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Wisconsin

Jimbo S

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5. The process

Reply to Poiuyt (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:02 PM

Dec 2021

Two consecutive sessions of the Legislature must vote to pass.

Then it goes to the ballot, simple majority to pass.

I think "Marcy's Law" is the latest to go this route. The state's DOMA also went this route, until the SCOTUS ruling nullified it.

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