Maryland Authorizing Health Practitioners to Perform Abortions Referendum (2022)
| Maryland Authorizing Health Practitioners to Perform Abortions Referendum | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Abortion | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Referendum | Origin Citizens |
The Maryland Authorizing Health Practitioners to Perform Abortions Referendum was not on the ballot in Maryland as a veto referendum on November 8, 2022.
The veto referendum would have repealed House Bill 937 (HB 937), which authorized health practitioners, including nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants, to perform abortions.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
- The full text of the legislation is available here.
Sponsors
The Campaign to Protect Women led the campaign in support of the referendum.[2]
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Maryland, the number of signatures required to qualify a veto referendum for the ballot is equal to equal to 3 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election must be collected. Of the signatures required to qualify a veto referendum question for the ballot, not more than half can be from residents of Baltimore City or any one county. For non-emergency bills, one-third of required signatures must be submitted by the first of June on which the bill was set to go into effect. The remaining two-thirds must be submitted 30 days following that. For emergency bills or bills passed less than 45 days before June 1, referendum petitioners have until 30 days after the bill is passed by the legislature to turn in the first one-third of required signatures and 30 more days to collect and submit the remaining two-thirds.
The requirements to get a veto referendum certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 69,135 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline (standard bills): One-third of required signatures were due on May 31, 2022. The other two-thirds were due on June 30, 2022.
- Emergency bills or bills passed less than 45 days before June 1: For such emergency bills, referendum petitioners have until 30 days after the bill is passed by the legislature to turn in the first one-third of required signatures. If this is accomplished, they have 30 more days to collect and submit the remaining two-thirds of the signatures.
A 5 percent random sampling is used to verify signatures. If the random sampling projects that between 95 percent and 105 percent of required signatures were submitted, a full check is required. If the random sampling indicates more than 105 percent, the referendum is certified for the ballot. If less than 95 percent, the referendum petition fails.
Details about this initiative
- On May 5, 2022, the State Board of Elections cleared the petition for circulation.[2]
- The campaign did not submit a sufficient number of signatures on May 31, 2022.[3]
See also
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Footnotes
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