Opinion No. (1999)

REQUESTED BY: Senator Mark Quandahl, Nebraska State Legislature Art. III, §§ 2, 3 and 4 of the Nebraska Constitution establish the Initiative and Referendum in Nebraska, whereby the people can circulate petitions to initiate statutes or constitutional amendments and to refer certain acts of the Legislature to the voters. The Legislature has enacted a body of statutes, found at Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 32-1401 through 32-1417 (1998), which deal generally with the form of initiative and referendum petitions and the procedures by which those matters are submitted to the people. LB 729 would amend §§…