Simple Majority for school levy elections -- Let the People Decide

From Brian Blake, 19th LD.

It’s wrong to let a minority of voters hold our schools back. How can it be fair to elect lawmakers with 50 percent of the vote, but set a much higher bar for our local schools? Legislators should not stand in the way of sending this issue to a vote of the people. This bill has been passing back and forth between House and Senate for many years. It is time to get it out of the legislative hands and send it on to a vote of the people.

In a unanimous bi-partisan vote the House education committee approved legislation that would amend the state Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters to pass a school levy.

The resolution (HJR 4205) would overturn the current 60 percent supermajority requirement first approved in 1932 to pass a school levy. Should it pass the Legislature this year, the decision to amend the state Constitution would go before voters in November.