When at any time, not less than ten days prior to
the commencement of any session of the General Assembly,
there shall have been filed with the secretary of
state a petition signed by three per centum of the electors
and verified as herein provided, proposing a law,
the full text of which shall have been set forth in such
petition, the secretary of state shall transmit the same
to the General Assembly as soon as it convenes. If said
proposed law shall be passed by the General Assembly,
either as petitioned for or in an amended form, it shall
be subject to the referendum. If it shall not be passed,
or if it shall be passed in an amended form, or if no
action shall be taken thereon within four months from
the time it is received by the General Assembly, it shall
be submitted by the secretary of state to the electors for
their approval or rejection, if such submission shall be
demanded by supplementary petition verified as herein
provided and signed by not less than three per centum
of the electors in addition to those signing the original
petition, which supplementary petition must be signed
and filed with the secretary of state within ninety days
after the proposed law shall have been rejected by the
General Assembly or after the expiration of such term
of four months, if no action has been taken thereon, or
after the law as passed by the General Assembly shall
have been filed by the governor in the office of the
secretary of state. The proposed law shall be submitted
at the next regular or general election occurring
subsequent to one hundred twenty-five days after the
supplementary petition is filed in the form demanded
by such supplementary petition which form shall be
either as first petitioned for or with any amendment or
amendments which may have been incorporated therein
by either branch or by both branches, of the General
Assembly. If a proposed law so submitted is approved
by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall
be the law and shall go into effect as herein provided
in lieu of any amended form of said law which may
have been passed by the General Assembly, and such
amended law passed by the General Assembly shall
not go into effect until and unless the law proposed
by supplementary petition shall have been rejected by
the electors. All such initiative petitions, last above
described, shall have printed across the top thereof, in
case of proposed laws: “Law Proposed by Initiative
Petition First to be Submitted to the General Assembly.”
Ballots shall be so printed as to permit an affirmative
or negative vote upon each measure submitted
to the electors. Any proposed law or amendment to the
constitution submitted to the electors as provided in
section la and section 1b, if approved by a majority of
the electors voting thereon, shall take effect thirty days
after the election at which it was approved and shall
be published by the secretary of state. If conflicting
proposed laws or conflicting proposed amendments to
the constitution shall be approved at the same election
by a majority of the total number of votes cast for and
against the same, the one receiving the highest number
of affirmative votes shall be the law, or in the case of
amendments to the constitution shall be the amendment
to the constitution. No law proposed by initiative
petition and approved by the electors shall be subject
to the veto of the governor.
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