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Missouri Voter Approval for Local Transaction Taxes for Massage Businesses Initiative (2024)
| Missouri Voter Approval for Local Transaction Taxes for Massage Businesses Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Voter Approval for Local Transaction Taxes for Massage Businesses Initiative did not appear on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
This initiative would have amended state law to allow voter approval when setting local transaction taxes to massage therapists and massage businesses.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute 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 with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 107,246 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 5, 2024.
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.
Stages of this ballot initiative
- This initiative was certified by the secretary of state and cleared for signature gathering on August 8, 2023.[2]
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