Colorado’s biannual exercise in direct democracy will get a real workout this year, with voters being asked to consider more than a dozen changes to the state’s laws and constitution. Half of those questions were put on the ballot by state lawmakers, and the rest came from interest groups outside the Capitol.

Here’s how they fared:

This constitutional amendment would expanding the number of veterans living with disabilities who qualify for a property tax exemption on a portion of the value of their principal residence. Currently, what is known as the homestead exemption has been limited to veterans with a totally permanent service-connected disability. If Amendment G is approved, it would include veterans with a significant service-connected disability that makes them unable to work, which the Veterans Administration classifies as having “individual unemployment” status. Nonpartisan legislative staff estimate this change would cover about 3,400 additional veteran homeowners.

Lawmakers are asking voters to change the rules for how Colorado deals with misconduct in the judicial branch. This amendment would create a new the independent judicial discipline commissionmade up of judges, lawyers and members of the public. The Board will conduct disciplinary hearings and hear appeals of informal corrective sanctions issued by the Commission on Judicial Discipline.

This constitutional amendment would first degree murder suspects are not eligible for bailas long as prosecutors can show they have a strong enough case. Currently, the state constitution says only people charged with “capital crimes” can be denied bail. When the state had the death penalty, it applied to anyone charged with first-degree murder (which was potentially punishable by death). But last year, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that since Colorado eliminated capital punishment, first-degree murder is no longer a capital offense. Changing the text of the constitution would return the state to the bail practices it had before lawmakers repealed the death penalty.

This measure mentioned would affect the language in the state constitution that reads: “Only a union between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as marriage in this state.” Colorado voters inserted a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution in 2006.

This constitutional amendment would to extend the deadline for citizens’ initiatives by one week to submit their petition signatures. The same change would apply to the Statement of Intent judges and judges must submit if they wish to run for retention. In addition, it requires nonpartisan research staff to publish the official text and titles of the ballot measures a month early.

This amendment would cements the right to legal abortion in the state constitution and compel future legislatures to pass laws limiting access. It also lifts the 40-year-old ban on public funding for abortion. This could allow Colorado to cover more abortions under Medicaid and for state and local governments to add abortion coverage to employee health insurance plans.

This one-paragraph amendment would enshrine in the state constitution the right of parents to choose the type of education to provide their children, from kindergarten through 12th grade, including neighborhood schools, charter and private schools, education at domicile, open enrollment and “future innovations in education.”

This initiative would ends hunting seasons for mountain lions and bobcats in Coloradoand prevents the state from ever allowing lynx hunting (lynxes, which were reintroduced to Colorado in 1999, are still considered endangered by the state). Big cats could still be killed by state or federal employees as part of population management efforts or, with state permission, by ranchers to prevent animal depredation. People who accidentally hit an animal with their car would not be fined.

According to Prop. 128, persons convicted of certain crimes would have to serve at least 85% of their sentence before becoming eligible for parole or early release for good behavior. This is an increase from the current law, which allows inmates to apply for parole after serving at least three-quarters of their sentence, or even sooner if they have earned time off through good behavior while incarcerated. The list of crimes covered includes murder, sexual assault, aggravated robbery and aggravated assault, kidnapping, arson and burglary.

Measure creates a new mid-level position — between a veterinary technician who has a two-year associate degree and a veterinarian who has eight or more years of education — called a veterinary professional associate, or VPA. VPAs would be individuals with master’s degrees in veterinary care who could diagnose animals, perform routine surgery, and order and perform tests and procedures under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

This measure would require the state government to allocate $350 million a dedicated law enforcement fund. The money would go toward providing grants to local departments to help hire, train and retain officers, as well as a new $1 million death benefit for families of law enforcement officers killed on the job.

The way Colorado conducts its state and federal elections would be change in two significant ways within this initiative:

• No more party primaries: Instead of each party choosing its own candidate for the general election, all qualified contestants in a given race will be placed on the same primary ballot. The top four vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, will advance to the general election.
• Ranked-choice voting for the general election: Before the November election, voters will receive a ballot with a list of four candidates. Instead of selecting just one, voters would rank some or all of them in order of preference. All voter rankings would be combined in a mathematical process to determine the winner. This version of ranked choice voting is also known as “snapshot voting”.

This would allow Colorado keeps and spends all the tax revenue it collects from sports betting. When voters approved sports betting five years ago, the state estimated it would generate about $29 million in tax revenue each year. However, state economists now believe that the 10% tax on betting operations will bring in much more than that in the coming years. The additional money would go towards water conservation and protection projects.

This proposal would require a new 6.5% excise tax on arms and ammunition saleswith money raised by the tax going toward behavioral health assistance for veterans and youth, as well as school safety and gun violence prevention programs and services for victims of domestic violence and other violent crimes.