Review and approval of the summary statement prepared for the initiative petition submitted by Austin Shaffer amending Article XXI of the Missouri Constitution (2022-083).

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI ERIC SCHMITT OP-2022-004 Supreme Court Building 207 W. High Street P.O. Box 899 Jefferson City, MO 65102 Phone: (573) 751-3321 Fax: (573) 751-0774 www.ago.mo.gov January 19, 2022 OPINION LETTER NO. 4-2022 The Honorable John R. Ashcroft Missouri Secretary of State James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center 600 West Main Street Jefferson City, MO 65101 Dear Secretary Ashcroft: This opinion letter responds to your request dated January 7, 2022 for our review under § 116.334, RSMo of a proposed summary statement prepared for the petition submitted by Austin Shaffer, 2022-083. The proposed summary statement is as follows: Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to: • prohibit any government or other private organization from mandating any vaccine or medication unless the vaccine or medication has been in existence and successfully tested for at least 20 years without significant modification; and • require any vaccine provider without 20 years of existence and successful testing without modification and was not developed by use of inactivated toxins, or whole bacteria or vims, or part of them, and is not an RNA vaccine to establish a 20 year escrow account and escrow 75% of revenues for the purpose of paying medical claims? Pursuant to § 116.334, RSMo, we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents. Very truly yours, ERIC S. SCHMITT Attorney General