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South Dakota Ability to Buy, Sell, or Rent Any Property or Service Initiative (2020)

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South Dakota Buying, Selling, and Renting Property or Services Initiative
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Election date
November 3, 2020
Topic
Property
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
Citizens

The South Dakota Buying, Selling, and Renting Property or Services Initiative was not on the ballot in South Dakota as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.

Measure design

The measure would have amended the state constitution to allow people 18 years old and older to buy, sell, or rent any property or service to a willing person age 18 years old or older. The measure would have prohibited the state from enforcing any federal law that violated the amendment.[1] Proponents filed two similar versions of the initiative.

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed ballot titles for the different versions are below:[1][2]

Version #1 ballot title
“ An initiated amendment to the South Dakota Constitution allowing people to buy, sell, or rent any property or service.[3] ”
Version #2 ballot title
“ An amendment to the South Dakota Constitution allowing people to buy, sell, or rent any property or service.[3] ”

Ballot summary

The ballot explanations for the different versions are below:[1][2]

Full text

The full texts for the different versions are available below.


Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in South Dakota

The state process

In South Dakota, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election. Signatures must be submitted by the first Tuesday of May during a general election year.

The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2020 ballot:

Once the signatures have been gathered and filed, the secretary of state verifies the signatures using a random sample method.

Details about this initiative

  • The attorney general's statement for Version #1 was delivered to South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs on March 16, 2018.[1]
  • The attorney general's statement for Version #2 was delivered to South Dakota Secretary of State Steve Barnett on March 12, 2019.[2]
  • Proponents did not submit the required number of valid signatures by the deadline, therefore the measure did not secure a place on the 2020 ballot.

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 South Dakota Secretary of State, "Attorney General's Statement (Version #1)," accessed November 25, 2018
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 South Dakota Secretary of State, "Attorney General's Statement (version #2)," accessed August 19, 2019
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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