EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 51
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CIERPIOT.
5733S.01I ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment repealing section 50 of article III of
the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof relating to
initiative petitions.
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein:
That at the next general election to be held in the 1
state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday 2
in November, 2022, or at a special election to be called by 3
the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to 4
the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or 5
rejection, the follow ing amendment to article III of the 6
Constitution of the state of Missouri:7
Section A. Section 50, article III, Constitution of 1
Missouri, is repealed and one new section adopted in lieu 2
thereof, to be known as section 50, to read as follows:3
Section 50. Initiative petitions proposing amendments 1
to the constitution shall be signed by eight percent of the 2
legal voters in each of two -thirds of the [congressional] 3
senate districts in the state, and petitions proposing laws 4
shall be signed by five percent of such voters. Every such 5
petition shall be filed with the secretary of state not less 6
than six months before the election and shall contain an 7
enacting clause and the full text of the measure. Petitions 8
for constitutional amendme nts shall not contain more than 9
one amended and revised article of this constitution, or one 10 SJR 51 2
new article which shall not contain more than one subject 11
and matters properly connected therewith, and the enacting 12
clause thereof shall be "Be it resolved by the people of the 13
state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:". 14
Petitions for laws shall contain not more than one subject 15
which shall be expressed clearly in the title, and the 16
enacting clause thereof shall be "Be it enacted by the 17
people of the state of Missouri:". 18