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Committee advances bill to lower protest-petition threshold for municipal lease-purchase agreements
Summary
The Committee on Local Government advanced HB 26-22, which replaces the existing '5% of votes for secretary of state' protest-petition metric with a 3% threshold of registered voters for lease-purchase agreements by municipalities, aiming to make signature targets precisely calculable; the bill moved out of committee unanimously and was placed on the House consent agenda.
The Committee on Local Government on Feb. 11 advanced House Bill 26-22, which changes how voters can force a special election on municipal lease-purchase agreements. The bill replaces an older standard—computed as 5% of those who voted for secretary of state in the last general election—with a flat 3% of registered voters in the affected municipality.
Mister Revisor told the committee the measure applies when a county, school district or community college proposes a lease-purchase to acquire real…
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