Preliminary Referendum Petition for SB 5

A short version and long version of the Preliminary Referendum Petition for Am. Sub. S. B. No. 5 was filed with the Ohio Attorney General and Secretary of State.   See the Ohio Secretary of State’s web page, which sets out the procedure for a referendum and cites to provisions of the Ohio Constitution and Ohio Revised Code establishing the procedure. Once the Attorney General certifies the petition, a required minimum of 231,149 valid signatures must be gathered,  equal to 6% of the total number of votes cast for Governor in 2010. The signatures must also meet the minimum distribution requirement of 3% of gubernatorial vote in 44 counties.  When the required signatures are gathered and verified, the people of Ohio may vote on whether the General Assembly’s law will go into effect .