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Arizona Limits on Charges for Dialysis Initiative (2018)
| Arizona Limits on Charges for Dialysis Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Healthcare and Business regulation | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Limits on Charges for Dialysis Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required dialysis clinics to issue annual refunds to patients or the patients' payers, such as insurers, if a clinic or clinic-operating entity made more revenue than 115 percent of the sum of (1) costs associated with operating a clinic and providing care to patients and (2) costs spent on services to improve health quality and increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated state statutes certified for the 2018 ballot:
- Signatures: 150,642 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 5, 2018.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Details about the initiative
The initiative was filed with the secretary of state on March 26, 2018.[1] Signatures were never collected for the ballot initiative, as proponents decided to focus on similar initiatives in California and Ohio.[2]
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