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+title: Governance action
+tags:
+  - Voltaire
+  - Governance action
+url: ""
+image: ""
+image_text: ""
+---
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+A Governance Action is a proposal that gets submitted On-Chain for voting. It is an on-chain event triggered by a transaction. Governance actions have an expiration period, after which the action cannot be enacted. 
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+Any ada holder can submit a governance action for a vote on-chain. Once the action is recorded on the ledger, voters submit voting transactions.