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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 114

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Constitution, Elections and Ethics (originally sponsored by Representatives Fisch, Schoon, Gallagher, Long, J. Williams, Winsley, P. King, Tanner, Isaacson, van Dyke, Dobbs, May, Fisher and Silver)

Read first time 2/6/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to official election materials; adding a new section to chapter 29.85 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 29.85 RCW to read as follows:

          Official election materials produced at public expense shall not be altered and subsequently used in political campaigns as to favor an individual candidate or candidates or a ballot proposition.  This section does not apply to the use of any reproduction of such official election materials if (1) the reproduction is not produced at public expense and (2) the reproduction does not bear any language or device indicating that it or the original from which it is made is an official publication of any jurisdiction of the state.  Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.