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The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which had been certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024 United States elections. Those which did not make on the ballot are included on the page but their status is noted that they did not appear on the ballot.
Since the 1970s, initiative summaries were given to voters to avoid confusion over technical, legal language. However, in the lead-up to the 2024 election, the summary of the ballot initiative was a flashpoint for political opposition and legal action. [53] The citizen-initiated petition itself contained a summary, written by the proponents.
Public submissions on the Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 Bill closed on 31 May 2024. The Governance and Administration Committee received approximately 24,500 submissions on the bill. Hearings were held in-person and via Zoom in Wellington on 24 and 26 June 2024, and in Auckland on 1 July.
A handful of cities in Iowa would be required to disband their citizen police review boards under a bill advancing in the Iowa Legislature. Senate File 2325 states that cities with civil service ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is weighing ways to provide temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are married to American citizens, three sources ...
The bill proposed amending the Immigration and Nationality Act's Section 245, which concerns adjustment of status—the process by which a noncitizen already in the United States can acquire lawful permanent residency, commonly known as "green card" status, without having to travel abroad and receive an immigrant visa from a US consular post ...
With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...
The provisions of the bill granting pathways to permanent residence are less expansive than the US Citizenship Act of 2021, however, Democrats have indicated they are more likely to progress this bill, along with the accompanying Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 since it is more likely to receive the 10 Republican votes needed in the ...