22-24-319. Ballot proposition; when placed on ballot.
(a) The ballot proposition for an initiative shall be placed on the election ballot of the first statewide general election that is held after:
(i) A sufficient number of qualified petitions were filed;
(ii) A legislative session has convened and adjourned; and
(iii) A period of one hundred twenty (120) days has expired since the adjournment of the legislative session. If the attorney general determines that an act of the legislature enacted after the petition is filed is substantially the same as the proposed law, the petition shall be void and the ballot proposition shall not be placed on the election ballot, and the secretary of state shall so notify the committee of applicants.