Opinion ID: 2595483
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Rathburn's Motion for Rehearing

Text: Following the April 19 rehearing, the Board reset the titles and summary to reflect the one-time cost of a web-based computer interface and to indicate that state and local costs for law enforcement and incarceration were indeterminate. Rathburn filed a motion for rehearing on April 26, asserting that: the Board should not have amended the summary to include the web-based interface cost and to state that law enforcement costs were indeterminate. According to Rathburn's motion, the Board should have asked for further financial information from the OSPB and DOLA before concluding that the cost was indeterminate. In addition, the Board should have checked with the department of public safety and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to determine whether the web-based computer interface would be appropriate and necessary to carry out the Initiative's purposes. The Board heard Rathburn's motion for rehearing on May 3, 2000, and denied it on the grounds that it was without jurisdiction to hear it and that, even if it had jurisdiction, the motion would be denied on its merits. The Board points out that some of the petitioners had filed their petitions for review in this court by April 25, the day before Rathburn's motion for rehearing, and thus the Board did not have jurisdiction to hear the motion. [5] We agree with the Board that, once the petitioners had filed their petitions for review with this court, the Board lost jurisdiction to make substantive changes to the titles and summary. See Lopez-Samayoa, 887 P.2d at 14-15. Rathburn's motion for rehearing raised issues regarding the fiscal impact statement that other petitioners have raised in these review proceedings. Thus, granting Rathburn's motion for rehearing would have required the Board to make substantive changes to the summary after the case was in this court. This would impermissibly intrude on our jurisdiction over the case. The Board properly refused to consider Rathburn's motion for rehearing. [6] We will therefore not consider Rathburn's substantive objections to the summary.