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Another petition would make various changes in the state income tax, the state sales tax and local property taxes...
...Committee to Save our Cities and Towns said they garnered 70,000 signatures for a petition designed to guarantee the state's cities and towns a 40 percent share of the state's new growth revenues...
Initiative petitions to change state law go to the Legislature. If they are approved and signed by the governor, they become law. If the proposals are rejected, supporters can gather 8421 additional signatures to put them on the 1990 ballot, said Susan Pye, a spokesperson for Connolly...
Some questions filed this year-- particularly the four calling for changes in the state tax law--may conflict. If voters approve conflicting changes in the law, the court will have to decide which initiative survives, Connolly said...
Constitutional amendments must garner 25 percent support from constitutional conventions this spring and in the spring of 1991 to be placed on the ballot in 1992. If the joint legislative sessions reject the proposed change in the state constitution either time, the initiative dies, Pye said...