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Utah Term Limits for State Legislators and Executive Officers Initiative (2020)
| Utah Term Limits for State Legislators and Executive Officers Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Term limits | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Utah Term Limits for State Legislators and Executive Officers Initiative was not on the ballot in Utah as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
This initiative would have established term limits of 12 consecutive years for state legislators and eight consecutive years for executive officers (governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state auditor, and state treasurer).[1]
Text of measure
The full text of the initiative can be found here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Utah, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the number of active voters as of January 1 of the year following the last regular general election. Petition circulation must be distributed so that signature equal to 8 percent of the active voters are collected from each of at least 26 of the 29 Utah State Senate districts. State law establishes a final signature deadline for direct initiated state statutes as either 316 days after the initial initiative application was filed or February 15 of the election year, whichever is earlier.[2] Moreover, signature petition sheet packets for direct initiatives must be submitted to county clerks on a rolling basis no more than 30 days after the first signature is added to the packet.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 115,869 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was February 18, 2020. Each initiative also has an initiative-specific deadline 316 days following the initial application.
Each signature is verified by the county clerks in the county where the signature was collected. After verification, the petition forms are delivered to the lieutenant governor, who counts the total number of certified signatures and declares the petition as either sufficient or insufficient.
Details about this initiative
- This initiative was filed on July 22, 2019.[1]
- As of January 28, 2020, sponsors of the initiative had submitted 858 valid signatures.[3]
- Sponsors did not collect enough valid signatures by the February 18 deadline.[3]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vote.Utah.gov, "Unite for Term Limits application and full text," accessed December 18, 2019
- ↑ If the 15th is a holiday, the deadline is the following business day
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vote.Utah.Gov, "Initiatives and Referenda," accessed January 13, 2020
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