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                         HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4403

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Horn, Jacobsen, Sheldon, Kessler, Costa and L. Thomas

Read first time 01/25/95. 

Calling for a joint session to honor recently deceased members of the legislature.

     WHEREAS, A number of former members of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Washington have passed from this life, leaving a record of service to the people; and

     WHEREAS, It has been a custom at each session of the Legislature to hold a memorial service in order to pay special and fitting tribute to the lives and services of these valued public servants and to express our sympathies to their bereaved families;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, the Senate concurring, That in recognition of the valued services rendered to the State by these eminent citizens, the Senate and the House shall meet in Joint Session and that an appropriate service be held in the House Chamber on Monday, February 20, 1995, at 1:30 p.m., that their bereaved families be invited to attend the memorial service, and that an opportunity be given for tribute to their memories; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That four members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker, together  with four members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, act as a Joint Committee to arrange for the memorial service.

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