By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, petition (accompanied by proposal, House, No. 1772) of Alice K. Wolf and others Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to initiative petitions. The Judiciary. .

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

PETITION OF:

Alice K. Wolf

Byron Rushing

Michael E. Festa

Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.

Elizabeth A. Malia

Frank I. Smizik

Jay R. Kaufman

Stanley C. Rosenberg

Jarrett T. Barrios

James B. Eldridge

Michael A. Costello

David M. Torrisi

Cory Atkins

Douglas W. Petersen

David Paul Linsky

Denis E. Guyer

Ruth B. Balser

Cleon H. Turner

Kay Khan

Rachel Kaprielian

Mary E. Grant

William N. Brownsberger

Ellen Story

Benjamin Swan

Barbara A. L'Italien

Edward M. Augustus, Jr.

Louis L. Kafka

Tom Sannicandro

John W. Scibak

Alice Hanlon Peisch

Denise Provost

Harriette L. Chandler

Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera

Martha M. Walz

Gloria L. Fox

Garrett J. Bradley

Sarah K. Peake

Matthew C. Patrick

Peter V. Kocot

Peter J. Koutoujian

Robert A. Havern

John D. Keenan

Patricia D. Jehlen

Michael J. Moran

Jennifer M. Callahan

Christopher N. Speranzo

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to initiative petitions.

          A majority of all the members elected to the Senate and House of Representatives, in joint session, hereby declares it to be expedient to alter the Constitution by the adoption of the following Article of Amendment, to the end that it may become a part of the Constitution [if similarly agreed to in a joint session of the next General Court and approved by the people at the state election next following]:

ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.

Article XLVIII of the amendments to the Constitution is hereby amended in that part of said article under the heading “The Initiative. II Initiative Petitions” in Section 2, Excluded Matters, by inserting after the words “religious practices or religious institutions,” the words:─ ; to limiting or abridging civil rights.