A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment:
✔ a procedure available in 48 states.
✔ no petition signatures necessary.
✔ one friendly legislative sponsor per.
✔ a bill (LRCA) putting to the ballot/electorate
✔ a single, unconvoluted, unadulterable question
✔ to gauge/pursue certain legislative policy-making.
…”Should the state of XYZ…”
✔ passage through its requisite committees
✔ passage through both chambers of state legislature. ☄
✔ passage of ‘the bill’ (question) by governors sig.
✔ referral to State SOS offices or electoral authority
✔ for transmittal to General Election ballots
….”Should the state of XYZ…” (check yes)
✔ cannabis will be the most popular vote-getter.
✔ result: a recommendation to lawmakers to “do this” ☎
***this process is NOT an ‘initiative’ ‘referendum’ etc***
(☄ some states at 2/3+ majority in ‘first year attempt)
(☎ vote directive is not necessarily binding in all cases)
*certain details and restrictions apply. particulars of the procedure vary by state.
learn more:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Legislatively-referred_constitutional_amendment
Originally Posted at Free the Leaf, August 20, 2012