indirect initiative
California would lose its direct initiative system in favor of a less powerful indirect initiative system under any of three laws floating in the legislature. Under the changes initiatives would go to lowmakers, who could change them from the form voters agreed to on petitions, before seeing the ballot.
Under a bill being considered by the Oregon Senate Oregon’s ballot initiative system would become an indirect initiative, rather than the current direct system. Ballot initiatives would first go to the legislature, which would hold hearings and be able to put their own competing initiative on the ballot.