Oregon Air Quality Benchmark Initiative (2020)
| Oregon Air Quality Benchmark Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Environment | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Air Quality Benchmark Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have decreased the lifetime cancer risk level from 50 to 25 in one million and decrease the Hazard Index Number from five to one. [1][2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The certified ballot title would have been as follows:
| “ | Increases state authority over toxic air contaminants, local authority to collect/disclose toxic substance information.[3] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure can be found here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Oregon, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 6 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Signatures for Oregon initiatives must be submitted four months prior to the next regular general election. State law also requires paid signature gatherers to submit any signatures they gather every month.
Moreover, Oregon is one of several states that require a certain number of signatures to accompany an initiative petition application. The signatures of at least 1,000 electors are required to trigger a review by state officials, a period of public commentary, and the drafting of a ballot title. Prior to gathering these initial 1,000 signatures, petitioners must submit the text of the measure, a form disclosing their planned use of paid circulators, and a form designating up to three chief petitioners. The 1,000 preliminary signatures count toward the final total required.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 112,020 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 2, 2020.
In Oregon, signatures are verified using a random sample method. If a first round of signatures is submitted at least 165 days before an election and contains raw, unverified signatures at least equal to the minimum requirement, but verification shows that not enough of the submitted signatures are valid, additional signatures can be submitted prior to the final deadline.
Details about this initiative
- The initiative was filed by Margaret Ngai and Douglas Moore on November 7, 2019.[2]
- The initiative was not cleared for circulation.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Complete Text of Initiative #56," accessed November 8, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Oregon Secretary of State, "Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division Initiative, Referendum, and Referral Search for 2020," accessed November 8, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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