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The debate on the initiative petition bills began Monday afternoon in the state Senate, with bill sponsor Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman introducing a few changes to the legislation seeking to change ...
The Missouri House passed a bill raising the threshold to pass citizen-led initiative petitions with "ballot candy," sending it back to the Senate.
Missouri Republicans have for years attacked the state’s initiative petition process, a more-than-100-year-old mechanism that requires an expensive and time-consuming signature-gathering ...
2024 Missouri Constitutional Amendment 3, also known as the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, was a constitutional amendment that appeared on the ballot on November 5, 2024. The initiative amended the Constitution of Missouri to legalize abortion in Missouri until fetal viability. [1] The amendment narrowly passed. [2]
A woman holds a sign urging Missourians not to sign an abortion initiative petition at the Midwest March for Life in May at the Missouri State Capitol. The petition was later turned in and the ...
The CIR is a benchmark in the initiative reform and public engagement fields. Each state has individual requirements to qualify initiatives for the ballot. Generally, all 24 states and the District of Columbia follow steps similar to: File a proposed petition with a designated state official
O’Laughlin said that the initiative petition proposal “in all reality is dead for this year.” Eigel said the Freedom Caucus’s approach pushed the initiative petition proposal onto the floor.
Missouri lawmakers will once again consider changes to the initiative petition process in the new year. Several pieces of legislation aimed at altering the process through which voters can approve ...