Oregon Measure 66, Lottery Revenues for Parks and Conservation Initiative (1998)

Oregon Measure 66
Election date November 3, 1998
Topic Gambling policy and Parks, land, and natural area conservation
Status Approved
Type Initiated constitutional amendment	Origin Citizens

Oregon Measure 66 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Oregon on November 3, 1998. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported allocating fifteen percent of lottery revenues to parks, beaches, salmon protection, wildlife habitat restoration, and watershed protection.

A "no" vote opposed allocating fifteen percent of lottery revenues to parks, beaches, salmon protection, wildlife habitat restoration, and watershed protection.

Election results

Oregon Measure 66
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		742,038	67.20%
No		362,247	32.80%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Measure 66 was as follows:

“

AMENDS CONSTITUTION: DEDICATES SOME LOTTERY FUNDING TO PARKS, BEACHES; HABITAT, WATERSHED PROTECTION RESULT OF "YES” VOTE: “Yes” vote dedicates 15 percent lottery funding to parks, beaches; salmon, wildlife habitat, watershed protection. RESULT OF “NO” VOTE: “No” vote retains system restricting state lottery funding to job creation, economic development, public education. SUMMARY: Amends constitution. State lottery proceeds currently limited to job creation, economic development, public education. Measure dedicates 15 percent of net lottery proceeds to new fund for parks, beaches; salmon, wildlife habitat, watershed protection. Dedicates half of fund to create, maintain state parks, ocean shores, public beach access areas, historic sites, recreation areas. Dedicates other half for single agency to administer funds to protect native salmon, wildlife habitat, watersheds, using at least 65 percent for capital expenditures. Requires biennial audits, voter renewal in 2014. Other provisions. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL IMPACT: An estimated $46.2 million of state lottery proceeds will be directed each year to parks and natural resources until the year 2014, when there is an automatic revote. Currently the Oregon legislature allocates those funds to a variety of programs including, but not limited to, education, economic and community development, natural resources and transportation. This estimate is based on 1999-2001 projections of lottery proceeds.

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Signature requirements for ballot measures in Oregon

An initiated constitutional amendment is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends a state's constitution. Eighteen (18) states allow citizens to initiate constitutional amendments.

In Oregon, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval unless the initiative proposes changing vote requirements, then the initiative must be approved by the same supermajority requirement as proposed by the measure.

See also

1998 Measures

• 1998 Measures
• Gambling policy on the ballot
• Parks on the ballot
• land on the ballot
• and natural area conservation on the ballot
• 1998 legislative sessions

Oregon

• Oregon ballot measures
• Oregon ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Oregon Voter Guide (1998)