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Oregon Changes to Legislative Procedures Initiative (2022)
| Oregon Changes to Legislative Procedures Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic State legislatures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Changes to Legislative Procedures Initiative (Initiative #19-26) was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The sponsors filed several versions of the initiative that would have amended the Oregon Constitution to enact changes to legislative procedures. Some of the changes included:[1]
- lowering the vote requirement from two-thirds (66.67%) vote to a simple majority for suspending the rule that requires a section by section reading of the bill before final passage;
- not counting days when a quorum call fails towards the total number of legislative days in a session; and
- establishes consequences for legislators who are absent from a legislative day without an excuse.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of each version is below:
- Initiative #19
- Initiative #20
- Initiative #21
- Initiative #22
- Initiative #23
- Initiative #24
- Initiative #25
- Initiative #26
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 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 149,360 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
- Andrea Kennedy-Smith and Reed Scott-Schwalbach filed the initiatives on May 6, 2021.[1]
- On September 23, 2021, the sponsors withdrew Initiative #22.[1]
- The initiatives did not qualify for the ballot.[1]
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Footnotes
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