Effective 5/14/2019 20A-7-201. Statewide initiatives — Signature requirements — Submission to the Legislature or to a vote of the people. (1) (a) A person seeking to have an initiative submitted to the Legislature for approval or rejection shall obtain: (i) legal signatures equal to 4% of the number of active voters in the state on […]
Effective 5/5/2021 20A-7-202. Statewide initiative process — Application procedures — Time to gather signatures — Grounds for rejection. (1) Individuals wishing to circulate an initiative petition shall file an application with the lieutenant governor. (2) The application shall contain: (a) the name and residence address of at least five sponsors of the initiative petition; (b) […]
Effective 6/29/2020 20A-7-202.5. Initial fiscal impact estimate — Preparation of estimate — Challenge to estimate. (1) Within three working days after the day on which the lieutenant governor receives an application for an initiative petition, the lieutenant governor shall submit a copy of the application to the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst. (2) (a) […]
Effective 5/5/2021 20A-7-202.7. Posting initiative information. (1) Within one business day after the day on which the lieutenant governor receives the initial fiscal impact statement under Subsection 20A-7-202.5(3)(a), the lieutenant governor shall post the following information together in a conspicuous place on the lieutenant governor’s website: (a) the initiative petition; (b) the initiative; (c) the […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-203. Manual initiative process — Form of initiative petition and signature sheets. (1) This section applies only to the manual initiative process. (2) (a) Each proposed initiative petition shall be printed in substantially the following form: “INITIATIVE PETITION To the Honorable ____, Lieutenant Governor: We, the undersigned citizens of Utah, respectfully demand that […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-204. Manual initiative process — Circulation requirements — Lieutenant governor to provide sponsors with materials. (1) This section applies only to the manual initiative process. (2) In order to obtain the necessary number of signatures required by this part, the sponsors or an agent of the sponsors shall, after the sponsors receive the […]
Effective 7/1/2021 20A-7-204.1. Public hearings to be held before initiative petitions are circulated — Changes to an initiative and initial fiscal impact estimate. (1) (a) After issuance of the initial fiscal impact estimate by the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst and before circulating initiative petitions for signature statewide, sponsors of the initiative petition shall […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-205. Manual initiative process — Obtaining signatures — Verification — Removal of signature. (1) This section applies only to the manual initiative process. (2) A Utah voter may sign an initiative petition if the voter is a legal voter. (3) (a) The sponsors shall ensure that the individual in whose presence each signature […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-206. Manual initiative process — Submitting the initiative petition — Certification of signatures by the county clerks — Transfer to lieutenant governor. (1) This section applies only to the manual initiative process. (2) (a) The sponsors, or an agent of the sponsors, shall submit a signed and verified initiative packet to the county […]
Effective 5/5/2021 20A-7-206.1. Provisions relating only to process for submitting an initiative to the Legislature for approval or rejection. (1) This section relates only to the process, described in Subsection 20A-7-201(1), for submitting an initiative to the Legislature for approval or rejection. (2) Notwithstanding Section 20A-7-205, in order to qualify an initiative petition for submission […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-206.3. Verification of petition signatures. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Substantially similar name” means: (i) the given name and surname shown on the petition, or both, contain only minor spelling differences when compared to the given name and surname shown on the official register; (ii) the surname shown on the petition […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-207. Evaluation by the lieutenant governor. (1) In relation to the manual initiative process, when the lieutenant governor receives an initiative packet from a county clerk, the lieutenant governor shall record the number of the initiative packet received. (2) The county clerk shall: (a) in relation to the manual initiative process: (i) post […]
Effective 5/14/2019 20A-7-208. Disposition of initiative petitions by the Legislature. (1) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), when the lieutenant governor delivers an initiative petition to the Legislature, the law proposed by that initiative petition shall be either enacted or rejected without change or amendment by the Legislature. (b) The speaker of the House […]
Effective 5/4/2022 20A-7-209. Short title and summary of initiative — Duties of lieutenant governor and Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel. (1) On or before June 5 before the regular general election, the lieutenant governor shall deliver a copy of all of the proposed laws that have qualified for the ballot to the Office […]
Effective 5/14/2019 20A-7-210. Form of ballot — Manner of voting. (1) A county clerk shall ensure that the information described in Subsection 20A-7-209(2)(d) is presented, in the order required, upon the official ballot with, immediately adjacent to the information, the words “For” and “Against,” each word presented with an adjacent square in which the voter […]
Effective 3/3/2022 20A-7-211. Return and canvass — Conflicting measures — Law effective on proclamation. (1) The votes on the law proposed by the initiative petition shall be counted, canvassed, and delivered as provided in Title 20A, Chapter 4, Part 3, Canvassing Returns. (2) After the state board of canvassers completes the canvass, the lieutenant governor […]
Effective 5/14/2019 20A-7-212. Effective date. (1) A proposed law submitted to the Legislature by initiative petition and passed by the Legislature takes effect 60 days after the last day of the session of the Legislature in which the law passed, unless: (a) a later effective date is included in the proposed law; or (b) an […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-213. Misconduct of electors and officers — Penalty. (1) It is unlawful for any person to: (a) sign any name other than the person’s own to an initiative petition or a statement described in Subsection 20A-7-205(4) or 20A-7-216(4); (b) knowingly sign the person’s name more than once for the same measure at one […]
Effective 5/14/2019 20A-7-214. Fiscal review — Repeal, amendment, or resubmission. (1) No later than 60 days after the date of an election in which the voters approve an initiative petition, the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst shall: (a) for each initiative approved by the voters, prepare a final fiscal impact statement, using current financial […]
Effective 1/1/2023 20A-7-215. Electronic initiative process — Form of initiative petition — Circulation requirements — Signature collection. (1) This section applies only to the electronic initiative process. (2) (a) The first screen presented on the approved device shall include the following statement: “This INITIATIVE PETITION is addressed to the Honorable ____, Lieutenant Governor: The citizens […]
