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Missouri Requirements for Public and Private Vaccine Mandates Initiative (2022)

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Missouri Requirements for Public and Private Vaccine Mandates Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Healthcare
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment
Origin
Citizens

The Missouri Requirements for Public and Private Vaccine Mandates Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The amendment would have prohibited the government and private organizations from mandating vaccines or medication unless it has been tested for at least 20 years and required vaccine providers to establish a 20 year escrow account and escrowed 75% of revenues for the purpose of paying medical claims.[1][2]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title is as follows:[2]

Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:

  • prohibit any government or other private organization from mandating any vaccine or medication unless the vaccine or medication has been in existence and successfully tested for at least 20 years without significant modification; and
  • require any vaccine provider without 20 years of existence and successful testing without modification and was not developed by use of inactivated toxins, or whole bacteria or virus, or part of them, and is not an RNA vaccine to establish a 20 year escrow account and escrow 75% of revenues for the purpose of paying medical claims?

State governmental entities anticipate no costs or savings, but annual revenues could be reduced by an unknown amount that could be significant. Local governmental entities anticipate no savings and ongoing costs of an unknown amount.[3]


Full text

  • The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

The state process

In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.

The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:

  • Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 171,592 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
  • Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 8, 2022.

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 initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.

Details about this initiative

  • Austin Shaffer filed the initiative on December 6, 2021.[2]
  • The secretary of state cleared for signature gathering on January 21, 2022.[2]
  • This initiative did not meet the signature requirements by the May 8, 2022 deadline.[4]

See also

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