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In the politics of the United States, the process of initiatives and referendums allow citizens of many U.S. states [1] to place legislation on the ballot for a referendum or popular vote, either enacting new legislation, or voting down existing legislation.
State senators Joseph Robach, Dale Volker, and Michael Ranzenhofer, all Republicans from western New York, proposed a nonbinding referendum to gauge support for dividing the state in November 2009. [94] The referendum was again proposed by Stephen Hawley in 2013 and 2015, with members of the Long Island delegation to the state legislature also ...
Voter referendum: An initiative to remove the MCAS test as requirement to graduate high school. [131] Voter referendum: An initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers. [132] Voter referendum: An initiative to authorize the state auditor to audit the state legislature, and remove some existing regulations regarding the auditing ...
For more than a century, the public has used the initiative and referendum process to change state law and the Constitution itself. Indeed, records show the Oklahoma Constitution — has been ...
In 2024, 326 bills related to initiative, referendum and recall were introduced in state legislatures and 33 of the bills were enacted (10.12%), including the four ballot measures to be decided on ...
Republican lawmakers in more than 30 states have introduced or passed more than 100 bills to either restrict or regulate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the current legislative ...
The following is a list of ballot measures (also known as referendums, ballot questions, proposals, initiatives, propositions and proposals) which were on the ballot for the 2022 United States elections. Some were held prior to the federal elections on November 8.
Our state reps and state senators are the ones who make the decisions. There is a process where that can end up on the ballot. But I do believe that people should have voices in government.