Opinion ID: 836622
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Heading: amends constitution: revises initiative and referendum processes

Text: RESULT OF YES VOTE: Yes vote provides annual initiative elections, changes signature requirements, limits regulation of signature gatherers. RESULT OF NO VOTE: No vote retains the present constitutional and statutory controls on initiative and referendum. SUMMARY: Amends Constitution. Changes number of required signatures on petition, permits two year minimum to gather signatures. Restricts legislature's referral or enactment of changes in initiative process, restricts laws controlling petition circulation, who may circulate, payment of circulators. Committee, 40 percent chosen by chief petitioner, drafts statewide ballot titles; if challenged, Supreme Court must choose between petitioner's, committee's, or challenger's ballot title. Elections held each year. For some elections, removes voter turnout requirement on local measures. Prohibits publicly funded challenges to initiative approved laws. Other provisions. Ballot title certified as modified. This opinion shall become effective in accordance with ORAP 11.30(10).