North Dakota Fiscal Impact Initiatives on General Election Ballot Amendment (2016)
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| Origin | North Dakota legislature |
| Topic | Elections and campaigns issues |
| Status | Not on the ballot |
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The North Dakota Fiscal Impact Initiatives on General Election Ballot Amendment did not make the November 8, 2016 ballot in North Dakota as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.
The measure would have required initiatives with estimated fiscal impacts of $20 million or more to be placed on a general election ballot.[1]
In the North Dakota Legislature, the amendment was titled House Concurrent Resolution No. 3047.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article III, North Dakota Constitution
The proposed amendment would have amended Section 2 of Article III of the North Dakota Constitution. The following underlined text would have been added and struck-through text would have been deleted by the measure's approval:[1]
measure available to the public. If the legislative council determines the fiscal impact of an initiated measure will be twenty million dollars or more during the next full biennium after the measure is due to become effective and the secretary of state determines the petition includes the required number of signatures and qualifies to be placed on the ballot as provided under this article, the secretary of state shall place the measure on the next general election ballot.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the North Dakota Constitution
A simple majority vote in both chambers of the North Dakota Legislature would have been required to refer this amendment to the ballot. House Concurrent Resolution No. 3047 was introduced into the legislature on February 23, 2015. The bill failed on second reading by a 20-to-27 vote in the Senate on April 24, 2015.[3]
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 North Dakota Legislature, "House Concurrent Resolution No. 3047," accessed March 25, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
- ↑ North Dakota Legislature, "Bill Actions for HCR 3047," accessed March 25, 2015
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