A ballot initiative that would change the number of members in the Missouri General Assembly has been approved for circulation.
The ballot title reads shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to reduce the number of members and districts of the Missouri House of Representatives from 163 to 103 beginning with the 2023 general assembly.
The annual estimated savings to state government would be at least $4.7 million.
Signatures must be obtained from registered voters equal to 8% of the total votes cast in the 2008 governor’s election from six of the state’s nine U.S. Congressional districts in order for the measure to appear on the November 2012 ballot.
