Last Friday marked the deadline for initiative campaigns to submit signatures for the November ballot.

Three campaigns turned in more than 1 million signatures, nearly assuring that they will be placed on the ballot this fall, including measures to privatize the sale of liquor, restrict highway tolls, and reinstate a training program for home health care workers.

Initiative 1183 would close state liquor stores and sell their assets, including the liquor-distribution center. The initiative would allow private stores to sell liquor and create licensing fees for sale and distribution of liquor based on sales and revenues.

Initiative 1125 would require the Legislature, not the state Transportation Commission, to set tolls, and mandate that a toll on a particular road or bridge be used only for construction, operation or maintenance of that project.

Initiative 1163 would require background checks and training for long-term care workers and providers. 

A fourth campaign, to provide for better conditions for egg-laying hens, did not submit signatures. Earlier in the week supporters of Initiative 1130 were expected to be among the campaigns to submit signatures by the deadline. Initiative 1130 would prohibit keeping egg-laying hens in stacked cages or in cages that prevent them from moving freely and fully extending their wings. The initiative would also bar the sale of eggs from businesses that did not comply with this law.  The law would take effect January 1, 2018.

However in a turn of events late last week, the sponsors of the Washington initiative campaign dropped their effort after reaching a national deal with commercial egg producers to pursue federal legislation.