REPORT of the SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE on INITIATIVE PETITIONS on the INITIATIVE PETITION of JOHN A. LIPPITT AND OTHERS FOR THE PASSAGE OF AN ACT TO REFORM AND REGULATE LEGISLATIVE STIPENDS (see House, No. 5010)

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An initiative petition filed by John A. Lippitt and others sought to reform and regulate the stipends paid to Massachusetts legislators. The state Supreme Judicial Court found the proposal unconstitutional because it attempts to alter legislative procedures, which cannot be done via ballot initiative. Consequently, the Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions voted to advise the General Court to take no action on the measure.

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