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The Ballot Measure Scorecard lists statewide ballot measures certified for elections in 2020, along with indirect initiated measures that were approved by legislatures.
The Scorecard filters certified initiatives based on type of ballot measure.
See also: Overview of 2020 ballot measures
Certified for ballot
Statewide ballot measures were listed here once they had officially qualified or been scheduled to appear on the ballot. All statewide measures are listed by election date, including citizen initiatives, veto referendums, legislatively referred constitutional amendments, legislatively referred state statutes, legislatively referred bond questions, commission referrals, and automatic referrals.
March 3
- Maine Question 1, Religious and Philosophical Vaccination Exemptions Referendum (March 2020)
- Alabama Amendment 1, Appointed Education Board Amendment (March 2020)
- California Proposition 13, School and College Facilities Bond (March 2020)
April 7
June 30
July 14
- Maine Question 1, High-Speed Internet Infrastructure Bond Issue (July 2020)
- Maine Question 2, Transportation Infrastructure Bond Issue (July 2020)
August 4
November 3
- Florida Amendment 2, $15 Minimum Wage Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 20, Criminal Sentencing, Parole, and DNA Collection Initiative (2020)
- Mississippi Ballot Measure 1, Initiative 65 and Alternative 65A, Medical Marijuana Amendment (2020)
- Oregon Measure 109, Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative (2020)
- Iowa Constitutional Convention Question (2020)
- Michigan Proposal 1, Use of State and Local Park Funds Amendment (2020)
- Wyoming Constitutional Amendment A, Municipal Debt for Sewage Systems Measure (2020)
- Montana C-47, Initiated Statute and Referendum Distribution Requirements Amendment (2020)
- Nebraska Amendment 1, Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment C, Remove Slavery as Punishment for a Crime from Constitution Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment B, Legislator Qualifications Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment A, Gender-Neutral Constitutional Language Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment D, Municipal Water Resources Amendment (2020)
- North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1, Board of Higher Education Membership Amendment (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 4, Authorize Legislature to Recompile the State Constitution Measure (2020)
- Oregon Measure 110, Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 22, App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative (2020) /
- Oklahoma State Question 805, Criminal History in Sentencing and Sentence Modification Initiative (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment F, Legislative Session Start Date Amendment (2020)
- South Dakota Constitutional Amendment B, Deadwood Sports Betting Legalization Amendment (2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question A, Senior Citizens Facilities Bond Issue (2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question B, Public Libraries Bond Issue (2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question C, Public Education Bond Issue (2020)
- Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1, Marsy's Law Crime Victims Rights Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment E, Right to Hunt and Fish Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment G, Use Income and Property Tax Revenue to Support Children and Individuals with Disabilities Amendment (2020)
- Oklahoma State Question 814, Decrease Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund Deposits and Fund Medicaid Program Amendment (2020)
- Maryland Question 1, Legislative Authority over State Budget Amendment (2020)
- Louisiana Amendment 4, Expenditures Limit Growth Formula Amendment (2020)
- Michigan Proposal 2, Search Warrant for Electronic Data Amendment (2020)
- Rhode Island Question 1, Name Change Amendment (2020)
- Mississippi Ballot Measure 3, State Flag Referendum (2020)
- Washington Advisory Vote 32, Nonbinding Question on Carryout Bag Tax (2020)
- Washington Advisory Vote 33, Nonbinding Question on Heavy Equipment Rental Tax (2020)
- Washington Advisory Vote 35, Nonbinding Question on Business and Occupation Tax Rate Increase on Commercial Airplane Manufacturers (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 1, Citizenship Requirement for Voting Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 2, Judicial System Restructuring Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 3, Judicial Vacancies Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 5, "Stand Your Ground" Rights in Franklin County Churches Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 6, "Stand Your Ground" Rights in Lauderdale County Churches Measure (2020)
- Alaska Ballot Measure 2, Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting and Campaign Finance Laws Initiative (2020)
- Arkansas Issue 2, Change State Legislative Term Limits Amendment (2020)
