Missouri Medical Aid in Dying Initiative (2018)
| Missouri Medical Aid in Dying Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Assisted death | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Medical Aid in Dying Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have made medically-assisted death legal among patients aged 18 years or older with a terminal illness.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of Initiative Petition 2018-116 is available here.
Path to the ballot
Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 5 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 100,126. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.
Natalie Meyer proposed the initiative.[2] The secretary of state rejected the petitions for the initiative.[3]
See also
- Missouri 2018 ballot measures
- 2018 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-116," December 29, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedtext - ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "2018 Initiative and Referendum Petitions Filed," accessed August 28, 2017
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