A referendum proposing to allow the use of experimental drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration on terminally ill patients will be on Arizona's general election ballot in November.
Proposition 303 is one of three referred measures that will be in the hands of voters.
The Terminal Patients' Right to Try Act asks "eligible patients" to be able to use an "investigational drug, biological product or device" that has successfully completed the first phase of a clinical trial but has not been given the FDA final green light.
If voters approve, the proposition would make it a class 1 misdemeanor to block or attempt to block an eligible patient from having access to these drugs.
Also on the ballot is an amendment to the state Constitution that is another chllenge to federal sovereignty.
The Arizona State Sovereignty Amendment, or Proposition 122, would allow the state to prohibit use of employees and resources to cooperate with federal actions or programs Arizonans disapprove of or deem a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
The third measure would give state legislators a pay raise for the first time since 1998. The Commission for Salaries for Elected State Officers voted 3-2 at the end of June to recommend voters raise lawmakers' annual salaries from $24,000 to $35,000.
For the first time since 1978, there will be no citizens' initiatives on the ballot.
The deadline to submit measures with required signatures to the Secretary of State Office was July 3.
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