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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4499 
To provide that the voters of the United States be given the right, through 
advisory voter initiative, to propose the enactment and repeal of Federal 
laws in a national election. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2010 
Mr. HOEKSTRA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide that the voters of the United States be given 
the right, through advisory voter initiative, to propose 
the enactment and repeal of Federal laws in a national 
election. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Advisory 
Voter Initiative Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. 
The people shall have the right— 
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(1) to propose any law which the Congress has 
authority to pass; and 
(2) to propose the repeal of any provision of law 
passed by the Congress which has become law. 
SEC. 3. PETITION PROCEDURE. 
A petition proposing the enactment of a law, or the 
repeal of a provision of law, shall be submitted to an offi-
cer of the United States whom the Congress shall des-
ignate by law. Each petition shall contain the text of the 
proposed law, or, in the case of a repeal, the text of the 
provision of law proposed to be repealed. Each petition 
shall be signed by at least 3 percent of the whole number 
of people, in each of at least 10 States, who voted in the 
last presidential election before the date on which the peti-
tion is submitted. The total number of signatures on such 
petition shall be at least 3 percent of the whole number 
of people, from all of the several States, who voted in that 
election. All signatures shall be collected during the 18- 
month period ending on the date on which the petition 
is submitted. 
SEC. 4. BALLOT PROCEDURE. 
Not later than 90 days after a petition is submitted 
under section 3, the officer to whom the petition is sub-
mitted shall determine the validity of the signatures on 
the petition. If the petition contains the required number 
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of valid signatures, the officer shall certify the petition and 
shall direct the chief executive officer of each State to 
place a copy of the proposed law, or provision of law pro-
posed to be repealed on the ballot in the first House of 
Representatives election (other than an election to fill a 
vacancy) which is held at least 120 days after such certifi-
cation. The Congress shall by law— 
(1) establish procedures for the preparation and 
submission of petitions and for the validation of pe-
tition signatures; and 
(2) prescribe the manner in which the results of 
the voting conducted under this Act shall be 
ascertained and declared. 
SEC. 5. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. 
If a law or repeal proposed under this Act receives 
a majority of the votes cast in 3⁄5 of the several States, 
the proposed law or repeal shall be introduced in the 
House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and in the Senate by the President pro 
tempore of the Senate on the first day of the first session 
of the Congress following the vote. 
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SEC. 6. VOTER QUALIFICATIONS. 
The people in each State voting under this Act shall 
have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most 
numerous branch of the State legislature. 
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