Oregon Biennial Legislative Session Initiative (2020)
| Oregon Biennial Legislative Session Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic State legislatures measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Biennial Legislative Session Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have amended sections 6 and 10 of Article III and sections 5 and 14 of Article IV of the Oregon Constitution to change the legislative session from annual to biennial. It would also have required regular sessions to begin on the day in odd-numbered years determined by law and removed the provision allowing for 35-calendar-day sessions in even-numbered years.[1][2]
Text of measure
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 constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 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 requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 149,360 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
- Jeff Kropf and Mike Pihl filed the iniative petition on February 20, 2020.[3]
- The initiative was not cleared for circulation.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Complete Text of Initiative #67," accessed February 24, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oregon Secretary of State, "Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division Initiative, Referendum, and Referral Search for 2020," accessed February 24, 2020
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Overview of I-67," accessed February 24, 2020
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