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Oregon Relief from Penalties for Being Open Initiative (2022)
| Oregon Relief from Penalties for Being Open Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Civil and criminal trials | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Relief from Penalties for Being Open Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
The initiative would have allowed individuals and businesses to seek relief in court from penalties enforced for violating government decrees after November 17, 2020, related to COVID-19. A "penalty for being open" was defined in the text as, "any fine, penalty, fee, charge, cost, judgment, citation, proposed or actual revocation of license, proposed or actual revocation of registration, proposed or actual suspension of any license, registration or privilege, or other form of punishment or punitive sanction." On November 17, 2020, Governor Kate Brown (D) issued an executive order to enact a "freeze period" in the reopening process that reinstated certain restrictions on gatherings and businesses.[1]
Text of measure
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The full text of the different versions of the initiative are below:
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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
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State of Oregon Salem (capital) |
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