Arizona SB 1429: board of directors; commerce authority.

Bill Text

SB1429 - 572R - H Ver 

 House Engrossed 
 Senate Bill

 board 
 of directors; commerce authority.

 (now: ballot 
 measures; circulators; disclosure)

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SENATE BILL 1429

AN 
ACT

Amending sections 19-101, 19-102, 
19-102.01, 19-118, 19-118.01 and 19-141, Arizona 
Revised Statutes; relating to initiative and referendum.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: 

Section 1. Section 19-101, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE19-101. Referendum petition; circulators; violation; classification

A. The following shall be the form for referring to 
the people by referendum petition a measure or item, section or part of a 
measure enacted by the legislature, or by the legislative body of an 
incorporated city, town or county:

Referendum 
Description

(Insert 
a description of not more than two hundred words of the

principal 
provisions of the measure sought to be referred.)

Notice: This is only a description of the measure 
sought to be referred prepared by the sponsor of the measure. It may 
not include every provision contained in the measure. Before 
signing, make sure the title and text of the measure are 
attached. You have the right to read or examine the title and text 
before signing.

Petition 
for Referendum

To the secretary of state (or to 
the corresponding officer for or on local, county, city or town measures):

We, the undersigned citizens and qualified electors of the 
state of Arizona, respectfully order that the senate (or house) bill No. _____ 
(or other local, county, city or town measure) entitled (title of act or 
ordinance, and if the petition is against less than the whole act or ordinance 
then set forth here the item, section, or part, of any measure on which the 
referendum is used), passed by the _________________ session of the legislature 
of the state of Arizona, at the general (or special, as the case may be) 
session of said legislature, (or by a county, city or town legislative body) 
shall be referred to a vote of the qualified electors of the state, (county, 
city or town) for their approval or rejection at the next regular general 
election (or county, city or town election) and each for himself says:

I have personally signed this 
petition with my first and last names. I have not signed any other 
petition for the same measure. I am a qualified elector of the state 
of Arizona, county of (or city or town and county of, as the case may be) 
_____________.

 "Warning

It is a class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly sign 
an initiative or referendum petition with a name other than his own, except in 
a circumstance where he signs for a person, in the presence of and at the 
specific request of such person, who is incapable of signing his own name 
because of physical infirmity, or to knowingly sign his name more than once for 
the same measure, or to knowingly sign such petition when he is not a qualified 
elector." 

Signature���� Name����� Actual��������� Arizona������ City 
or������ Date

���������� (first and��� address����� post 
office������ town������ signed

����������� last name�� (street &������ address������ (if 
any)

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����������������������� describe������������������������������������ 

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(Fifteen lines for signatures 
which shall be numbered)

The validity of signatures on this 
sheet must be sworn to by the circulator before a notary public on the form 
appearing on the back of the sheet.

 Number 
________________

B. Each petition 
sheet shall have printed on the top of each sheet the following:

 "It 
is unlawful to sign this petition before it has a serial number." 

C. Each petition sheet shall have printed in capital 
letters in not less than twelve point bold-faced type in the upper right-hand 
corner of the face of the petition sheet and below the statement prescribed in 
subsection B of this section the following:

 "_________ paid circulator" "_________ 
volunteer" ___________ 
out-of-state resident.

D. A circulator of a referendum petition shall state 
whether the circulator is a paid circulator, or volunteer or out-of-state resident by 
checking the appropriate line all 
applicable lines regarding the status of the circulator on the petition 
form before circulating the petition for signatures.

E. Signatures obtained on referendum petitions in 
violation of subsection D of this section are void and shall not be counted in 
determining the legal sufficiency of the petition. The presence of 
signatures that are invalidated under this subsection on a