MO HB1396

Allows registered voters in third classification cities to petition the city council to adopt or repeal ordinances, with signatures from voters including their street address, age, and length of residency in the city.

Requires city clerk to verify petition signatures within 10 days using voter registration records; insufficient petitions may be amended within 10 days or refiled.

If petition is signed by 25% or more of votes cast for mayor in the last mayoral election, the council must either pass the ordinance within 20 days or immediately submit it to voters; if signed by 10-25% of mayoral votes, council must pass it within 20 days or submit at the next municipal election.

Ballot question shall ask whether the ordinance should be adopted or repealed; if voters approve by majority vote, the ordinance becomes effective; if rejected, it cannot be readopted without another voter approval.

Ordinances adopted by voter petition or vote cannot be repealed or amended except by another vote of the people, and any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election.