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Oregon Tax on Private Casinos for Schools and Homelessness Initiative (2020)
| Oregon Tax on Private Casinos for Schools and Homelessness Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Gambling and Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Tax on Private Casinos for Schools and Homelessness Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have enacted a 25% tax on gross revenues of privately incorporated casinos. The revenue from this tax would have been split evenly between the Oregon State Lottery Fund and the Oregon Taxpaying Casino Fund, which would be created by this law. This fund would have allocated tax revenue to programs servicing the homeless, economic development and educational financing for Indian tribes, the city where the casino is incorporated, the Oregon State Police Account, and the Problem Gambling Treatment Fund.[1][2]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure can be found here.[1]
Path to the ballot
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 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 112,020 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 2, 2020.
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
- Bruce Studer and Matt Rossman filed this initiative with the state consitutional amendment that would make this statute possible—the Oregon Private Taxpaying Casino Authorization and Tax Amendment Initiative—on January 30, 2020.[2]
- The initiative was not cleared for circulation.[2]
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Footnotes
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