116-2025: INITIATIVES.INITIATIVE PETITIONS.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI
ANDREW BAILEY
Supreme Court Building
207 W. High Street
P.O. Box 899
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: (573) 751-3321
Fax: (573) 751-0774
www.ago.mo.gov
June 30, 2025
OPINION LETTER NO. 116-2025
The Honorable Denny Hoskins
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Hoskins:
This opinion letter responds to your request dated June 20, 2025 for our review
under § 116.334, RSMo of a proposed summary statement prepared for the petition
submitted by Jamie Howard, 2026-048. The proposed summary statement is as follows:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
• require that any legislative change to a voter-approved initiative be referred to
voters if supported by at least eighty percent of each legislative chamber;
• limit the legislature’s ability to enact laws or amendments affecting the
initiative and referendum process;
• require statewide measures to appear on general election ballots unless a
special election is authorized by the governor and a supermajority of the
legislature;
• direct courts to revise ballot titles determined to be misleading; and
• specify that a simple statewide majority of votes is sufficient to pass a citizen-
initiated measure?
Pursuant to § 116.334, RSMo, we approve the legal content and form of the
proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no
action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement
of the petition, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its
proponents.
Very truly yours,
ANDREW BAILEY
Attorney General
OP-2025-127