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Nebraska Prohibit Abortion Procedures and Drugs Initiative (2024)
| Nebraska Prohibit Abortion Procedures and Drugs Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Abortion | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Nebraska Prohibit Abortion Procedures and Drugs Initiative was not on the ballot in Nebraska as an initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
The initiative would have prohibited abortion procedures and drugs except in cases to preserve the life of the mother. A violation of the law would have been a Class IIA felony. No woman who receives an abortion would have been liable for the violation of the law.[1][2]
Additional information on abortion-related ballot measures
In 2024, 11 statewide ballot measures related to abortion were certified in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota for the general election ballot on November 5. This was the most on record for a single year.
- You can find a list of 2024's certified and proposed measures here: 2024 abortion-related ballot measures and state context.
- Information on abortion-related ballot measures since 1970 is available here: History of abortion ballot measures.
Text of measure
Object statement
The object statement on the circulating petition was:[1]
| “ | An initiative to ban surgical and pharmaceutical abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother.[3] | ” |
Full text
- The full text of the initiative is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Nebraska, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 7 percent of registered voters as of the deadline for filing signatures. Because of the unique signature requirement based on registered voters, Nebraska is also the only state where petition sponsors cannot know the exact number of signatures required until they are submitted. Nebraska law also features a distribution requirement mandating that petitions contain signatures from 5 percent of the registered voters in each of two-fifths (38) of Nebraska's 93 counties.
Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the next general election. Signatures do not roll over; they become invalid after the next general election at least four months after the initial initiative application filing. Depending on when the initiative application is filed, petitioners can have up to just under two years to circulate petitions.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 86,426
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 3, 2024.
Signatures are submitted to the secretary of state. The secretary of state sends the appropriate signature petitions to each county, where county election officials verify the signatures. Upon receiving the signatures back from county officials, the secretary of state determines whether or not the requirements were met.
Details about this initiative
- The initiative was filed on April 6, 2023, by Robert W. Smith.[2]
- The campaign did not submit the required number of sigantures by the deadline.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nebraska Secretary of State's Office, "Full text," accessed April 21, 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nebraska Secretary of State's Office, "Current Petitions in Circulation," accessed January 6, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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