Indirect initiative

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Citizen initiatives Indirect initiative Legislative referrals
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Citizen initiatives Indirect initiative Legislative referrals
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Indirect initiative refers to a process where after sufficient signatures to place a measure on the ballot are collected, the measure is first considered by a state legislature. If the legislature elects not to pass the proposed new law within a prescribed window of opportunity, the initiative is only then placed on the state's ballot.

Indirect initiatives comes in two forms, the indirect initiative amendment and the indirect initiative statute.

Types of ballot measures

Other types of ballot measures that appear in multiple states are:

advisory question automatic ballot referral legislatively-referred bond question combined initiated constitutional amendment and state statute

commission referral indirect initiated constitutional amendment indirect initiated state statute initiated constitutional amendment

initiated state statute legislatively-referred constitutional amendment legislatively-referred state statute veto referendum

Some related terms:

ballot measure Constitutional convention

Indirect initiative Legislative referral

See also

• Forms of direct democracy in the American states