a proposed law or amendment placed on the ballot by citizen petition is called a (n) national ballot measure.
a proposed law or amendment placed on the ballot by citizen petition is called a(n)?
national ballot measure
measures can be placed on the ballot either by the california state legislature or via a petition signed by registered voters. the state legislature can place a state constitutional amendment or a proposed law change on the ballot as a referendum to be approved by voters. under the state constitution, certain proposed changes to state laws may require mandatory referenda, and must be approved by voters before they can take effect. a measure placed on the ballot via petition can either be a vote to veto a law that has been adopted by the legislature (an optional referendum or "people's veto") or a new proposed law (initiative).
california ballot proposition
innovator companies may also present arguments to the fda that the abbreviated new drug application (anda) should not be accepted by filing a "citizen petition" with the fda. citizen petitions are part of the basic law governing everything the fda does - at any time, any “interested person” can request that the fda “issue, amend, or revoke a regulation or order,” or “take or refrain from taking any other form of administrative action.” originally there was no deadline by which the fda had to respond to citizen petitions filed to protest andas, leading to significant delays in approving generics. in 2007 the law was amended to include a new section, section 505(q), in the part of the federal code created by the hatch-waxman act; this section said that the fda could not delay approving an anda due to concerns raised in a citizen petition unless the delay was "necessary to protect public health"; it also mandated that the fda needed to respond to a petition within 180 days - this was shorted to 150 days in a 2011 amendment. in 2014 the fda issued guidance to industry about submitting citizen petitions and how it would consider them.
fda citizen petition