The full House has approved a bill that would delay implementation of any successful ballot initiative to give the Legislature time to make changes to such a voter-approved measure.
The measure now headed to the Senate , A House committee advanced a bill Thursday to push the pause button on any of the ballot initiatives that may pass in November’s election as one lawmaker openly worried about giving citizens too much power to derail the Legislature’s “deliberative“decision-making.
“I’m nervous about the concept of empowering the citizenry to intervene so swiftly and rapidly as to even derail the deliberative and systematic processes of the Legislature,” newly appointed Rep.