- California Proposition 14, Stem Cell Research Institute Bond Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 15, Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 16, Repeal Proposition 209 Affirmative Action Amendment (2020)
- California Proposition 17, Voting Rights Restoration for Persons on Parole Amendment (2020)
- Colorado Proposition EE, Tobacco and E-Cigarette Tax Increase for Health and Education Programs Measure (2020)
- Florida Amendment 4, Require Constitutional Amendments to be Passed Twice Initiative (2020)
- Massachusetts Question 1, "Right to Repair Law" Vehicle Data Access Requirement Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 21, Local Rent Control Initiative (2020)
- Massachusetts Question 2, Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2020)
- Florida Amendment 3, Top-Two Open Primaries for State Offices Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Amendment B, Gallagher Amendment Repeal and Property Tax Assessment Rates Measure (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 118, Paid Medical and Family Leave Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Amendment 76, Citizenship Requirement for Voting Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 114, Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 115, 22-Week Abortion Ban Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 116, Decrease Income Tax Rate from 4.63% to 4.55% Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 117, Require Voter Approval of Certain New Enterprises Exempt from TABOR Initiative (2020)
- Georgia Referendum A, Property Tax Exemption for Certain Charities Measure (2020)
- Montana LR-130, Limit Local Government Authority to Regulate Firearms Measure (2020)
- California Proposition 18, Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2020)
- Missouri Amendment 3, Redistricting Process and Criteria, Lobbying, and Campaign Finance Amendment (2020)
- New Jersey Public Question 1, Marijuana Legalization Amendment (2020)
- Arizona Proposition 207, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020)
- South Dakota Initiated Measure 26, Medical Marijuana Initiative (2020)
- South Dakota Constitutional Amendment A, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020) /
- Montana CI-118, Allow for a Legal Age for Marijuana Amendment (2020)
- Montana I-190, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020)
- Nevada Question 2, Marriage Regardless of Gender Amendment (2020)
December 5
Signatures submitted
Proposed ballot initiatives were listed here when the initiatives' sponsors had turned in their petition signatures to election authorities, but the petitions had not been certified for the ballot. In some states, signature submission can take place over a long period of time and signatures can be submitted in multiple batches or must be submitted as they are collected. Only initiatives for which the signature submission process is complete were listed below.
Citizen-initiated measures with signatures submitted:
Any signatures submitted for 2020 initiatives have been processed.
Initiatives certified to the legislature
- See also: Indirect initiative
This phase of the initiative process only applies to indirect initiatives.
Ballot initiatives in states that feature an indirect initiative process must go before the state legislature after signatures are submitted and enough of the submitted signatures are found to be valid. This presentation to the legislature is an intermediate step for successful signature petition drives between when an initiative petition is found to be sufficient and certification for the ballot. In some states with an indirect initiative process, the legislature can approve the proposed law themselves or put it before voters. In other states, the legislature has the chance to propose alternatives or amendments to the initiatives that can appear alongside the citizen initiative on the ballot.
Initiatives certified to the legislature:
Any 2020 inidirect initiatives that were certified to the legislature have either been approved by legislators or referred to the ballot.
Approved by the legislature
This phase of the initiative process only applies to indirect initiatives.
Ballot initiatives in states that feature an indirect initiative process must go before the state legislature after signatures are submitted and enough of the submitted signatures are found to be valid. This presentation to the legislature is an intermediate step for successful signature petition drives between when an initiative petition is found to be sufficient and certification for the ballot. In some states with an indirect initiative process, the legislature can approve the proposed law themselves or put it before voters. In other states, the legislature has the chance to propose alternatives or amendments to the initiatives that can appear alongside the citizen initiative on the ballot. In some states, there are certain rules, such as legislative alteration rules, that don't apply if the legislature approves the initiative rather than putting it before voters.
