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Arizona Sales Tax for Fire District Funding Initiative (2022)

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Arizona Sales Tax for Fire District Funding Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Taxes
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute
Origin
Citizens

The Arizona Sales Tax for Fire District Funding Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

The ballot measure would have enacted a 0.1% (one-tenth of 1-cent) sales tax for 20 years to provide additional funding for fire districts.[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the ballot initiative is available here.

Path to the ballot

Process in Arizona

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 2022 ballot:

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.

Stages of this initiative

The organization Support Arizona Fire Districts filed the ballot initiative on October 5, 2021.[2]

See also

Footnotes