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Statewide Initiatives

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Statewide initiatives -- Signature requirements -- Submission to the Legislature or to a vote of the people.

Statewide initiative process -- Application procedures -- Time to gather signatures -- Grounds for rejection.

Initial fiscal impact estimate -- Preparation of estimate -- Challenge to estimate.

Posting initiative information.

Form of initiative petition and signature sheets.

Circulation requirements -- Lieutenant governor to provide sponsors with materials.

Public hearings to be held before initiative petitions are circulated -- Changes to an initiative and initial fiscal impact estimate.

Obtaining signatures -- Verification -- Removal of signature.

Submitting the initiative petition -- Certification of signatures by the county clerks -- Transfer to lieutenant governor.

Provisions relating only to process for submitting an initiative to the Legislature for approval or rejection.

Verification of petition signatures.

Evaluation by the lieutenant governor.

Disposition of initiative petitions by the Legislature.

Ballot title -- Duties of lieutenant governor and Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel.

Form of ballot -- Manner of voting.

Return and canvass -- Conflicting measures -- Law effective on proclamation.

Effective date.

Misconduct of electors and officers -- Penalty.

Fiscal review -- Repeal, amendment, or resubmission.