The following is a partial list of Oregon ballot measures, dating back to 1990.

In Oregon, the initiative and referendum process dates back to 1902, due to the efforts of the Direct Legislation League . Oregon pioneered the process, which was known nationally as the Oregon System.

Early measures

1922

• 6 — required children between eight and sixteen to attend public school; the measure passed 115,506 to 103,685, but was invalidated by the Supreme Court of the United States in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925).

1990s

1990

• 5 — limited property taxes, equalized school funding.

1992

• 9 — would have amended the state constitution to declare homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse".

1994

• 11 — established mandatory minimum sentences for certain violent felonies, required adult trials and sentencing for those felonies for defendants over age 15.
• 16 — legalized doctor-assisted euthanasia.
• 19 — would have amended state constitution to exempt obscenity from the state constitution's free speech protections.

1996

• 36 — raised state minimum wage to $6.50 per hour.
• 47 — limited property taxes, required double-majority for some local tax increases.

1997

• 50 — made changes to Measure 47.
• 51 — would have repealed Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.

1998

• 58 — allowed adoptees access to original births certificates (and hence, previously secret information about their birth parents).
• 60 — established vote-by-mail for all Oregon elections.
• 67 — legalized medical marijuana.

2000s

2000

• 3 — prohibited forfeiture without conviction.
• 8 — would have capped state spending
• 9 — would have prohibited "encouragement" of homosexuality by public schools.
• 86 — mandated kicker checks in the state Constitution.
• 94 — would have repealed 1994's Measure 11.

2002

• 13 — would have allowed transfer of money from a state education trust fund to the school fund, and would have done such a transfer immediately.
• 17 — would have lowered minimum age for serving in state legislature from 21 to 18.
• 19 — similar to Measure 13 , but transferred less money, and passed
• 23 — would have established universal health care in Oregon.
• 25 — raised minimum wage to $6.90, tied it to the consumer price index.
• 26 — prohibited paying signature gatherers (for initiative petitions) per signature
• 27 — would have required labeling of GMO foods.

2003

• 28 — would have created a temporary 1% income tax increase to balance state budgets.

2004

• 30 — would have created a temporary income tax surcharge to balance state budgets.
• 33 — would have expanded Oregon's medicial marijuana law to allow for the creation of nonprofit dispensaries
• 36 — amended the Oregon constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman (i.e., prohibited same-sex marriage)
• 38 — would have abolished SAIF , the state-run workers' compensation provider

External links

• Oregon Blue Book Election History
• Oregon Blue Book introduction to list of Initiatives, Referenda, and Recalls
• Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division