California Hydroelectric Included as Renewable and Zero-Carbon Resource Initiative (2020)
| California Hydroelectric Included as Renewable and Zero-Carbon Resource Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Energy | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The California Hydroelectric Included as Renewable and Zero-Carbon Resource Initiative (#19-0007) was not on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot initiative would have included hydroelectric facilities as eligible renewable energy resources with regard to all state laws and state funding concerning electrical programs.[1][2]
Text of measure
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The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
In California, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast in the preceding gubernatorial election. Petitions are allowed to circulate for 180 days from the date the attorney general prepares the petition language. Signatures need to be certified at least 131 days before the general election. As the verification process can take multiple months, the secretary of state provides suggested deadlines for ballot initiatives.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 997,139 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline for signature verification was June 25, 2020. However, the process of verifying signatures can take multiple months. The recommended deadlines were March 3, 2020, for an initiative requiring a full check of signatures and April 21, 2020, for an initiative requring a random sample of signatures.
Signatures are first filed with local election officials, who determine the total number of signatures submitted. If the total number is equal to at least 100 percent of the required signatures, then local election officials perform a random check of signatures submitted in their counties. If the random sample estimates that more than 110 percent of the required number of signatures are valid, the initiative is eligible for the ballot. If the random sample estimates that between 95 and 110 percent of the required number of signatures are valid, a full check of signatures is done to determine the total number of valid signatures. If less than 95 percent are estimated to be valid, the initiative does not make the ballot.
Stages of this initiative
Adam C. Gray filed this ballot initiative on August 8, 2019. The ballot initiative was withdrawn on September 3, 2019.[3]
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