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Montana Designate Gallatin and Madison Rivers as “Outstanding Resource Waters” Initiative (2022)

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Montana Designate Gallatin and Madison Rivers as “Outstanding Resource Waters” Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Water
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute		Origin
Citizens

The Montana Designate Gallatin and Madison Rivers as “Outstanding Resource Waters” Initiative was not on the ballot in Montana as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

The initiative would have designated sections of the Gallatin and Madison Rivers as “outstanding resource waters.”[1][2]

Text of measure

Full text

  • The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Montana

The state process

In Montana, 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 most recent gubernatorial election. Moreover, signature collection must be distributed such that petitions include signatures equal to 5 percent of the votes cast for governor in each of one-third (34) of the state's legislative districts in the last gubernatorial election. Petitioners have a maximum of one year to collect signatures and get them verified by county elections officials.

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

  • Signatures: 30,180 valid signatures were required.[3]
  • Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures to county clerks was June 17, 2022. The deadline to submit signatures to the secretary of state was July 15, 2022.

County election officials check each signature to make sure the name corresponds to the name of a registered voter. Then they use a 5 percent random sampling method to check the authenticity of the signatures. Signature petitions are then sent to the secretary of state, which certifies the measure for the ballot if enough valid signatures were submitted.

Details about this initiative

  • The initiative was first filed on December 3, 2021, by John Meyer. A second version was filed on December 15, 2021.
  • The initiative was cleared for signature gathering on April 5, 2022.[2]
  • The sponsors did not file a sufficient number of signatures by the deadline.[4]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Montana Secretary of State, "Initiative I-191 Full text," accessed April 7, 2022
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Montana Secretary of State, "List of petitions," accessed April 8, 2022
  3. ↑ The exact number of signatures will be determined after the 2020 gubernatorial election.
  4. ↑ Helena Air, "Initiative to protect Gallatin, Madison rivers falls short of signatures needed by deadline," June 24, 2022
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