Arkansas Revenues for Debt Refunding, Proposed Amendment 31 (1940)

Voting on state and local government budgets, spending, and finance Policy Budget policy Ballot measures By state By year Not on ballot Local City budgets County budgets Spending limits School budgets Arkansas Constitution Preamble Articles 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • Schedule • Proclamation Amendments

The Arkansas Revenues for Debt Refunding Amendment, also known as Proposed Amendment 31, was on the November 5, 1940 ballot in Arkansas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was defeated. The measure would have required that the state never reduce their revenues from motor vehicle fuel and registration lower than $8,500,000 in order to pay principal and interest on refunding bonds.

Election results

Arkansas Amendment 31 (1940)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		121,230	75.00%
Yes		40,404	25.00%

Election results via: Arkansas Secretary of State

See also

Suggest a link

• Arkansas 1940 ballot measures
• 1940 ballot measures
• List of Arkansas ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Arkansas

External links

• Arkansas Initiatives and Amendments: 1938-2010
• Gentry Journal Advance Newspaper Archive: October 31, 1940

Footnotes

---

This historical ballot measure article requires that the text of the measure be added to the page.