Successful 2020 initiative petitions that were previously certified to the legislature and that were approved by the legislature instead of being put on the ballot are listed below:
Initiatives approved by the legislature:
- No 2020 indirect initiatives were approved by the legislature rather than going before voters.
Amendments
All states but Delaware require voter approval of proposed changes to the state constitutions, which can be put on the ballot in 2020 by state legislators or through initiative signature petitions in eighteen states. In some years, there are constitutional conventions or unique commissions in Florida that can refer amendments to the ballot, but neither of these were relevant in 2020. There are rare scenarios in which technical and non-substantive changes can be made to state constitutions without voter approval. All certified statewide measures in 2020 proposing to amend state constitutions that require statewide voter approval were listed here. This list includes any certified initiated constitutional amendments (in the first section) and legislatively referred constitutional amendments (in the second section).
The list does not include proposed constitutional amendments of local applicability that only required local voter approval. It also does not include amendments that did not require voter approval.
Initiated amendments
- Florida Amendment 2, $15 Minimum Wage Initiative (2020)
- Oklahoma State Question 802, Medicaid Expansion Initiative (June 2020)
- Oklahoma State Question 805, Criminal History in Sentencing and Sentence Modification Initiative (2020)
- Mississippi Ballot Measure 1, Initiative 65 and Alternative 65A, Medical Marijuana Amendment (2020)
- California Proposition 15, Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative (2020)
- Florida Amendment 4, Require Constitutional Amendments to be Passed Twice Initiative (2020)
- Florida Amendment 3, Top-Two Open Primaries for State Offices Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Amendment 76, Citizenship Requirement for Voting Initiative (2020)
- South Dakota Constitutional Amendment A, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020) /
- Montana CI-118, Allow for a Legal Age for Marijuana Amendment (2020)
Legislatively referred amendments
- Wisconsin Marsy's Law Crime Victims Rights Amendment (April 2020)
- Wyoming Constitutional Amendment A, Municipal Debt for Sewage Systems Measure (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment A, Gender-Neutral Constitutional Language Amendment (2020)
- Michigan Proposal 1, Use of State and Local Park Funds Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment C, Remove Slavery as Punishment for a Crime from Constitution Amendment (2020)
- Montana C-47, Initiated Statute and Referendum Distribution Requirements Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment D, Municipal Water Resources Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment B, Legislator Qualifications Amendment (2020)
- Nebraska Amendment 1, Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment (2020)
- North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1, Board of Higher Education Membership Amendment (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 4, Authorize Legislature to Recompile the State Constitution Measure (2020)
- South Dakota Constitutional Amendment B, Deadwood Sports Betting Legalization Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment F, Legislative Session Start Date Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment E, Right to Hunt and Fish Amendment (2020)
- Utah Constitutional Amendment G, Use Income and Property Tax Revenue to Support Children and Individuals with Disabilities Amendment (2020)
- Maryland Question 1, Legislative Authority over State Budget Amendment (2020)
- Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1, Marsy's Law Crime Victims Rights Amendment (2020)
- Oklahoma State Question 814, Decrease Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund Deposits and Fund Medicaid Program Amendment (2020)
- Louisiana Amendment 4, Expenditures Limit Growth Formula Amendment (2020)
- Michigan Proposal 2, Search Warrant for Electronic Data Amendment (2020)
- Rhode Island Question 1, Name Change Amendment (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 1, Appointed Education Board Amendment (March 2020)
- Alabama Amendment 1, Citizenship Requirement for Voting Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 2, Judicial System Restructuring Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 3, Judicial Vacancies Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 5, "Stand Your Ground" Rights in Franklin County Churches Measure (2020)
- Alabama Amendment 6, "Stand Your Ground" Rights in Lauderdale County Churches Measure (2020)
- Arkansas Issue 2, Change State Legislative Term Limits Amendment (2020)
- California Proposition 16, Repeal Proposition 209 Affirmative Action Amendment (2020)
- California Proposition 17, Voting Rights Restoration for Persons on Parole Amendment (2020)
- Colorado Amendment B, Gallagher Amendment Repeal and Property Tax Assessment Rates Measure (2020)
- California Proposition 18, Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2020)
- Missouri Amendment 3, Redistricting Process and Criteria, Lobbying, and Campaign Finance Amendment (2020)
- New Jersey Public Question 1, Marijuana Legalization Amendment (2020)
- Nevada Question 2, Marriage Regardless of Gender Amendment (2020)
Statutes
Most statutes that go before voters are put on the ballot by a citizen initiative petition. While state legislators can refer state statutes to the voters in certain states, they generally aren't required to as they do with proposed constitutional amendments. In Arizona and California, voter approval is required for statutory changes of laws previously approved through a citizen initiative. The list below includes both initiated state statutes and legislatively referred state statutes that were put on ballots in 2020.
