The ballot summary is the 100 words that will be printed on every ballot to summarize our policy. It’s the thing voters will see when deciding whether they want to vote yes or no on our proposal. It reads:

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

• expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;

• allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;

• prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;

• prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and

• preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?

• State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings

Check out our 1-Pager Explainer Document for more details.

If you’d like to read the full proposed Constitutional Amendment, please visit this link.

First, Amendment 6 will protect voter initiatives by prohibiting any legislation to repeal or amend a citizen-passed initiative without an 80% bi-partisan super-majority in the House and Senate. If that occurs, the Legislature then would have to send its proposed repeal or amendment back to the voters for another vote.  

Second, it will ban the legislature from enacting  any law or constitutional amendment that will make the initiative process more difficult. Voters will be the only ones who could approve changes to the initiative process.

Third, it is going to ban the legislature from deceiving voters with misleading or confusing ballot language, and it is going to require clear, fair, accurate ballot language so voters understand what they are voting on.

Our amendment will ban the legislature from overturning things we voted for, except with an 80% bi-partisan super majority, and even then it must go back to a vote of the people. So if a super-majority of the legislature doesn’t like what the voters have passed, they can ask the voters to reconsider. That means that after our initiative passes, laws passed by citizen-led initiative petition will be stronger, more secure.

There is a model for this threshold in other states and when we held townhalls across Missouri we heard from people that they wanted a guarantee that if the legislature wants to send something back to voters asking them to overturn what they already voted for, the legislature’s decision must be cross-partisan. 80% provides a high-level of confidence that one party could not impose changes to voters’ will single handedly.

Yes! While 80% might sound like a lot, you only have to look at this year’s state legislature’s passed bills to see it’s not unreasonable at all. In 2026, almost a third of the bills passed in the Missouri General Assembly were approved by at least 80% in both the House and the Senate. Clearly an achievable standard!

What the 80% standard ensures is that a potential legislative change to a citizen-led initiative law or amendment has to have broad support. The legislature can’t just rely on a partisan agenda to overturn the will of the people.

For example, in 2006, Missourians passed a citizen-led proposition to increase minimum wage, only to realize that change unintentionally conflicted with an existing overtime law that put some workers at a disadvantage. The legislature almost unanimously (well over 80%) voted to correct this error.

This is just one example of how the 80% standard is intended to work—we don’t want politicians to overturn our laws and amendments out of a partisan agenda, but we do want them to propose good-faith fixes in the rare chance there’s an oversight in a citizen-led initiative that’s already passed.

A constitutional amendment approved by voters cannot be overturned by politicians on their own. They have to send it back to the people for a vote, and they have to follow our state’s laws and constitution when they do. Politicians would have to follow the rules laid out in our amendment if they wanted to overturn it, which would mean they need at least 80% of the legislature to agree it needed to be changed - and even if they got 80% of the legislature to agree, they would have to use clear and honest language on the ballot, so they couldn’t try to trick us into voting to undo it!

Yes, and ultimately we heard from the people of Missouri that they are sick of rehashing these fights every 5-10 years. They felt that if anything did need something like an administrative change or to fix an unintended consequence then the legislature could come together to suggest those changes to the voters.

History says no! In August we voted on Amendment 4, which was the Legislature’s attempt to take away our initiative petition rights forever. Missourians saw through the ruse and voted Amendment 4 down with an 80% NO vote. Now it is time to finish the job of protecting our rights by voting YES on Amendment 6.

This is not about the substance of any citizen-initiated issue that has been, is now, or will someday be on the ballot. It is about protecting the process. Our goal is simply to require that language on all ballot issues be clear and accurate, to stop politicians from overturning initiatives that were passed by voters, and to protect our 118-year-old freedom of the initiative petition. Amendment 6  will impact the ability of voters now and decades from now to have the final say on what policies should impact our state and Constitution. The initiative process has been a Missouri tradition and part of our Constitution for the last 118 years and we’d like to keep it for at least 118 more!

It would NOT reinstate repealed initiatives. But it would protect whatever is still in law or the constitution, if it was passed after Jan 1, 2010.