Sentences with phrase «place on the ballot amendments»

In these meetings the commission may decide to place on the ballot amendments that relate to state taxation and the state budgetary process.

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Proposition 14 was a proposed constitutional amendment placed on tlie ballot by real - estate leaders, designed to repeal an existing open - housing law and to prevent any future Legislature from passing such a law.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

In Nebraska, the legislature can call a special statewide election to vote on a proposed amendment, but an 80 % vote is required to place any such measures on a special election ballot.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

The three - pronged plan, which the Democratic governor hopes to place on the November 2000 ballot, addresses the stability, equity, and adequacy of school funding in the state through proposed constitutional amendments.

In 2011, Florida lawmakers voted to place «Religious Freedom» amendment on the ballot, asking voters to remove the 125 - year - old ban in the use of public funds for religious institutions (the separation of church and state).

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Last year, an amendment to the Mississippi Constitution that would mandate adequate and efficient funding of public schools — and the ability to seek judicial relief — was placed on the November 2015 ballot.

After it passes the legislature, the amendment question is placed on the next general election ballot, which will be in November 2012.

[After a trial judge ruled on Aug. 4 that the proposed amendments could be placed on the November ballot, the plaintiffs appealed the decision.

This April, the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission placed two proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution on the November ballot.

On Sept. 3, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the trial judge's decision and held that the amendments may not be placed on the ballotOn Sept. 3, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the trial judge's decision and held that the amendments may not be placed on the balloton the ballot.]

The commission will decide by May what amendments are placed on the ballot.

If you're a registered voter in Ohio and you'll be hitting the polls on Tuesday, make sure to check your polling station for volunteers who are circulating petitions to place «The Ohio Puppy Mill Prevention Amendment» on the November 2018 ballot.

In the coming months, volunteers will be circulating petitions to place «The Ohio Puppy Mill Prevention Amendment» on the November 2018 ballot.

That's why her organization is among 15 local, state and national animal - welfare groups behind formation of Stop Puppy Mills Ohio, which aims to place a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution on the November 2018 statewide ballot.

Minnesota is pushing forward with an effort to get a constitutional amendment on the 2014 ballot putting merit selection in place for all state judges.