Setting the dates for the submission of local public measures to the electors and including applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill requires all propositions to authorize the issuance of bonds by a county, township, school corporation, city, or any local board or commission or the imposition of local option taxes by a city or county to be submitted to electors on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year. The bill exempts such elections from certain limitations on the withdrawal of public measures from a ballot until January 1, 2020.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named February 6, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Jeff Edler R
• Sen. Thomas A. Greene R
• Sen. J. Smith

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