Official Top Funders. Call Us Receive Updates Sign up for e-updates. For constitutional amendments, 16 states allow direct initiatives and two allow indirect initiatives. For statutes, 11 states allow direct initiatives for statutes, seven allow indirect initiatives, and two states Utah and Washington allow both direct and indirect initiatives. A referendum sometimes "popular referendum" is a proposal to repeal a law that was previously enacted by the legislature, and that is placed on the ballot by citizen petition.
A total of 24 states permit referendums, most of them states that also permit initiatives. Although the Progressives considered the referendum as important as the initiative, in practice, referendums are fairly rare, especially compared to initiatives.
The chart below lists the 26 states with the power of initiative or referendum, shows what powers— initiated statute , initiated amendment , veto referendum , or some combination—are available to the people in that state. The chart does not differentiate between different types of initiated statute or initiated amendment, such as between direct or indirect initiatives.
Read details about the process in each state by clicking the links in the chart. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion.
Share this page Follow Ballotpedia. What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. To suspend the enactment of the targeted law until the election, the requirement was 53, valid signatures. The signature requirement varies based on what districts are targeted for signature collection. To suspend the enactment of the targeted law until the election, the requirement was , valid signatures. Category : States with initiative and referendum. The initiative and referendum processes allow people to propose laws or amendments to the state Constitution, or adopt or reject a bill passed by the Oregon Legislature.
If chief petitioners gather and submit the required number of signatures, the initiative or referendum is placed on the ballot for voters to adopt or reject.
To qualify an initiative for the next regularly scheduled general election, chief petitioners begin by filing the following form with the Elections Division:. After chief petitioners gather and submit 1, sponsorship signatures, the Elections Division forwards the text of the prospective petition to the attorney general for the drafting of a ballot title, which impartially summarizes the petition and its major effect. Chief petitioners may begin gathering signatures once the ballot title process is complete, they have received written approval to circulate, and have reviewed with circulators the legal requirements and guidelines for circulating an initiative petition.
Signatures must be submitted to the Elections Division for verification no later than four months prior to the date of the next regularly scheduled general election.
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