KUNC: Colorado voters will no longer have the chance to restore some transparency rules on state lawmakers—at least not this year.

Libertarian activist Jon Caldara has withdrawn a ballot initiative to repeal Senate Bill 157, which the legislature passed in March to exempt themselves from parts of the Open Meetings Law. The measure allows lawmakers to have more conversations in private.

Caldara and opponents of the legislature’s decision to relax the transparency rules at the Capitol would have had to collect more than 124,000 signatures from voters by Aug. 5 to secure a spot on the November ballot. Caldara cited the high cost of obtaining those signatures as the reason for abandoning the initiative.

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