Oregon Campaign Finance Limits Initiative (2022)

Oregon Campaign Finance Limits Initiative
Election date November 8, 2022
Topic Campaign finance
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens

The Oregon Campaign Finance Limits Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.

Sponsors filed three versions of the initiative. The initiative would have limited campaign finance contributions from individuals, candidate or multicandidate committees, political parties, legislative caucus committees, and membership organizations (e.g. unions). It would have also required campaigns to disclose the top donors in political ads and satellite spending groups to disclose their donors. It would have also created a public campaign finance system that would support candidates who agree to accept donations of $250 or less per person.

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the versions of the initiative are listed below:

• Initiative #46
• Initiative #47
• Initiative #52
• Initiative #53

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Oregon

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 2022 ballot:

• Signatures: 112,020 valid signatures were required.
• Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 8, 2022.

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

• Two versions of the initiative were filed on December 17, 2021, by Kenya Juarez and Samantha Gladu. Two additional versions were filed by Samantha Gladu on February 17, 2022.
• The initiative did not make the ballot.

See also

2022 measures

• 2022 ballot measures
• Campaign finance on the ballot
• 2022 petition deadlines

Oregon

• Oregon ballot measures
• Oregon initiative laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls
• Ballot measure signature costs

External links

• Initiative #46
• Initiative #47
• Initiative #52
• Initiative #53