California Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell) has introduced AB 1451. It requires that at least 10% of the signatures on a statewide initiative petition must be collected by unpaid individuals. It also bans paying circulators on a per-signature basis. Here is the text.

The League of Women Voters of California opposes this bill. It has a hearing in the Assembly Elections Committee on Wednesday, April 10, at 9 a.m.

Several bills like this one were vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown in the past, but he is not Governor any longer.

This story says that the Maryland legislature is about to adjourn for the year, without passing a bill to redraw U.S. House district boundaries. If the legislature did redraw the boundaries of the Sixth District, that might cause the U.S. Supreme Court to then rule that the pending lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, Benisek v Lamone, is moot.

A bill is being introduced in the New York legislature on April 8 to enable the state to make President Trump’s state income tax returns public. The state would seek the permission of three chairmen of three congressional committees in order to do this. See this New York Times story.

This bill does injure voting rights. Many states are threatening to pass bills that keep presidential candidates off the ballot if they don’t reveal income tax returns. Those bills injure the voters who want to vote for such candidates. Thanks to Howard Bashman for the link.