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Arkansas Prohibit Government Infringements on Individuals' Medical Decisions Initiative (2022)

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Arkansas Prohibit Government Infringements on Individuals' Medical Decisions Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Healthcare
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
Citizens

The Arkansas Prohibit Government Infringements on Individuals' Medical Decisions Initiative was not on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The measure would have prohibited the government or individuals from infringing on another person's medical decisions, including during pandemics or states of emergency.[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Arkansas

The state process

In Arkansas, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Proponents must collect signatures equaling at least half of the designated percentage of gubernatorial votes in at least 50 of the state's counties. Signatures remain valid until the date of the next general election following the certification of ballot language. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.

The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2022 ballot:

If the secretary of state certifies that enough signatures were submitted in a petition, the initiative is put on the ballot. If a petition fails to meet the signature requirement, but the petition has at least 75 percent of the valid signatures needed, petitioners have 30 days to collect additional signatures or demonstrate that rejected signatures are valid.

Details about this initiative

  • The initiative was filed on January 4, 2022, by Tanya Charlton.[1]
  • Proponents did not publish the initiative in a statewide newspaper (a prerequisite to submitting signatures) before the deadline on June 8, 2022, therefore the initiative did not qualify for the ballot.[2][3][4]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Research and Extension, "Public Policy Center's Arkansas Ballot Issue Newsletter & Voter Guide Archives," accessed June 17, 2022
  2. ↑ Arkansas.gov, "2022 Initiative and Referendum Handbook," accessed June 17, 2022
  3. ↑ Magnolia Reporter, "Deadline looms over Arkansas ballot issue groups," accessed June 17, 2022
  4. ↑ Ballotpedia Staff, Communication with David Couch, June 17, 2022]
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