Does Jack Goodman Even Know What His Own Bill Would Actually Do?

Today's News-Leader story about GOP Senator Jack Goodman is quite remarkable, since it suggests on its face that Goodman doesn't even understand the effects of a bill which he has written and filed.  Chad Livengood writes...

Last month, numerous Greene County voters said they stood in polling
booths, puzzled about what a county ballot initiative meant.

Some
told reporters they had no idea what they voted for or against because
the ballot language for Question 1 read like a section of law only
discernable [sic] with a copy of the state constitution handy.

Sen.
Jack Goodman, R-Mount Vernon, wants to reform the way ballot questions
are presented to voters by giving them a "fair" interpretation of what
current laws mean and how they would be altered under the proposed
changes.

"The Greene County Question 1 is a good example of
letting people understand what it is now and what we're changing it
to," said Goodman, who doesn't represent Greene County but heard plenty
of complaints about it from voters. ...

Goodman's legislation, Senate Bill 35, would establish a newly created
bipartisan eight-member Fair Ballot Commission to review and approve
ballot language.

The problem, of course, is that if Senate Bill 35 were actually passed into law it would do absolutely nothing to change the way that county ballot initiatives are summarized for the ballot.  Goodman's bill would only change the way that ballot summary language is written for statewide ballot initiatives.

In other words, Goodman cites Greene County's Question 1 on November's ballot as an example of the sort of problem his bill is intended to cure, despite that passage of his legislation would not lead to any change in the ballot summary process for Greene County initiatives.

I imagine it is far too much to ask that Republican lawmakers --who still control the assembly-- craft legislation that actually addresses the issue they tell us it is supposed to be targeting.