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Oregon Rules for Declaring an Emergency to Enact Laws Initiative (2022)
| Oregon Rules for Declaring an Emergency to Enact Laws 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 Rules for Declaring an Emergency to Enact Laws Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The initiative would have amended the Oregon Constitution to require a two-thirds (66.67 percent) supermajority vote to declare a state of emergency and enact laws in response to the declaration[1][2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The certified ballot title for this measure would have been:[3]
| “ | Amends Constitution: Requires two-thirds supermajority for legislature to declare emergency that accelerates law’s effective date; exceptions
Result of 'No' Vote: 'No' vote retains existing requirement of a simple majority for legislative emergency declaration that makes law effective earlier than ninety days after legislative session ends.[4] |
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Ballot summary
The certified ballot summary for this measure would have been:[3]
| “ | Currently, the Oregon Constitution provides that no law takes effect until ninety days from the end of the session at which it was passed, unless an emergency has been declared in the preamble or body of the law. The legislature may not declare an emergency in any act regulating taxation or tax exemptions. Laws, including budget appropriations, passed without an accompanying emergency declaration may be subject to voter referendum to affirm, revise or repeal. Currently, such emergency declarations may be adopted by majority vote of legislature. Measure would require two-thirds supermajority in both chambers of legislature to adopt emergency declaration; exception in some circumstances for bills passed in direct response to “catastrophic disasters” under Article X-A of Constitution, and for certain appropriation bills.[4] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
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
- The initiative was filed on March 1, 2019, by Mike Nearman, Bill Post, and Gary Leif.[2]
- The initiative was cleared to gather signatures on July 17, 2020.[2]
- The initiative did not submit the required number of signatures.[5]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Complete Text of Initiative 2022-001," accessed July 20, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2022 Initiatives, Referendums and Referrals, "Petition 2022-001," accessed July 20, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oregon Secretary of State, "Attorney General letter," accessed July 23, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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