Oregon County Allocation of Lottery Proceeds Amendment (2014)

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The Oregon County Allocation of Lottery Proceeds Amendment, also known as Oregon Lottery Local Control Act, did not make the November 4, 2014 ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment. The measure would have distributed 50 percent of state lottery proceeds to counties for specified public purposes.[1]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The certified ballot title read as:[1]

Amends Constitution: Fifty percent of net lottery proceeds distributed to counties for allocation to specified public purposes[2]

The full text of the certified ballot title and summary can be read here.

Constitutional changes

The full text of the constitutional changes proposed by this measure can be read here.

Support

Cliff Sain-Thomason, Patricia Milne and Wayne Simmons were the chief petitioners for this measure.[1]

Path to the ballot

See also: Oregon signature requirements & Amending the Oregon Constitution

The measure was filed with the Oregon Secretary of State on September 17, 2013 with the subject "Oregon Lottery Local Control Act," and was numbered proposed initiative 31. The measure was withdrawn by the chief petitioners on April 4, 2014. If the measure had gone forward, supporters would have had to collect a minimum of 116,284 valid signatures by July 3, 2014 to place the measure on the ballot.[1]

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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division, "Detailed Information For : 31/2014," accessed June 6, 2014
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.