Washington Compliance with Federal Immigration Agency Initiative (2018)
| Washington Compliance with Federal Immigration Agency Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Immigration | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Compliance with Federal Immigration Agency Initiative was not put on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have withheld state funds for a period of time from municipal governments that obstructed, hindered, or delayed a federal immigration agency in locating, identifying, apprehending, investigating, detaining, transferring, prosecuting, or removing a person who was in the country illegally from the state of Washington.[1]
Ballot title
The following are the ballot titles for the initiatives:[1]
| Initiative Measure No. 906 | |||||
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| Initiative Measure No. 906 concerns withholding state funds from municipalities for obstructing federal immigration efforts.
This measure would require the withholding of all state funds, except funds for public safety and corrections, from any municipality that willfully obstructs, hinders, or delays certain federal efforts to enforce immigration laws. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ][2] | |||||
| Initiative Measure No. 920 | |||||
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| Initiative Measure No. 920 concerns state funding for municipalities.
This measure would require a minimum one-year suspension of all state fund expenditures to a municipality, or agency of a municipality, that interferes with a federal immigration agency’s activity involving an illegal alien. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ][2] | |||||
Ballot summary
The following are the ballot summaries for the initiatives:[1]
| Initiative Measure No. 906 | |||||
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| This measure proposes that all state funds, except funds for public safety and corrections, must be suspended for a minimum of forty-five consecutive days to a municipality that willfully obstructs, hinders, or delays a federal immigration agency in locating, identifying, apprehending, investigating, detaining, transferring, prosecuting, or removing an illegal alien in Washington. The suspension of funds would take effect the date a federal immigration agency proves the occurrences to a court with sufficient evidence.[2] | |||||
| Initiative Measure No. 920 | |||||
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| This measure would require a suspension, for a minimum of 365 consecutive days, of all state fund expenditures to a municipality, or an agency of a municipality, that willfully obstructs, hinders, or delays a federal immigration agency in locating, identifying, apprehending, investigating, detaining, transferring, prosecuting, or removing an illegal alien in the state of Washington. The suspension would begin once a federal immigration agency proves to a court that willful obstruction, hindrance, or delay occurred.[2] | |||||
Path to the ballot
To make the 2018 ballot, proponents of Initiatives to the Legislature were required to submit at least 259,622 valid signatures by December 29, 2017.[3] If certified, initiatives are sent to the Washington House of Representatives and Washington State Senate for consideration. The legislature chooses whether to enact the measure, send it to the 2018 ballot alone, or send it to the ballot alongside an alternative proposition.
Mario Lotmore and Georgene Faries filed multiple versions of the initiative with the secretary of state's office in 2017. The first version of the initiative received a ballot title and summary on March 23, 2017.[1]
Proponents of the initiative did not submit signatures to the secretary of state's office by the December 29, 2017, deadline and the measure was not put on the ballot.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Washington Secretary of State, "Proposed Initiatives to the Legislature - 2017," accessed May 1, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar - 2017," accessed May 1, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, "Telephone correspondence with the Washington secretary of state's office," January 2, 2018
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