Montana Landowner Hunting Initiative (2024)
| Montana Landowner Hunting Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Hunting and fishing | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Montana Landowner Hunting Initiative was not on the ballot in Montana as an initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
This initiative would have prohibited regulations that prevent licensed landowners from hunting deer, elk, and black bears on their own private hunting lands during statewide general hunting season.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
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 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 30,180 valid signatures
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures to county clerks was June 21, 2024. The final deadline for county clerks to submit signatures to the secretary of state was July 19, 2024.
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 filed by Rick Schoenig and it was approved for signature gathering on December 8, 2023.[1]
- Signatures for the initiative were not submitted by the deadline.
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Footnotes
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State of Montana Helena (capital) |
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