91-2025: 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 16, 2025
OPINION LETTER NO. 91-2025
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 9, 2025, for our
review under § 116.332, RSMo of the sufficiency as to form of an initiative petition
submitted by Garret Schmidt, Chapter 128, 2026-068.
We conclude that the petition must be rejected for at least the following
reasons:
failure to correctly identify the petition on the signature sheet as either a
proposed change to the Missouri Revised Statutes or an amendment to the
Missouri Constitution as required by Section 116.040, and
failure to place all new matter in sequentially numbered divisions.
Because of our rejection of the form of the petition for the reasons stated
above, we have not reviewed the petition to determine whether additional
deficiencies exist. Pursuant to § 116.332.4, RSMo, the Secretary of State is
authorized to review this opinion and “make a final decision as to the approval or
rejection of the form of the petition.”
Very truly yours,
ANDREW BAILEY
Attorney General
OP-2025-102