128-2025: 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
July 11, 2025
OPINION LETTER NO. 128-2025
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 July 2, 2025 for our review
under § 116.334, RSMo of a proposed summary statement prepared for the petition
submitted by Michael Lester, 2026-067. The proposed summary statement is as follows:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
• Guarantee citizens at least 365 days to gather signatures for the next possible
election;
• Allow initiative proponents to prepare an official ballot summary, and allow
any voter to challenge misleading titles;
• Require courts to rewrite misleading titles and set exclusive procedures in Cole
County and the Missouri Supreme Court;
• Prohibit the legislature from changing voter-approved initiatives without 90%
approval;
• Bar laws from weakening initiative or referendum powers; and
• Require most measures to appear on general election ballots unless 90% of
legislators and the governor approve otherwise?
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-2025-140