Overview
- Proposition LL passed, allowing the state to keep about $12.4 million from prior overcollections and to retain future excess revenue for the Healthy School Meals for All program.
- Proposition MM passed, generating roughly $95 million a year by further limiting state income tax deductions for households earning $300,000 or more.
- About 200,000 higher‑income households — roughly 6% of filers — will see increased taxes, with nonpartisan estimates of average added payments of $327 for single filers and $574 for joint filers.
- The new funding preserves universal free breakfasts and lunches and provides capacity for cafeteria worker wage stipends and grants to buy Colorado-grown food as revenues permit.
- Any surplus after program costs can be used to offset new state expenses tied to SNAP administration under recent federal changes, with limited organized opposition reported to the measures.