Sentences with phrase «veto referendum»

But public school parents and educators fought back, gathering enough signatures to put a «veto referendum» on the ballot for voters to decide.

Arizona law allows for a «veto referendum» on laws passed by the legislature if opponents gather the requisite signatures to put the issue on the ballot.

The measure is an attempt to use California's veto referendum process to nullify the California State Senate redistricting plan approved by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

For an initiated state statute or veto referendum, signatures equal to 5 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election are required.

On October 27, 2017, Kyle Bailey, campaign manager for the Maine Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, sent an email message to ranked - choice voting supporters announcing that the group had filed the paperwork to pursue a veto referendum in opposition to LD 1646: «We will have 90 days to collect 61,123 valid signatures to put a People's Veto on the June 2018 ballot.

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Both houses of the Maine State Legislature voted Wednesday to overturn Gov. Paul LePage's (R.) veto of marijuana legalization legislation, putting the state on the path to finally implementing a 2016 referendum calling for legal recreational weed.

[2] Some commentators suggest that he never expected to have to deliver the referendum thinking that it would be vetoed...

[2] Some commentators suggest that he never expected to have to deliver the referendum thinking that it would be vetoed by Liberal Democrats in coalition or else be voted down by the opposition [3]; certainly it was a referendum that he never expected to lose.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

The Prime Minister is also the only one of the three main party leaders committed to giving the British people an in - out referendum on membership of a reformed EU, a Downing Street spokesman has said, as backbenchers urged David Cameron to adopt new veto powers.

Nicola Sturgeon's call for a Scottish veto on Britain leaving Europe is underpinned by a radical agenda: to hijack the constitutional crisis triggered by the independence referendum and turn Britain into a federalised state.

On June 29, 2015, the court ruled 5 - 4 in favor of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, finding that «redistricting is a legislative function, to be performed in accordance with the state's prescriptions for lawmaking, which may include the referendum and the governor's veto.»

The governor of Vermont has vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first to legalize marijuana through legislation rather than a ballot referendum.

Others have proposed new powers for the electorate to trigger an election or referendum and veto bills passing through parliament.

«He knew by going to the end, even if we overrode the veto today, it would not be on the referendum this November,» he said.

NJ Governor Chris Christie Calls for Voter Referendum on Same - Sex Marriage, Says He Would Veto Bill

But former Conservative leader Lord Howard said the idea of effectively giving Parliament a veto over Brexit - which the public voted for in a 2016 referendum - was «fundamentally misconceived».

6 - Say you will hold a referendum to repeal the Lisbon Treaty and re-install our rebates and veto's, regardless of what Labour has decided because no government has a mandate to ignore the people and their sovereignty.

The governor says he plans to veto the ability to go to referendum in November of non-election years.