MS HB1457

Secretary of State, with Attorney General approval, may make nonsubstantive clerical or technical corrections to section number references in proposed constitutional amendments under the voter initiative procedure.

Corrections are limited to preventing use of existing section numbers or invalid initiative measures due to section number designation errors only.

Corrections may be made anytime after the Attorney General issues a certificate of review and before the initiative ballot is printed.

Secretary of State is prohibited from making any changes beyond nonsubstantive corrections to section number references in the proposed amendment.

Act requires submission to the U.S. Attorney General or U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and takes effect upon that act's effectuation.