PHOENIX — Republican legislators are moving to throw another roadblock in the path of people to make their own laws.
SCR 1015, approved Wednesday by the Senate Government Committee, would modify existing constitutional provisions that allow a new statute to be proposed and voted on if they gather the signatures equal to 10% of the people who voted in the last governmental election. Based on 2022 turnout, that would be 255,867 to put a measure on the 2024 election.
Instead, under SCR 1015, initiative proponents would need to get 10% of those who voted in each of the 30 legislative districts. And that effectively would mean that something unpopular in even just one legislative district could not be placed on the ballot, no matter how much support there is in the rest of the state.
