[CRNMC] Fwd: regarding single subject rule

[karinajoy]

Ben's response to my question about Oregon. This (bolded and enlarged) sounds like the way to frame the single subject question, especially since it passed the test in Oregon. We will need this for our rebuttal arguments, due 8/27. 

For now, we need to focus on the "Argument For" which is due on 8/20.
Karina


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> From: Ben Price <benprice at celdf.org>
> Date: August 14, 2014 5:31:36 AM PDT
> To: karinajoy <karinacotler at gmail.com>
> Cc: Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
> Subject: Re: regarding single subject rule
> 
> Karina,
> 
> Many states and localities have single subject rules. The question is, what is a single subject? The answer is that while there must be one overarching purpose to the legislation, it may include various necessary components to accomplish the single intent. In Oregon, opponents of community bills of rights have erroneously argued that measures proposed by citizens cover more than one subject, and those arguments continue on appeal. Then again, in Colorado, proponents for a state constitutional amendment, the Community Bill of Rights amendment, went through two levels of state review: the legislative review board, the title board, only to be challenged on the single subject rule at the title board level. The proponents won on the single subject question by unanimous title board vote. Then the corporate boys appealed to the state supreme court and the judges ruled unanimously that the measure did indeed adhere to the single subject rule because each part (including subordinating corporations to community governance, enumerating certain rights, prohibiting certain rights-violating corporate activities etc) contributed to and was integral to the single subject of empowering local governments to assert the people's right to community self-government in protection of their fundamental rights.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:31 PM, karinajoy <karinacotler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Oregon really have a single subject rule?   Ben, can you verify that for us, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Karina
> ordinance proponent
> 

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