Wednesday, March 30, 2016

From Ballotpedia: Laws governing direct democracy in Texas

Texas does not allow the general population many opportunities to directly impact legislation. Here's a look at what is allowed.

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Texas citizens have statewide access to just one of the six common forms of direct democracy--they can ratify or reject constitutional amendments to the Texas Constitution placed on the ballot by the Texas State Legislature.

Here is the full list:

- the legislatively referred constitutional amendment,
- the legislatively referred state statute,
- the initiated state statute (direct or indirect),
- the initiated constitutional amendment,
- the veto referendum (sometimes called the citizen referendum or the statute referendum),
- the statute affirmation (available only in Nevada), and
- the statewide recall.