And so we decided that it was appropriate to give the power back to the people that we were elected to serve. And so We came up with a constitutional amendment that we proposed, we passed in the legislature, I co sponsored it, and then we put it to a vote in the election in 2021, and it passed overwhelmingly. And what the measure stated was that any governor who wanted to declare a state emergency would need to get renewal authority from the elected representatives after 21 days. (04:18–04:35)
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