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Massachusetts Prohibition on Restricting Gasoline Supply Initiative (2022)

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Massachusetts Prohibition on Restricting Gasoline Supply Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Energy
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute		Origin
Citizens

The Massachusetts Prohibition on Restricting Gasoline Supply Initiative was not on the ballot in Massachusetts as an indirect initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

The initiative would have prohibited the use of "any tax, fee, other revenue-generating mechanism, or market-based compliance mechanism" to restrict the supply of gasoline needed to meet consumer demand.[1][2]

Text of measure

Ballot summary

The final ballot summary for the initiative was as follows.[3]

“ This proposed law would prohibit Massachusetts from imposing any tax, fee, revenue-generating measure, or market-based compliance measure if it would reduce or restrict the supply of gasoline, diesel fuel, special fuels, or other motor fuels available to meet consumer demand.[4] ”

Full text

  • The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Massachusetts

The state process

In Massachusetts, the number of signatures required to qualify an indirect initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 3.5 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. No more than one-quarter of the verified signatures on any petition can come from a single county. The process for initiated state statutes in Massachusetts is indirect, which means the legislature has a chance to approve initiatives with successful petitions directly without the measure going to the voters. A first round of signatures equal to 3 percent of the votes cast for governor is required to put an initiative before the legislature. A second round of signatures equal to 0.5 percent of the votes cast for governor in the last election is required to put the measure on the ballot if the legislature rejects or declines to act on a proposed initiated statute. Signatures for initiated statutes in Massachusetts are collected in two circulation periods. The first period runs from the third Wednesday in September to two weeks prior to the first Wednesday in December, a period of nine weeks. If the proposed law is not adopted by the first Wednesday of May, petitioners then have until the first Wednesday of July (eight weeks) to request additional petition forms and submit the second round of signatures.

The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2022 ballot:

If enough signatures are submitted in the first round, the legislature must act on a successful petition by the first Wednesday of May. The measure only goes on the ballot if the legislature does not pass it and if the second round of signatures is successfully collected.

Details about this initiative

  • The initiative was filed by David DeCoste on August 4, 2021.[2]
  • On September 1, 2021, the attorney general cleared the initiative for signature gathering.[3]
  • The campaign did not submit a sufficient number of signatures by the deadline.[5]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, "Full text," accessed August 5, 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, "List of petitions," accessed August 5, 2021
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Massachusetts Attorney General, "Final Summary," accessed September 1, 2021
  4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  5. ↑ WBUR, "Deadline whittles ballot question field to three campaigns," December 2, 2021
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