The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to fund the Health School Meals for All program. But it might still go back to the ballot.

This time around, the stakes aren’t quite as high. The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to pay for the Health School Meals for All program, with some leftover for SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for low-income families.

But — unlike the first school meals election in 2022 — lawmakers thought they’d asked voters for permission to spend enough money to avoid issuing taxpayer refunds under the state constitution.

Only now it appears they didn’t, legislative analysts told the JBC in December. And as a result, Colorado could be headed toward a fourth statewide vote to authorize taxes for a single program.

Read more:  Colorado Sun