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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A bill that would make it easier for Utahns to remove their names from a statewide initiative or referendum petition has cleared the Utah Senate.
Senate Bill 275 is largely intended to keep a citizens ethics initiative from ever reaching the ballot. Most [, which calls for a code of conduct for state legislators. Utahns for Ethical Government needs to gather 95,000 valid voter signatures from 26 of 29 Senate districts to qualify the ethics initiative for the ballot.
The bill would make it easier for the initiative's opponents to target a few Senate districts to keep it from qualifying.
The measure passed 21-7 and now advances to the House.
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