Oklahoma State Question 318, Textbooks for Common Schools Initiative (1946)
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| Type Initiated constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Oklahoma State Question 318 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Oklahoma on November 5, 1946. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported requiring the legislature to establish a system of free textbooks for common school students, appointing a state committee of educators to create textbook lists, and allowing local educator committees to select textbooks from the approved lists. |
A "no" vote opposed requiring the legislature to establish a system of free textbooks for common school students, appointing a state committee of educators to create textbook lists, and allowing local educator committees to select textbooks from the approved lists. |
Election results
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Oklahoma State Question 318 |
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261,807 | 60.97% | ||
| No | 167,593 | 39.03% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for State Question 318 was as follows:
| “ | Shall a proposed amendment to Section 6, Article XIII, Oklahoma Constitution, directing the Legislature to provide a system of free textbooks for use by all pupils in the common schools of the state, and requiring the Legislature to authorize the Governor to appoint a committee composed of active educators of the state, whose duty it shall be to prepare official multiple textbook lists from which textbooks for use in such schools shall be selected by committees composed of active educators in the local school districts in a manner to be designated by the Legislature, be approved by the people? | ” |
Path to the ballot
In Oklahoma, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment was equal to 15% of the votes cast in the last general election. In 2010, voters approved State Question 750, which changed the signature requirement to be based on the preceding gubernatorial election. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval.
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