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ND worker comp agency revamp may be on fall ballot
Category: State · State: North Dakota · Source: Forbes
North Dakota's fall lineup of ballot initiatives may include proposals to discourage smoking, cut income taxes, ban fenced hunting and revamp the administration of North Dakota's workers compensation agency. Supporters of the workers compensation and hunting measures turned in their petitions Tuesday, hours before a midnight deadline arrived. The measures had to be submitted before the deadline to have a chance for a spot on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
ND anti-tobacco initiative petitions turned in
Category: Tobacco · State: North Dakota · Source: Associated Press
North Dakota is spending roughly a third of the money that it should to discourage tobacco use, say advocates of a ballot initiative that voters are likely to decide in November. The proposal's supporters turned in petitions to Secretary of State Al Jaeger's office on Monday that they said included the signatures of 15,667 North Dakota voters, or 22 percent more than the minimum of 12,844 needed to qualify for a vote. They collected the names in three months. "I think this was an easy measure because so few people said no," said former attorney general Heidi Heitkamp, who is chairwoman of the initiative campaign. "People were just more than willing to sign." The measure would establish a nine-member board that would be put in charge of developing a comprehensive program to discourage smoking, smokeless tobacco chewing and other forms of tobacco use.
Group Opposes North Dakota Hunting Proposal
Category: Property Rights · State: North Dakota · Source: Houston Chronicle
Game preserve owners are campaigning against a proposed North Dakota ballot measure that would eliminate so-called high-fence hunting, saying a ban would violate their property rights. "The bottom line is that preserve hunting is not for everyone," said Wayne Laaveg, who owns an elk farm near Edinburg. "But citizens should have the right to choose where they want to hunt." Supporters of the initiative say it's unethical to shoot a fenced-in animal.
Hoeven Supports Workers Comp Measure
Category: Insurance · State: North Dakota · Source: KFYR-TV
Governor Hoeven says he`s supporting a proposed ballot measure to give the governor power to appoint North Dakota`s workers compensation director. The governor, however, isn`t saying whether he`ll campaign for the measure if it makes it onto the ballot.
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