6122-S AMH WAYS FRAS 329

SSB 6122 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Ways & Means

ADOPTED 4/25/2009

    Beginning on page 1, line 8, strike all of sections 1 and 2

    Renumber remaining sections consecutively and correct internal references.

    Correct the title.

    On page 13, after line 15, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 16.  The sums of eighty thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, and eighty thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated from the state general fund to the office of the secretary of state solely for legal advertising under RCW 29A.52.330."

    Correct the title.

EFFECT:   Restores the requirement, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, that the Secretary of State provide radio and television advertising of proposed constitutional amendments and other state measures.  Appropriates $160,000 from the state general fund for the 2009-11 bienium for purposes of providing legal advertising of these measures.

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