Arkansas Environmental Preservation Amendment (2026)
| Arkansas Environmental Preservation Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2026 | |
| Topic Pollution, waste, and recycling policy | |
| Status Pending official review | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arkansas Environmental Preservation Amendment may appear on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026.
This measure would provide for fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment and allow the state legislature to make and implement laws to preserve it.[1]
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Arkansas, 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 most recent gubernatorial election. Proponents must collect signatures equaling at least half of the designated percentage of gubernatorial votes in at least 50 of the state's counties. Signatures remain valid until the date of the next general election following the certification of ballot language. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2026 ballot:
- Signatures: 90,704 valid signatures
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures is July 3, 2026.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough signatures were submitted in a petition, the initiative is put on the ballot. If a petition fails to meet the signature requirement, but the petition has at least 75 percent of the valid signatures needed, petitioners have 30 days to collect additional signatures or demonstrate that rejected signatures are valid.
Details about this initiative
- October 3, 2025: The attorney general, Tim Griffin, rejected the initial proposal under Opinion No. 2025-98, with the ballot title "The Amendment to Keep Arkansas Natural."[2]
- November 4, 2025: The attorney general rejected the proposal again with the new title "The Clean and Healthy Natural Environment Amendment."[1]
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