By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Sun
State lawmakers want to force voters to reapprove, over and over again, perhaps dozens of measures they previously enacted.
On a party-line vote Tuesday, the Senate Elections Committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would mandate a revote every eight years of any measure that spends or collects public dollars. The measure, which now needs Senate action, eventually would have to be ratified by voters in November to take effect.
Sen. Chester Crandell, R-Heber, said not everything that voters have approved has proven successful. And he said some proposals have outlived their usefulness.
But Crandell said a 1998 constitutional amendment precludes lawmakers from altering or repealing anything approved at the polls. He said putting them back on the ballot is the only way of revisiting them.
