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Lawmakers move ballot‑title review back to Attorney General after Supreme Court ruling
Summary
House Bill 1320 would return initiative ballot‑title review to the Attorney General’s office after the Supreme Court found a 2019 statutory transfer inconsistent with Amendment 7; committee members pressed sponsors on substitution authority and timeliness for judicial review.
Representative Ray introduced House Bill 1320 on behalf of sponsors who say the measure restores the pre‑2019 process for reviewing initiative ballot titles.
“This ballot title review in the attorney general's office was set up in 1943 by the legislature and it stayed there until 2019,” Representative Ray said, describing litigation that followed the State Board of Election Commissioners’ refusal to certify a recreational‑marijuana ballot title and subsequent Supreme Court review. Ray and deputy Attorney General Ryan Owlsley told the committee the court’s Armstrong decision held that Amendment 7 limits the…
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