The Arizona House approved a measure that would make it more difficult to get initiatives on the ballot by limiting the use of paid circulators, those people who ask voters to sign petitions.
The measure passed the House after certain provisions were removed, like a demand that groups circulating initiative petitions buy a $50,000 bond.
What remained was language saying payment cannot be made on a per-name basis, the method currently used to get as many signatures as possible.
Also approved were two measures that would undermine the Voter Protection Act. One would ask voters to kill the act outright.
Representative Mitzi Epstein spoke up: "They are afraid that the effect will be it's an attack on the will of the voters. My constituents wanted me to speak up and say that this bill feels like it overturns the will of the people."
Republican House Speaker JD Mesnard said that as a constitutional change, it would require voter approval in November.