Amendment 82: Right to Natural Gas
Source: results.enr.clarityelections.com
What does this measure do?
Colorado's constitution would guarantee that people can buy natural gas for cooking and heating in homes and businesses, and that utilities can sell it. Local rules that keep new buildings from using gas could no longer apply, and your taxes do not change.
Proposed by: Citizen initiative by Advance Colorado (Initiative 177; Steven Ward and Michael Fields)
Advance Colorado is a conservative group whose president is Michael Fields. It says natural gas is clean, reliable and affordable and wants a right to buy it in the constitution.
Source: news.ballotpedia.org
A YES vote means
The right to buy and sell natural gas goes into the state constitution, so no state or local rule could stop homes or businesses from using it.
A NO vote means
Nothing changes. State and local governments keep their current power to limit natural gas use in buildings.
Campaign Finance Information
Campaign Finance Information
Largest donors supporting
- Common Sense America · VANational nonprofit; donors not public$250,000
- Advance ColoradoColorado conservative advocacy nonprofit$20,000
- Richard McCormickDenver retiree$5,000
Some of this money went to groups that also work on other measures.
Largest donors opposing
- Conservation ColoradoState environmental advocacy group$181,017
- Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action FundImmigrant rights advocacy group$50,000
- Coloradans for Real Safety SolutionsColorado issue committee against Proposition 132Its top donors: Lynn Schusterman (Tulsa philanthropist); ACLU of Colorado; Signal Behavioral Health Network$50,000
- Cobalt FoundationAbortion rights advocacy group$35,000
- AFSCME · DCPublic employees union$25,000
Some of this money went to groups that also work on other measures.
Filings as of September 17, 2026 · Sources: tracer.sos.colorado.gov23
Sources: coloradosos.gov · sos.state.co.us