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Attorney General Mike DeWine
Marijuana-Related
Statute Petition Certified
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today certified the
petition for the Fresh Start Act, a proposed initiated statute.
On June 24th, the Attorney General’s Office received a written petition
for an initiated statute, entitled “Fresh Start Act,” from the group
Responsible Ohio. The submission was certified today as
containing both the necessary 1,000 valid signatures from registered
Ohio voters and a “fair and truthful” summary of the proposed law.
“Without passing upon the advisability of the approval or rejection of
the measure to be referred,…I hereby certify that the summary is a fair
and truthful statement of the proposed law,” Ohio Attorney Mike General
DeWine stated in his certification letter.
Once the summary language and initial signatures are certified, the
Ohio Ballot Board must determine if the proposal contains a single law
or multiple laws. The petitioners must then collect signatures
for each proposed law from registered voters in each of 44 of Ohio’s 88
counties, equal to 1.5 percent of the total vote cast in the county for
the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election. Total
signatures collected statewide must also equal 3 percent of the total
vote cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial
election. Once signatures are verified by the Ohio Secretary of State,
the Ohio General Assembly has four months to act upon the proposed law.
If the proposal is not passed, the petitioners have an opportunity to
gather the same number of signatures to have the proposal placed on the
ballot.
The full text of today’s letter and of the amendment petitions
submitted can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/Petitions.
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