Petition Status Find information about active and inactive petitions, including initiative, referendum, and recall petitions. Search Petitions Petition Type (Required) * Initiative Recall Referendum Status (Optional) Petition Year (Optional) Petition Year (Optional) Petition Topic Petition Topic All Petition IDs Your request returned multiple entries, please select an ID to view * Your request returned multiple entries, please select an ID to view * Petition Topic (Short Title) Submit Reset form If you are human, leave this field blank. Your search returned 1 results. Return to Petitions page. An Act relating to filling a vacancy in the Office of United States Senator. Initiative Id: 03SENV | AG File Number: 663-04-024 State: Inactive Petition Status: Proposition appeared on ballot Primary Sponsors Harry Crawford, Eric Croft, David Guttenberg Contact Sponsors Karen Compton, 227-2527, www.trust-the-people.org Date Petition Application Filed September 4, 2003 Petitions Booklets Issued November 3, 2003 Petitions Booklets Filed with Elections January 9, 2004 The initiative appeared on the November 2, 2004 election ballot and was approved by a vote of: YES – 165,017 NO – 131,821 Sponsors Proposed Bill Language PDF Download HTML version Ballot Information 03SENV ballot language (pdf) Petition Details Application was received in the Lieutenant Governor’s Office on September 4, 2003. A copy of the application and signatures were sent to the Department of Law and Division of Elections on September 5, 2003. The Division of Elections determined that there were a sufficient number of sponsor signatures on September 11, 2003. On October 22, 2003, the Department of Law delivered its legal review which determined that the Seventeenth Amendment of the United States Constitution gives state legislatures sole authority to decide how to fill U.S. Senate vacancies; therefore, on the basis of the Department of Law opinion that the application did not comply with constitutional provisions, certification was denied on October 22, 2003. A lawsuit was filed and the court ordered petition booklets to be issued to the initiative committee by November 3, 2003. Petition booklets were distributed to initiative committee at 3pm, November 3, 2003. Petition booklets were submitted to the Division of Elections on January 9, 2004. Lieutenant Governor Leman certified the petition for this initiative as properly filed on March 4, 2004. Lieutenant Governor Leman determined that House Bill 414 was “substantially similar” to the petition and that the petition would not appear on the 2004 general election ballot. A lawsuit was filed to determine whether HB 414 is “substantially similar” to the petition. The court ordered that the proposition be placed on the November 2, 2004 general election ballot.