Initiated statutes
- California Proposition 20, Criminal Sentencing, Parole, and DNA Collection Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 22, App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative (2020) /
- Oregon Measure 110, Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative (2020)
- Oregon Measure 109, Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative (2020)
- Alaska Ballot Measure 2, Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting and Campaign Finance Laws Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 14, Stem Cell Research Institute Bond Initiative (2020)
- Massachusetts Question 1, "Right to Repair Law" Vehicle Data Access Requirement Initiative (2020)
- California Proposition 21, Local Rent Control Initiative (2020)
- Massachusetts Question 2, Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 118, Paid Medical and Family Leave Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 114, Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 115, 22-Week Abortion Ban Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 116, Decrease Income Tax Rate from 4.63% to 4.55% Initiative (2020)
- Colorado Proposition 117, Require Voter Approval of Certain New Enterprises Exempt from TABOR Initiative (2020)
- Arizona Proposition 207, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020)
- South Dakota Initiated Measure 26, Medical Marijuana Initiative (2020)
- Montana I-190, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020)
Referred statutes
- Mississippi Ballot Measure 3, State Flag Referendum (2020)
- Colorado Proposition EE, Tobacco and E-Cigarette Tax Increase for Health and Education Programs Measure (2020)
- Georgia Referendum A, Property Tax Exemption for Certain Charities Measure (2020)
- Montana LR-130, Limit Local Government Authority to Regulate Firearms Measure (2020)
Veto referendums
A veto referendum is a type of citizen-initiated measure. But, instead of proposing a new law, a veto referendum is used by petitioners to seek the repeal of a law passed by the state legislature. The power of veto referendum is also referred to as people's veto.
Referred bond issues
In some states, the legislature is able to or required to put certain proposed bond issues before voters. This section lists legislatively referred bond questions. It does not list other types of measures that happened to propose the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness. For example, initiated constitutional amendments or initiated state statutes that were put on the ballot proposing the issuance of bonds are listed under the sections of this article about initiated constitutional amendments and initiated state statutes, respectively. To see a full list of all statewide measures proposing the issuance of bonds, regardless of what type of measure was used, click here.
- Maine Question 2, Transportation Infrastructure Bond Issue (July 2020)
- Maine Question 1, High-Speed Internet Infrastructure Bond Issue (July 2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question A, Senior Citizens Facilities Bond Issue (2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question B, Public Libraries Bond Issue (2020)
- New Mexico Bond Question C, Public Education Bond Issue (2020)
- California Proposition 13, School and College Facilities Bond (March 2020)
Automatic referrals
Some measures are referred to the ballot automatically by a provision of a state constitution or state law. One common type of automatic referral is a constitutional convention question periodically asking voters in a state if they want a constitutional convention to be held to consider revisions to the state constitution.
See also
- 2020 ballot measures
- Potential 2020 ballot measures
- Ballot measure annual scorecards
- Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2020
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