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Ballot initiatives in Washington

The State of Washington allows three types of citizen-initiated ballot measures:

• Initiatives to the People (Washington). These are citizen initiatives that are placed on the ballot through the collection of signatures from voters.
• "Initiatives to the Legislature", if certified, are submitted to the Legislature at its next regular session in January. The Legislature must take one of the following three actions:

• Adopt the initiative as proposed, in which case it becomes law;
• Reject or refuse to act on the proposed initiative, in which case the initiative must be placed on the ballot at the next state general election; or
• Approve an alternative to the proposed initiative, in which case both the original proposal and the Legislature's alternative must be placed on the ballot at the next state general election.

• Veto referenda are placed on the ballot to overturn statutes recently passed by the state legislature. To qualify for the ballot, sufficient signatures must be filed with the Secretary of State not later than ninety days after final adjournment of the session in which the measure was passed by the state legislature.