in November 2025.
Your ballot might also include local ballot initiatives. Look for a sample ballot on your County Clerk's website or contact their office for more information.
COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE - Ballot Initiatives:
Amendments and Propositions on the 2025 Statewide Ballot
Proposition LL – Healthy School Meals for All Program - House Bill 25-1274
Referred to the voters by the Colorado State Legislature: Without raising taxes, may the state keep and spend all revenue generated by the 2022 voter-approved state tax deduction limits on individuals with incomes of $300,000 or more and maintain these deduction limits to continue funding the Healthy School Meals for all program, which pays for public schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students in kindergarten through twelfth grade?
Proposition MM - Healthy School Meals for All Program - Senate Bill 25 SB003
Referred to the voters by the Colorado State Legislature: Shall state taxes be increased by $95 million annually by a change to the Colorado revised statutes to support access to healthy food for Colorado kids and families, including the healthy school meals for all program, and in connection therewith, increasing state taxable income only for individuals who have a federal taxable income of $300,000 or more by limiting itemized or standard state income tax deductions to $1,000 for single tax return filers and $2,000 for joint tax return filers for the purposes of fully funding the healthy school meals for all program to continue paying for public schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students while also increasing wages for employees who prepare and serve school meals, helping schools use basic, nutritious ingredients, instead of processed products, and ensuring that Colorado grown and raised products are part of school meals; supporting supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) that helps low-income Colorado families afford groceries; and allowing the state to retain and spend as a voter-approved revenue change all additional tax revenue generated by these tax deduction change?
Changes in Income Taxes Owed by Income Category
Income category of $299,999 or less = $0 Proposed change in average income tax owed
Income category of $300,000 or more = +$486 Proposed change in average income tax owed
Articles and Reports of interest:
Sentinel Article: Taggart among supporters of ballot items extending Healthy School Meals for All
Complete Colorado Article: 'Free' school lunch tax hike expanded to include food stamps
One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Nutrition Provisions Affecting States
KUNC: Advocates launch campaign to fully fund Colorado's universal school meals program