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Committee approves bill requiring fiscal sources and advertising rules for citizen initiatives
Summary
Senate Bill 73, as amended, would require backers of citizen initiatives to identify funding sources for initiative costs above statutory thresholds and applies advertising/notice requirements; the committee passed the third substitute 6–3.
Senator Fillmore presented third substitute Senate Bill 73, describing it as two principal changes: requiring initiative backers to identify a funding source for implementation costs that exceed thresholds used in legislative budgeting, and applying advertising/notice standards consistent with constitutional requirements the courts have identified.
"It simply requires that when initiatives are on the ballot... the backers of…
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