An Act to require a percentage of signatures on a petition to initiate a constitutional amendment to be obtained from each legislative district.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 2-1-1 be AMENDED:
2-1-1.
All
measuresA
measure
proposed by initiative
shall be
may only be
presented by
a petition.
The petition shall be
signed by not less than five percent of the qualified electors of the
state.
A constitutional amendment proposed by initiative may only be presented by a petition signed by qualified voters equal in number to at least ten percent of the total votes cast for Governor in the last gubernatorial election. At least one-thirty-fifth of the number of signatures required to propose a constitutional amendment by initiative must be obtained from each legislative district.