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Missouri Gas Tax Referendum (2022)
| Missouri Gas Tax Referendum | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Referendum | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Gas Tax Referendum was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The amendment would have repealed Senate Bill 262, which authorized a gradual increase in the state's gas tax by $0.025 per gallon in each fiscal year until it reaches $0.29 per gallon on July 1, 2025. As of August 2021, Missourians paid $0.17 per gallon.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify a veto referendum for the ballot is equal to 5 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed 90 days following the adjournment of the legislative session in which the law was passed.
The requirements to get a veto referendum certified for the 2022 ballot:
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the veto referendum is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Stages of this initiative
- Jeremy Cady of Americans for Prosperity filed the ballot initiative on May 14, 2020.[1]
- On May 28, the Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) rejected the petition as drafted. On the same day, Cady filed a new version of the initiative petition saying, "Today, we received word of the rejection of our referendum language based on a technicality. We immediately reviewed the language and filed a corrected petition. We want to thank Attorney General Schmitt for promptly reviewing the new language and approving it. This approval puts us one step closer to allowing Missourians weigh in on the $500 million tax increase passed by the Missouri Legislature."[1]
- On August 2, 2021, the campaign announced that they were suspending their signature campaign. Jeremy Cady, one of the sponsors of the initiative, said, "We were unable to get all the pieces to come together. We’ll be looking at tax reforms the legislature can take up that would remove the extra burdens lawmakers added by increasing the gas tax by 75%."[2]
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