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Oregon Public Employee Union Spending Reporting Initiative (2018)
| Oregon Public Employee Union Spending Reporting Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Labor and unions | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Public Employee Union Spending Reporting Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required all public employee labor unions to report annually to the Oregon secretary of state information about the total amount of dues collected by the organization and details about how and where the dues are spent. Specifically, the measure would have required information about money spent on political activities, lobbying, collective bargaining, union officer salaries, and donations made by a government union to nonprofit organizations. The measure defined these organizations as those that are exempt from taxation under 501(c) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
Text of measure
The full text of the measure can be viewed here.
Path to the ballot
Glenn Schworak and James Mitchell filed the proposal with the Oregon secretary of state on September 15, 2017.[1] Oregon requires that 1,000 signatures be submitted before a ballot title is drafted.
Petitioners are required to collect 88,184 valid signatures to get their initiated state statute on the ballot. Signatures for initiatives must be submitted four months prior to the election on November 6, 2018, which was around July 6, 2018.
The measure was approved for signature gathering on May 24, 2018.
Proponents of the measure did not submit signatures before the signature deadline.[2]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Initiative 33," accessed September 22, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, Telephone communication with Oregon Secretary of State's office, July 9, 2018.
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