legislative referendum

Proposition 3, a legislative referendum that would have cut taxes, was defeated.

"Everybody agreed that if they could guarantee $40 million we could all back a legislative referendum," he said.

Citizens can call constitutional and legislative referendums.

Legislative referendums are only possible on laws passed by the legislature; citizens cannot initiate legislation of their own crafting.

A legislative referendum can be called in order to abrogate a law totally or partially, if requested by 500,000 electors or five regional councils.

Montana Legislative Referendum 121 was a referendum held in Montana in 2012 that denied state funded services to illegal immigrants.

Unlike an initiative or legislative referendum that allows voters to suggest new legislation, a popular referendum allows them to suggest repealing an existing one.

The Gallagher Amendment was a legislative referendum drafted by Dennis J. Gallagher, then a state legislator.

Legislative referral (aka "legislative referendum"), in which the legislature puts proposed legislation up for popular vote (either voluntarily or, in the case of a constitutional amendment as a required procedure)

This vote was the first of its kind in the country, being the first regular legislative referendum held by the Italian Republic 27 years after the Italian constitution, which allowed such referendums, was approved.

The ministry had been abolished by legislative referendum in 1993, during a period of great upheaval and financial sacrifices, but it was reconstituted in the same year until it assumed the current name in 2006.

The possibility of recall referenda (together with the popular election of executives, the initiative and the legislative referendum) was introduced into several cantonal constitutions after the 1860s in the course of a broad movement for democratic reform.

One example, she said, was the lawsuit brought by Democrats against Mr. O'Rourke in the hiring of Edward M. Gibbs, a former deputy county executive, as a county consultant, despite a legislative referendum banning such hiring.