Sentences with phrase «initiative petition»
An "initiative petition" is a way for ordinary citizens to propose a law directly to the government. It involves collecting signatures from fellow citizens who support the idea, and if enough signatures are gathered, the proposed law will be considered for adoption. Full definition
The congressman declined to take a position on OU President David Boren's recently submitted initiative petition for a penny sales tax to fund education.
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The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the confinement of egg - laying hens in battery cages.
In 2010, Missouri passed Proposition B, a voter - approved initiative petition that limited the number of breeding dogs a business can own.
The Humane Society of the United States, along with a coalition of local and national animal welfare organizations and nearly 2,500 Ohio residents, yesterday filed a ballot initiative petition with the Ohio Attorney General to stop systemic suffering of dogs in puppy mills, defined as inhumane commercial breeding facilities that disregard the health and well - being of dogs.
U.S. Chamber supports constitutional challenge to Massachusetts initiative petition that would tie a tax increase to specific expenditures
But she said efforts to gather the minimum 150,642 valid signatures by July 5 have been hampered by some new Arizona laws governing the circulation of initiative petitions and...
This is the case over whether the initiative petition for the top - two open primary violates the single - subject rule.
A Nevada parents» group has filed an initiative petition that aims to put a school - choice plan that includes private schools before the legislature.
A Nevada teachers» union has collected enough signatures on an initiative petition to force state lawmakers next year to consider taxing corporate profits to help pay for education.
Clergy organizing the ballot initiative (many from African - American churches) received a «legal notice» in the mail from MECO, threatening criminal sanctions for «the collection of signatures for an initiative petition.»
«The sole issue in the case, at this stage, was whether the initiative petition would be barred from the ballot under the Massachusetts Constitution.
On Monday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in Schulman v. Attorney General, gave the green light to an initiative petition that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
«Supporters of gay marriage sought to keep the measure off the ballot by claiming that it violated a provision of the state constitution saying that there can be no initiative petition that seeks «reversal of a judicial decision.»
The initiative petition was submitted to the North Dakota Secretary of State on June 6, 2013.