Oklahoma Senate passes restrictions on initiative petition process
- Oklahoma Voice
- Mar 19
- 1 min read
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma bill to place new regulations on citizen-led policymaking has passed the state Senate.
Senate Bill 1027 would limit the number of initiative petition signatures that could come from high-population areas and would require anyone collecting signatures to be an Oklahoma registered voter.
The measure is headed to the state House after the full Senate approved it on Tuesday with a party-line vote of 36-8.
The bill would require that no more than 10% of signatures on an initiative petition could come from a county where 400,000 or more people reside. That would affect only residents of Tulsa and Oklahoma counties by capping the total share of signatures from those two counties at 20%.
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